My tents. Tent camp: New knowledge and active vacation in nature in a tent camp Double and quadruple

Most of the myths about tent camps and campaigns are created alarmed mothers, never went hiking. Typically, these submissions are based on data more than thirty years ago, on the stories of grandfathers and grandmothers and have little in common with reality. You should not deprive the child of an interesting and useful rest just because in your imagination in the forest for each tree a bear hide, better read this article and then decide.

Myth number 1.
Only experienced tourists can go to the camp camp, newcomers there have nothing to do there

Rather, the opposite. Multiple tourists are planning complicated hiking and look a little coughing. For them it is a party, relaxes, bard festivals, for beginners - a good opportunity for the first time to live in a tent, sleep in a sleeping bag, go to a small hike, cook dinner at the fire.

Myth number 2.
To go to a tent camp and go hiking, you need to buy a bunch
special gear, which is not then useful

Of course, it can be so, but it is worth it to choose the camp more closely. There is a lot of turbases where it is possible to take rase equipment, and some organizations generally include equipment rental in the cost of a ticket. I arrived, got a backpack, a sleeping bag, a tent, paddle, catamaran and ahead! Later, if you understand unconditionally: "This holiday is mine!", Of course, it is quietly to acquire your own equipment, but for the first time to litter the house and empty the wallet is completely optional.

Myth number 3.
In a tent camp can not look good, we must go there,
Dressed in old clothes "on the emission"

Oh, if you really think so, then you are very behind your life! Today, tourists are the biggest fashionists! There is a huge tourist fashion industry, network shops, Internet sites and other, other. Clothing for relaxation with the mark "Outdoor" is very practical, insanely convenient and attractive. If you do not know what a Gortex, membrane, Polyartek, Vibram, then you lost a lot! This is what helps people do not mock, do not blurry, do not look at the same place, then many people cannot break up with even in urban conditions.

Myth number 4.
Sleep on earth, and it is harmful

Tourists learn primarily take care of themselves for ... future hikes. They do not want to lose their health, and the organizers of tent camps - customers. Therefore, between the traveler and the land, it is usually several mess, of which the most important is a tourist rug. It is made of modern thermal insulation materials and perfectly protects from the cold. Of course, no one cancels the fact that the tent must be set with the mind that it is sometimes useful to clear the place from the cones, sometimes you have to do drainage grooves, all these wisdom you will learn gradually from more experienced people. But, you have come to a tent camp to make comfort and health benefits!

Myth number 5.
Will have to carry gravity, and this will affect the spine

First, not every hike is a constant carrying of gravity. For example, in a water hike, everything carries water, and therefore, the fans of water hikes - the vast majority. And a person to start in his physical form is better than the water. Secondly, if we are talking about a properly organized tent camp, from which you can go into short travel, then everything is much easier. For example, some of their things can be left on the basis. In the preparation for the campaign, workouts are carried out, the muscles are stronger. The loads increase gradually (in our "Great Adventure" guys go first in a simple day trip). Plus, anyone analyzes the physical training of participants and with the mind distributes social equipment.

The journey allows the young man to better know himself, his character, its abilities. After all, during the campaign there is no pretendation, there are nowhere to hide - you are real.

Myth number 6.
Will you go dirty all the time

You want - you will certainly! And in the city with the same ease as in the forest. The rule is one everywhere: if you are not afraid, you go dirty, if you don't clean your teeth - they are yellow. Do not argue: in the field conditions you will need to spend a little more effort. But believe me, boil the excess water bowler in the evening - this is not a superload. But then in the apartment you like a child will rejoice in the jet of hot water from under the tap.

Myth number 7.
Tent camp is not for girls

Given all the above, not at all! The girl in the camp is not a woman with a paddle, she can always stay clean, beautiful and fashionable. And keep in mind the real fairy focus The girl can only be here!

