How to pack a camping tent? A complete guide to camping equipment
Camping tents are popular outdoor activity tents. Camping has become a leisure and fashionable activity and is increasingly loved and sought after by young people. In summer, setting up a tent at the beach or in the mountains, blowing in the sea breeze, chatting with friends, barbecuing and drinking wine is also a kind of happiness and romance. In terms of categories, camping tents mainly include: bracket camping tents (also called ordinary tourist tents), military inflatable tourist tents (inflatable frame camping tents). Compared with ordinary bracket tents, they are lighter, faster to erect, and the product is more stable. It has the characteristics of high stability, strong shear diversion and wind power, no rainwater retention, small size after folding, and convenience and portability. It has the characteristics of high strength, good stability, small volume after folding, and easy transportation and portability.
The tense life makes people yearn for a free life, so camping and free travel have become the choices of today's young people. A perfect camping trip requires not only a detailed plan, but also a tent that gives us safety for the night. However, many friends do not know much about how to store camping tents. With such questions, today I will introduce to you some relevant information about how to store camping tents and the selection of camping tent construction locations. Maybe it will be helpful to you. oh!
The unique features of camping tents
The camping tent is a slightly more advanced tent among tents. It has functions such as sun protection, wind protection, heat insulation, rain protection and breathability. It is a must-have for everyone's wild camping. Without a perfect camping tent, the fun will be much inferior. In order to adapt to different uses, there are many styles of camping tents, but common camping tents can be divided into five types: triangular tents, dome-shaped tents, hexagonal tents, dome-shaped tents and ridge-shaped tents. And the selectivity of camping tents is also different in different situations. The family type and mountaineering type we usually use are different, because mountaineering is lighter than the family type. The camping tent also has other great functions. For example, it can be equipped with a door shed, which is very good for cooking or expanding the space to provide living space for one more person. Can become an important type of tent, camping tent can be said to have special skills, it is the first choice for camping.
How to use a camping tent
In terms of structure, camping tents mainly include triangular (also known as herringbone), dome-shaped (also known as yurt-shaped) and house-shaped (also known as family-shaped). In terms of structure, it is divided into single-layer structure, double-layer structure and composite structure. In terms of space size, it is divided into two-person type, three-person type and multi-person type. Most triangular camping tents have a double-layer structure and are relatively complex to support. They have better wind resistance, warmth retention, and rainproof properties, making them suitable for mountain climbing adventures. The dome-shaped camping tent is simple to set up, easy to carry, light in weight, and suitable for general leisure travel.
1. Address selection
Site selection for building a tent, as the name suggests, means choosing a suitable place to build the tent. So what kind of place is suitable? The first priority must be flat and open terrain. Due to the flat terrain, it is easy to fix the tent. The second step is to choose a valley area with no wind, because strong winds will blow the tent over, and it will be extremely cold inside the tent at night. The most important point is that the tent cannot be built on the downstream beach of the river, and of course it cannot be too far away from the river. Because the lower reaches of the river are prone to flood attacks, the distance is too far and it is inconvenient to use water.
2. Inspection of tent equipment
Pour out the supplies collected in the bag and look at each part one by one. In order to facilitate the removal of the account and avoid losing things, it should be recorded first.
3． Laying floor mats
After the floor mat is laid, fix the four corners with nails. If you are in a humid place, lay the mat first and then lay the mat on top.
4. Raise the pillars and swing out the main rope
Pass the bottom of the pillar through the holes at both ends of the ground pad, and at the same time, pass the top of the upper part of the pillar through the holes in the two pillars of the curtain pillar, and pull up the left and right main ropes to prevent the left and right tilting. In this way, the main shape of the tent is formed.
5. Adjust the main rope and pull up the corner rope and waist rope
Use the branch ropes attached to the main rope to adjust the shape of the tent and stand the two pillars upright on the ground. Secondly, use the support ropes to adjust the corner ropes and waist ropes to give the tent the shape it needs.
6. Fix the wall
Connect the tent base fabric, floor mat and the lower part of the wall.
After the tent is set up, a ditch can be dug nearby. Now, we have to take an attitude of protecting nature and no longer dig ditches unless we are in a water depression.
How to pack a camping tent
In fact, it is simpler, because we already have installation experience, and we will be familiar with it a lot. Remove the ground nails, remove the rope from the outer tent, then remove the outer tent from the inner tent and fold it. Then slowly take out the fiber tube from the tent hole, then pull out the fiber pole from the tent tube, and slowly restore the tent pole to its section-by-section state. Finally, pack away the inner tent and the accessories to prevent them from being left behind. Just put all the items in the tent bag without missing anything.
Camping tent troubleshooting
1. How to bend and straighten tent poles
Answer: Plug one end of the bent pole, then fill the inside with fine yarn from the other end. After it is filled, it will be solid, then plug the opening, and gently use a wooden hammer (stick) on the bend (V or U). Knock and pour sand into the pipe step by step. Repeat the above steps until it is straight. Use gentle force. The wind resistance strength of the straightened pole is reduced. You can find a slightly thicker pipe and put it here to increase the strength. If it is troublesome to attach the rubber band during operation, you can remove it and perform the above operations again. Usually, an aluminum or iron pipe should be placed at the most stressed part of the tent pole to increase its strength. If it’s fiberglass, use a hot hair dryer to straighten it or go to Sanfu to get it replaced, which costs 5 yuan.
2. How to fill the tent with sand
The purpose of adding sand inside is to prevent the aluminum tube from becoming flat and causing dead bends. Stuffing bicycle steel bars into the stressed aluminum tube is also a way to increase the strength.
3. Tent packing problem
Some people think of tent packing as a trivial matter, but in fact it involves the interaction between equipment manufacturers and users. If you often watch videos of outdoor activities, you will notice carefully that their tents are all in backpacks, not externally attached to backpacks like ours. If you use tents made abroad, you will find that they are different from those made in China. The biggest difference between the tents is that the camp poles and tents are packaged separately. The tent is folded so that its size matches the inner diameter of the backpack, so that the tent can be placed inside the backpack, while the camp poles are inserted on both sides of the backpack. , this is a foreign designer who considers the user's concept. In the past, aluminum frame backpacks with external frames had little problem in tent packing, but now the mainstream straight backpacks with internal frames are difficult to carry with domestically designed tent packaging methods. , it is not unchangeable. As long as you give up the limitations that the original manufacturer designed for consumers, you can naturally carry it very comfortably.
The method is to discard the original tent jacket and use a sleeping bag cover or a sleeping bag waterproof cover to hold the inner and outer tents. This way the tent will not appear outside the backpack, and the length of the tent will be less when walking long distances or walking on intermediate mountains. The trouble with the long and wide backpack is that the backpacker hangs the tent vertically on the backpack, which looks like a meat dumpling, and places it horizontally on the backpack, and is afraid of hitting a tree trunk or fallen wood.
Summary: The above is the relevant introduction to how to store a camping tent and the complete guide to camping equipment. I hope it can help friends who have needs in this regard! For more relevant information, please continue to pay attention to our website, more exciting content will be presented in the future.