Aug 25 2007
Clearance tent, Part 2
I decided to try setting up the tent in the back yard today. Took me over an hour due to not being able to get it raised in the center. The instructions states it requires 2 people for assembly. A cardboard box placed inside of the tent raised the center enough that I was able to assemble it by myself. Thats what took up half of the hour, fighting with it unsuccessfully until I stuck the box in there. Only thing I didn’t assemble on it was the fly cover (for rain protection) and the stakes in the ground since I knew it was about to come back down anyway. The floor of it is pretty thin and cheap but thats nothing a tarp placed on the ground under the tent first cant fix. Maybe I’ll line the inside with a tarp as well to protect the floor.
Only real problem with it that I have found is the carrying bag. They must have literally vacuumed out the air from it to fit it into a cardboard box, and then they stuffed the cardboard box into the carrying case so there is no way you can ever put the tent back into that carrying case and be able to zip it shut. I will use the tent case for clothing or something else and get a large, used piece of luggage from a thrift store to store the tent in.