Myth number 8.
Tent camp - these are wet legs and eternal colds

Any traveler will prove the opposite. In nature, the body mobilizes, and people are ill less. And having learned in the campaign to dress correctly, to warm and move a lot, you and the city will get sick less.

Myth number 9.
Campground is a cheap holiday

Qualitative rest can not be cheap. The cost of high-quality labor is stacked in the cost of a ticket - instructors that need to be trained, and all the staff; Again, high-quality, modern equipment; implementation of the pedagogical part of the program; Security measures, including satellite communications. You will say, in a tent camp there is no cost of maintaining a large building. Right. But there is another side of the medal: electricity, gas and water are costly more expensive in a tent camp than in buildings connected to existing networks.

Myth number 10.
In the tent camp you will not know anything new, the horizons will not expand

This myth is probably the most common, but at the same time it is easier to debunk. And the point is not that the camp is in a certain amazing place that the child surrounds the virgin nature that there are meaningful pedagogical programs. It is not important. The main thing is that the journey allows the young man to know himself better, its character, its abilities. After all, during the campaign there is no pretendation, there are nowhere to hide - you are real. And, being alone with his "I", you can make a choice - to stay as it was, or change. In a good camp, do not read notations, there are no morals in a good camp, but in various difficult situations experience is acquired and there is a sense of victory, which is so important for a modern teenager.

Summer is a long-awaited time for schoolchildren and headache for parents with a solution to the question of how to arrange a productive and memorable child's vacation. The campground was created to ensure that the children spend time in the fresh air with benefit and interesting.

How is the rest?

The organizers choose in advance place on a spacious meadow. Polyana is often selected, which is located near the reservoir and forests. Children's tent camp can be stationary and portable.

If the rest is planned with in different locality, the town breaks the guys with the help of instructors as it moves. Thus, stationary buildings are not built.

When the rest is scheduled in one place, the campground is broken in advance. On the territory they put freestyle and portable kitchens. In this case, children are located only on one meadow, and campaigns can go for a few hours near the camp.

In one tent there is 2-4 people, depending on its size. They are installed close to each other. They are stealing soft inflatable mattresses and put tents of instructors and counselors are located next to the children. At night, in turn, adults are on duty by the fire and monitor the territory not to enter out of foreign people and did not leave her children.

Tent camp for children: entertainment

Throughout the rest, the guys are constantly engaged in developing classes and games. Creative contests and sporting events are held daily. Children participate in concert programs and play moving games.

During the period in the camp, the guys may be trained:

• ecology;
• variety of flora and fauna;
• classes in the team;
• the history of the native land;
• musical skills (playing guitar and songs under it).

In modern times, the biggest plus on vacation is the lack of televisions and computers. Thus, children understand that you can do many interesting things, without having a number of their gadgets.

What do children learn?

The tent camp is not only designed to rest guys, but also serves as a place to purchase certain skills that will be useful in the future life. By sending a child here, parents should understand that no one will not be here to feed the socks from the spoon. Of course, the staff strictly monitors the discipline and security of children, but the child must be serviced independently.

Such skills are now very lacking modern children. Parents are more and more, in their essence, suffer from a hyperopus, and the younger generation is only in minus. Teens do not know how to erase their belongings and can not make elementary actions in the kitchen.

In the camp, the guys understand for several days that moms are not near, and they begin to care for themselves. Thus, responsibility for itself increases several times in one shift in nature.

During this time, teenagers learn to care and help younger children. In such an atmosphere and conditions, the desire to be in demand comes very quickly. Children are cleaned in their tents and around them. They also learn to find a common language in a team with other guys, regardless of the nature and habits of each.

Tourist development

The campground is the development of specific skills. The ability for any weather is toggave a fire or equip the shelter - such classes are held regularly. Among the older children are installed on the kitchen duty. Girls and boys learn to clean potatoes and clean the dishes.

In their free time, the guys with experienced instructors are engaged in tourist oriented. The training program includes:

• the ability to use the card and compass;
• overcoming the bar of obstacles;
• providing first aid.

