I first bought the tent in 2001 in advance of my first ever backpacking trip to South America. On that trip I was convinced I was going to be camping all over the place but ended up mailing home the tent in about week 3 having never used it. I'd used it occasionally since usually for weekend trips to Algonquin park or the like.
This time would be different. Pirogue trips down the river and soutbound down the coast, trekking in the national parks, even though it's largely unnecessary due to the (so far at least) widespread availability of camping gear for hire, it's nice to have your own stuff and it looks pretty cool too if I do say so myself.
As it turns out I've used it about 11 times or about 1/3 or the time which is not too bad. With more to come as I head away from the coast towards the national parks.
The big questions were: would I remember how to set it up? and how long would it take?
The answers, yes. And see for yourself:
My fastest time so far 8:35 and the longest nearly 17 mins due to some pesky wind that picked up near the end of the day. *
Other People's Photos
Well what can you say? If you want to be in any photos, sometimes you have to take a chance that they are not complete idiots. The above is a photo of me smiling sitting in front of my newly setup tent on the sandy banks of the river just before sunset.
*It is possible to embed the video in the blog but as i'd already uploaded it to youtube (took about 2hrs) before I found out that the blog does not support you tube. It's on the side video bar though.
1 comment:
great tent video. nice work. can't really see the beard in the tent video though. need to incorporate that more next time.
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