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The issue I have is that one of the split poles is shaped (the one in the pic). Vaude do replacement sections online for £6.50 but they're all straight. IME pole sections that start straight acquire a bit of a bend with time just by using them. As long as it's not a dramatic curve my guess is it'll...

If you've got a cracked pole you've found at home base, replace the pole (or at least the cracked section). For a field repair, anything goes, but a sleeve you can slide over the pole and is long enough to support on both sides of the joint (because poles almost always go at the joins) is the usual ...

Most Scottish councils can't enforce parking regulations at present. So additional restrictions, without change in enforcement, won't make any difference. The problem is that most parking issues require a police officer or parking warden to enforce them. Those are Police service matters. But, with ...

It wasn't a problem after "gooping", but it is something you needed to be aware of before setting off into the back of beyond. It took a couple of hours with the thing spread over furniture in my conservatory, and I only declared it "done" after a trial with a hose pipe in the g...

I have a lightly used Spacepacker in the attic. Nice materials and very handy double entry with storage areas. But for a tall bloke a bit short, leaving inner fabric inches from your nose. And the outer leaked like a sieve from the central seam when new. Apparently they didn't feel it was their job...

Rubble sacks are good, for years I used F&T (back when F&T wasn't a bit of Sports Direct) neoprene taped seam liners which were great and I still use. I started using dry bags for when I was paddling when you do need that extra level of waterproofing. For backpacking/cycle touring I like to ...

As a Spacepacker owner I'd say the most obvious plus-point of the hoop is that the poles come down to the ground at the outside edge of each porch, rather than right in the middle of the inner door. This makes it easier to get in and out and faff about with stuff in the porch (away from low level I'...

But with the Hubba Hubba, can't you pitch the fly only? Fast and Light I think they call it. But if you do then you can't (sensibly, at least) put up the inner, and you can't dismount the inner as a first thing when taking it down. It's better than not having the option, but I'd sooner have a dismo...

But with the Hubba Hubba, can't you pitch the fly only? Fast and Light I think they call it. But if you do then you can't (sensibly, at least) put up the inner, and you can't dismount the inner as a first thing when taking it down. It's better than not having the option, but I'd sooner have a dismo...

All-in-one/fly first pitching and damp inner tents... My old Saunders is a fly-first pitch. You start by pitching the outer, get inside and hang the inner. To strike it, start by taking the inner down, from the inside, out of the rain, and of course you can pack it separately to the fly. My Hille's ...

(The Hubba Hubba can go up without the inner using a footprint to anchor the corners, or you could rig up some cords to do the job. Without those you can pitch it fly first... but it's a dreadful faff Not so much fly first as fly only. I don't see how you could add the inner without taking the tent...

Whatever you get just make sure that its not one where you put the inner up first like my Robens Lodge 2, as if its raining it fills the inside before you can get the outer in position. I don't personally like inner-first pitches but the number of happy users, including in rainy places, suggests it...

Sweep wrote:But how are sheep likely to react to a tent?

Leave well alone or approach and do something daft?

They might munch grass right up to the edge of the fly but nothing worse than that IME (a fair few campsites shared with them over the years)

Pete.

Thanks Ian. No deal breakers in what you say so I suppose I still need the lottery win...

Pete.

As an aside and maybe relevant to the OP, question: When I got my replacement, a Hilleberg Rogen 2, I did feel the inner bottom was a bit thin and wondered if I should have purchased a footer at the same time. I didn't have any problems with it but am now wondering if for tours beyond a few days if...