Evenings, counselors are breeding a big bonfire. Near it all residents of the camp are going and have fun. Most of all the guys are remembered:

• guitar songs;
• collective games;
• scenes and contests.

On hot days, the guys bathe in the water bodies and take sunbathing. Hanks are held daily.

Safety of children

Summer tent camp in his staff has only trained workers. People work with pedagogical education. On the territory of the rest around the clock there is a medical professional.

On the perimeter, the camp has vivid symbols that indicate that children are here. Beaches specially cooked:

• shore sandy and clean;
• the bottom is removed from Korg and Glass;
• the zone that is allowed for swimming is fenced with bugs.

All adults have round-the-clock access to communication. At the right moment, ambulance or other services may be caused.

In the dining room food is checked for fitness several times a day. Products are imported only from establishments that have permits for their supply to children's institutions. Children from 10 to 17 years old are allowed to the camp only if there is a medical permit for this type of rest.

In addition to teachers, professional athletes and instructors from various tourist organizations work here.

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Spacious camping tents for family holidays

If you dream about a comfortable holiday with a family of 5-6 people for one or two weeks, then you need to get a camping tent. For this, large tents are suitable: Victoria 5, Victoria 10, Vega 5, Maxima 6 or Macon 6. Such a tent is a real house in nature. In such a camping tent you will find large spacious bedrooms up to 9 square meters, a hall for dining room and kitchen, high ceilings, comfortable inlets, full protection against wind, rain and insects. For a single family or a small company, the MINNesota 3 and Minnesota 4. Tent will be with a slight weight and dimensions, they have a significant internal volume and high ceilings in 195 and 205 cm, respectively.

If you are traveling a family or a small company and do not stay for a long time in one place, then the tents of the CD series of CD-Camping is what you need. The tents provide a comfortable placement of 4 people, quickly installed, occupy a small area and perfectly protected from bad weather. Models of Grand Tower 4, Nevada 4 have big lip and bedrooms for the whole family. Indiana 4 and Macon 4 tents consist of two bedrooms, each of which is designed for two people, and ideal for the placement of two pairs or parents with children.

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Shower or toilet tent

Problems with the search for the toilet can be solved in advance by purchasing a Sanitary Zone tent. This is a special tent under the toilet or shower. With her you can forget about dirty public toilets, as well as use this tent to organize a shower in the campaign.

Small size and low weight allow you to use this tent both in stationary camps and in mobile tent towns. Due to the additional sealing of the seams by a shrink tape, a tent can also be used as a shower.

Tourist frame awning

An excellent addition to the campsite tent is a skeleton awning China House or Summer HOUSE. It can organize a kitchen, a dining room, a cabin company. The awning protects perfectly from bad weather and mosquitoes. Inside the award, you can place the table and several chairs or, if necessary, rugs and sleeping bags.

Tourist tents for hiking with backpack

For this type of rest, light and compact tents are needed for 2-3 people. Perfect for hiking There will be models, Rondo 2 Plus, Rondo 3 Plus, Rondo 4 Plus, Maverick 2 Plus, Maverick 3 Plus, Karok 2 and Tunnel 3. Scout is a simple and lightweight tent with one entrance, Rondo - a classic design tent with two tambura, Tunnel 3 is a very popular half-glass tent in Scandinavia with a big tambour.

You can buy alexika double tourist tents in Alexika online store.

For cycling or vodnikov A tent is needed with a big tambour. Perennial bestsellers here are Tower 3 and Tower 4 models. These models have large tambura, in which you can add bulk equipment and luggage.

More alexika triple tourist tents you will find in the catalog.

It is very convenient to sleep or read in a tent. But what to do when it rains, and so I want to sit like a cheerful company by the fire? The awning will save and from the rain, and from the Sun, and in general will become an indispensable thing in the campaign. Alexika awnings have different sizes from 3x3 m to 5x6 m and are the best on the market. We advise you to purchase metal prefabricated racks to the tents.

