Never had an unexpected squall line hit? I did recently. Clear weather then in the span of minutes all the trees on my street where down then clear weather again. I will take his word for it.
Always enjoy and learn from your videos Julien. Good stuff! Where we camp out, we can not cook inside the tent due pesky bears looking for a free meal!
You do a nice job on your video, and explained very well, that tent is the cat's pajama. Thank you for sharing. 72'
Had several surprises over a period of about 40 years of hiking/camping. Couple of the most memorable were an actual blizzard with 40 mph gust dump 2ft of snow on us in 1984, and a sever thunderstorm that dropped and EF3 tornado less than half mile from us back in 1997. I just didn't see anything that could really be called a "storm" in the video.
I love adventures like this. Thanks for sharing. It's not always about the radio, is it? When I go out into the wild I choose to arm myself with a radio, a small minimalistic set up in radio gear and camp gear. It's fun to get by with so little.
If it's the Nortent Gamme 4 as suspected, at just north of 1,100 $US it better be a helluva lot more than just the cat's pajamas.
Yikes, I will stick with my Colman canvas tent I bought in 1978, Has floor, keeps rain out, keeps wind away, and has a flap to setup a wood stove, What does the Nortent Gamme 4 due that my old Colman does not do??
It's a modern day tent made with modern day materials, so far starters its gonna be a HELL of a lot lighter than your old canvas tent. This is a cconsiderable issue if you're backpacking in several miles, instead of just setting up camp next to your car (ie, "glamping"). Score 1 to modern tent design. Second, I would recon that tent is made from Gortex or some other similar vapor permeable material. Which means that water vapor will pass through the material rather than forming condensation on the inside of the tent walls. If not a Gortex material, then it utilizes a separate waterproof rain fly to shed rain while still allowing condensation to escape. Score 2. Anyone who's ever been in a canvas tent when it rains, knows you absolutely CANNOT touch the walls or roof, otherwise the surface tension of the material will be broken and water will seep through wherever you touched canvas. Which pretty much makes it worthless. Don't have that issue with a modern nylon tent. Score 3. Old canvas STINKS! You roll up your tent and put it away even slightly damp, and it will stink of mildew for the rest of eternity. That's a real joy. Although you should never put a tent away wet or damp, a modern nylon one is more forgiving, and nylon doesn't retain scents. Score 4. The dome shape of that tent resists the wind forces in a storm and the weight of any accumulated snowfall better than ANY conventional A-frame or box tent design. Nothing worse than having your tent collapse or blow away in the middle of the night while you sleep. Score 5. Bonus: did you even look at the video; did you even notice the tent? If you did, you would have seen that it was equipped with a stovepipe flap in the center of the dome, and in fact they had a wood burning stove set up and burning in the video. Using the same wood-burning stove "technology", under the same weather conditions, the modern material tent will thaw out and dry out faster than an equal sized canvas tent, which is helpful if you want to break camp and move. Frozen tents don't fold up very easily; wet or frozen tents weigh more than when they're dry. Bonus point six. By my tally, that is a score of 6 to zero in favor of modern material tents over archaic canvas ones. Looks to me like it does LOT more than your ol Coleman tent. I know which one I'd want if my life deepened on it.
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all good. #7, perhaps related to #5, old designs did not handle the wind, it was like sleeping in a kite! so loud, would drive me insane . new designs are so much nicer. #8, old canvas takes 2 people a long time to set up, a coupke dozen stakes, lots of heavy poles, no thanks.
Oh the joy of joining a scout troop on a military base. Those tents were all canvas and the smell was forever etched into my brain.
Julian, I always enjoy your vids. Keep it up. I love portable work too, but do a bit more glamping than you, unless I am hunting with the nephews... then it's Wall tent time... they laugh and marvel at having comms in remote Nevada. 73 Tony
