Pictures of your tents.

[andrew_s]

by the side of Loch Sunart, a mile or two west of Salen

[Gattonero]

A couple of shots of last year's short trips. This year will start soon, I have mudguards now!

Wild camping before reaching l'Eroica Britannia, found a very quiet spot (this is a cheap, but worth every pound, North Ridge tent)


Cotswolds, close to the Chedworth roman villa (the tent is a Tarptent Contrail that a friend lend me, is a very good a light tent)


New Forest on Easter Bank Holiday, used a 6x8 tarp with the bike as support. It works great!

[phil parker]

Hilleberg Nammatj 2; Carlisle, Mar 2015:

[whizzzz]

My Vaude Mark L 2, good for One and half ( as shown ) but tight for two. In deepest Dorset last year, preparing us both for some cycle touring this year.

[whizzzz]

My Vaude Mk2 with tarp-

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Ooo, thats a smart idea ! And easy to do with the external poles. Mind if I pinch that idea ?

[Sweep]

New Forest on Easter Bank Holiday, used a 6x8 tarp with the bike as support.]

How can you be sure that the bike doesn't fall over and skewer you? I trust you have that sorted. I am genuinely interested - sounds like a great system if you can make it work.

[pjclinch]

New Forest on Easter Bank Holiday, used a 6x8 tarp with the bike as support.]

How can you be sure that the bike doesn't fall over and skewer you? I trust you have that sorted. I am genuinely interested - sounds like a great system if you can make it work.

Looks like the bike is upside down, so a secure tripod of bars and saddle, and the tarp will tend to hold it in place.

[Gattonero]

New Forest on Easter Bank Holiday, used a 6x8 tarp with the bike as support.]

How can you be sure that the bike doesn't fall over and skewer you? I trust you have that sorted. I am genuinely interested - sounds like a great system if you can make it work.

As long as the tarp is picthed well tight, the wheels are in the apex and the bars on the ground, is actually far more stable than using trekking poles/etc.
But as first try, I went belt&braces and used some thin paracord, this was actually overkill


This is the first night, I admit there wasn't a lot of space although when I'm camping I do expect some compromises. On the second night I left one side of the tarp longer, that gave a lot of room.

The system works, especially if one can shape the tarp so it does match the saddle&bars height (in my case, taller at the front for the saddle, and shallow at the rear for the bars). Pre-cut paracord with simple tension blocks would save a lot of time, than doing as I did it took a good 15 minutes. But it was a lovely evening so I didn't bother breaking any records

[rualexander]

How was the SOL emergency bivvy bag? I have one but never used it yet, was there a lot of condensation from it?

[Gattonero]

How was the SOL emergency bivvy bag? I have one but never used it yet, was there a lot of condensation from it?

No condensation at all!
That thing is a staple in my bag. Really really useful.

I've now discarded that cheap sleeping bag and upgraded to an EE Revelation sleeping quilt, that is quite warm in itself and I haven't used it with the SOL bivvy.
The only time I've used it since, was in Cotswolds on a cold night. I've made myself a very lightweight synthetic sleeping quilt (with Climashield Apex) and with that I had to use the SOL bivvy when the temperature plummeted to zero. Again, no condensation overnight altough I felt too warm at some point.

[Scottishgaucho]

Glen Falloch in the 90's....mine is the one with the yellow door. A Pheonix Phreerunner made from Goretex and a great one man tent for touring.

[Kapalasa]

My Vango Banshee 200. Picture taken at Wagendrift Nature Reserve, Estcourt, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

[randonneur]

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FairyDown Tent in use in a Finnish Forest, the only suitable place to set up being on the track.
However no vehicles passed in the night

[phil parker]

Hilleberg Soulo - coping very well against a strong wind in Shetland!

[phil parker]

Hilleberg Atko - not coping very well against a strong wind in Shetland April 2016!