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Extreme rest with a tent

Basic mountain camp, polar expedition or any place that requires extra-class equipment. For example, such as the legendary Mirage 4 tent tested in multi-month low temperatures, storm winds and a local end of the world. With such a tent, you will forget about the problems of choosing a parking lot, the season of travel or weather conditions.

Matrix 3 and Storm 2 assault tents are a reliable all-season tents for the aspirations and mountain hikes of high categories of complexity, designed for 2-3 people.

The tent is a house in the campaign. Not only comfort, but also safety depends on its reliability and convenience. It was for this reason that the Italian tent Ferrino has become its first signature foreign trade in my tourist equipment, which, thanks to its classical universal design, optimal dimensions and the highest quality of production (then Made in Italy!) It served 15 years (! !!).

At the moment I have five tourist tents! Twin weighing 4.1 kg for climbing climbing, weighing 2.2 kg for mountain trips, lightweight 1.3 kg for trekking, as well as a ultra-easy three-seater weighing 1.8 kg for family hikes and a single ego tent weighing 800 grams. I will try to tell about each.

THE NORTH FACE MOUNTAIN 25

Purpose: 2-seater 4-season assault tent. My most serious tent!

Strengths : incredibly strong, warm and comfortable. Strength is achieved due to the design of four (!) Arcs from durable but light aluminum and a large number of conveniently adjustable detensions. The tent is warm due to the very dense tissue of the "inner" tent. But the main thing in this tent is convenience and comfort of living. It is ensured due to a large number of pockets in the inner tent, two inputs, two tamboras (one of which is full, and the second is very small), as well as the presence of a simply fantastic ventilation system (a comfortable temperature inside the tent can be ensured by almost any weather and in any situation. It is hot - you can open end-to-end windows, located under the dome of the tent and duplicated by the grid, it is possible to fully close everything. I think it is very important and use this opportunity constantly, because good ventilation is a guarantee of good sleep and rest. In general, the tent is really very comfortable. In it really can live a week and not to bathe! It is also great that the design allows you to install only the inner tent if the weather is good. That is how we did on Elbrus in the days when there were no precipitation!

Weak sides : In the tent "forwarding", the assault class would be useful to the skirt, at least on the vestibule, so that the snow would not bloom, as in Kamchatka (in later versions, this flaw is corrected!). I would also like that the second tambour would be slightly more spacious, and not just "output + 30 cm space under shoes." Then it was possible to cook and arrange a kitchen in one, and through the second - walk / go out. And of course, the weight of the tent in 4 kilos is a lot for two-room. But, on the other hand, miracles do not happen - it is still very spacious and functional, and not "minimalistic."

Characteristics of the Tent The North Face Mountain 25 Sample 2007:

• Shopping year: 2007
• Capacity: 2 people (Valet is 3 !!)
• Frame: Aluminum
• Number of inputs / Tamboors: 2
• Weight: 4,1 kg
• Manufacturer Website: ThenorthFace.com
• Tent The North Face Mountain 25 in the store Sport Marathon

The North Face Mountain 25 tent is so "harsh" and powerful that I went with her all three times - in the traverse Elbrus with overnight on the saddle, hiking on the volcanoes of Kamchatka and in a family trip to the Bzerpinsky cornice, when I just needed all three of mine Tents to accommodate six adults and two children. Below are some photos from these hiking and climbing:

Camp "3700"
North Elbrus

Remove the camp
Kamchatka, VLK.Tolbachchik

In Polyana Emanuel
Elbrus, July 2012

At the top of the PLK. Plind Tobach,
Kamchatka

Camp on breepin cornice
Krasnaya Polyana

Fuck!
North Elbrus

General view with an awning and without

Tent dimensions

As you probably already understood, the tents of this class are not suiced. Professional brands stand today from 40 to 80 thousand rubles! In addition to The North Face Mountain 25 Among other double double-layer assault climbing tents, pay attention to the American Marmot Thor 2, Swedish Hilleberg Tarra or Italian Ferrino Snowbound 2. If you need a 3-seater - Look the North Face VE 25, Norwegian Bergans Helium 3, Italian Ferrino Snowbound 3, Swedish Hilleberg Saivo or Patriotic Alexika Matrix 3. Among 4-seater - Domestic Alexika Mirage 4, TNF BASTION 4. Five people will be the best version of the American MSR StormKing tent. For those who are seriously concerned about weight loss manufacturers make one-layer assault tents. In addition to the "Bibler" known to all, there is a "semi-liter" dial with a removable Marmot Hammer 2P tambour weighing 2.2 kg and approximately similar design The North Face Assault 2!

Big Agnes Blacktail 2

Purpose: Classic double tourist tent. The most universal of all my tents. If I had no opportunity to have a lot of tents, I would bought one such a plan.

In the campaign in Switzerland in the summer of 2015, I still died, my favorite Ferrino Movin 2000 tent (description on the Equipment page, used earlier), which served faithfully for more than 15 years, since 1998. The tent lasted 24 campaigns and 154 hiking days! When choosing a replacement for this tent, I came to the conclusion that I want to replace it with two tents: easier "treshka" for family campaigns and "two-plate" for full-fledged mountain trips. Requirements for the "two-room" I had such:

• Strong frame. The frame of the Mountain Hangs Tent must necessarily be with a full-fledged classic cross-stop of two arcs in the center of the tent (the so-called X-frame), and not a fashionable Z-frame, which is easier, but the wind is worse.
• Strong fabrics. Wind and rain in the mountains are much stronger than on the plain. Requirements for the materials of the Mountain Tent Elevated. In my opinion, the density of the awning should be at least 30-40d, the bottom is not less than 70d.
• Two tambura. Believe me, two tambura is convenient. Very comfortably! And in the end - comfortable. And in the mountains we go to rest, and not suffer. Those who deny the need for two tambours for a double tent usually refer to weight gain. But damn, I am ready to enjoy the additional two-three hundred grams (100-150 grams per brother) Weight for convenience!
• Accuracy color. Specific requirement! In fact, I always said that the mountain tent should be as bright as possible, ideally - orange. This is the element of the so-called "passive safety". A bright tent is much easier to find. It does not matter who - you, returning to the fog and bad weather from the radial or, God forbid, rescuers. But there is one thing: a bright tent is noticeable to other people, including the county of the Caucasian biosphere reserve, hiking for which I love to walk. And although there are a number of absolutely legal routes in the reserve (my guide to the Red Polyana), very sometimes I want to go on violation! In general, I realized that I need not a bright tent.

After purchasing a triple tent for hiking by the whole family, I realized that I would like to take the same company a second tent. By design tent Big Agnes Blacktail 2 - Classic! Reliable and sustainable classic frame with crosshair, optimal weight / reliability / durability Materials, two beams on sides, strong fabrics, eco-friendly, good weight / price ratio. Someone will say that weight is almost 2 kg - it is a lot for two-room. But pay attention to what strong materials are used in it? I think the tent will live very long!

C closed tamburas

Inner tent

Separate installation only awning

Paul sizes tent

Tent height

Characteristics:

• Year of Shopping: 2015
• Capacity: 2 people (Valet will go and three !!)
• Frame: Aluminum
• Number of inputs / Tamboors: 2
• Full weight: 2.2 kg
• Price in 2016 - 19 000 rubles

I have this tent not so long ago, therefore I have not visited such a large number of hiking. However, in two campaigns on Abkhazia (a campaign on a small rice and campaign on the Arabica Plateau), hike and in Iceland she was as impossible by the way! More detailed review will make it later. Now I can note two small drawbacks - the lack of double lightning on the vestibule (and this is very convenient if it is, for additional ventilation you can open zipper in the top of the tambour, which displays condensate from under the awning). Well, the second point - the inner pockets are not so big as I would like and only upstairs. But again, the "Blacktail" series is not the top, but the "classic" series of Big Agnes, and demand from this tent of all the "chips" and the missiles are not true. If it were all, the price of a tent would be significantly higher.

• Manufacturer Website: Bigagnes.com
• Tents Big Agnes in the store Sport Marathon

BIG AGNES SLATER UL2 +

Purpose: Ultrasound Double Three-season tent for spring-autumn hikes

I bought this tent as very light, but at the same time a roomy trip for hiking in Fast & Light format in spring or autumn, when it can be cold and windy. Bribed me one point - with actual three-season (the inner part of the tent is not made of the grid, but from a dense material) the weight of the tent in the full configuration is only 1.3 kg. The tent is planned to be used primarily in spring-autumn campaigns with a fear night temperature near zero and below.

Pros:

• Low weight. Total 1.33 kg for three! -Sone double tent.
• Large inner length. The length of the inner tent is 244 cm (which is why in the title there is a prefix "+"). This is done specifically in order to be in bad weather (snow, blizzard, cold wind) it was possible to store things (backpacks) right in the tent. They really fit in their feet without any problems. And of course, such a tent is perfect for tourists high and very high growth!

Features:

As in all in our life, the consumes of this tent are a direct consequence of her advantages. To reduce weight, designers had to sacrifice some moments.

• The tent is not free-standing ("independent") design. To install it requires fixing delay. For "experienced" tourists, of course, not a problem, because more about ten years ago, we did not know other tents at all). Nevertheless, sometimes it can strain like our first night with this tent in the Bavarian Alps. Then we stood right on the soil-rubble road (the road was traversed with a steep slope and there was simply no other flat sites) and no pegs were included in the ground. I had to climb on the forest in the darkness and look for stones to somehow pull out the delay.
• Entrance to one and from the end (from the head), and not two on the sides, as I love. This is of course much less convenient.
• Despite the large area of \u200b\u200bthe bottom of the tent due to the design features of the internal volume is not so great. The side walls in it are inclined, and not vertical as in classic already the designs of the type "hub-hub".
• Well, the last nuance, which flows out of the three-season destination of this tent - in hot weather in it is stuffy and hot, since the inner tent is not made of the grid, but from an unsuccessful tissue.

So far, the tent visited only the campaign in the Bavarian Alps. A more detailed review will be through the year-two when more statistics are scored.

• Manufacturer Website: Bigagnes.com
• Tents Big Agnes in the store Sport Marathon

Big Agnes Copper Spur UL3

Purpose: Ultra-easy triple tent

Last year, our son turned two years old and I realized that we need a lightweight, but the most comfortable triple tent for our family campaigns in the mountains of the Red Polyana. My old "treshka" Ferrino Movin 2000 sample 1997 was still alive, but did not fully suit me at least three reasons. Firstly, she was heavy - almost 3 kilos per treachery for dad, who to carry out the tray in our time. Secondly, with fig ventilation - in the heat in it it was unrealistic, and in Red Polyana, wherever now live, in the mountains in general, it is usually warm enough. Well, thirdly, she had only one vestibule, which is extremely uncomfortable for family campaigns with a small child!

Long and slowly choosing a tent, and examined, including popular MSR headlocks with us, I stopped at the Copper Spur UL model 3 of the legendary American company Big Agnes, famous for its ultrasound tents. In this tent I liked the following points:

• Incredibly low weight. In our family campaigns, I will have (and already) to carry a lot of equipment on us three, so that every gram now has become important than ever. A BIG AGNES CUPPER SPUR UL3 is one of the easiest three-bedroom design tents today and with two tambura. Here is a review in our blog. Weight in the basic configuration - 1.9 kg. Full weight, including pegs, deceleration and even an additional bottom (not coming in the kit) a little more than two kilograms!
• Spacious and interior dimensions. Family trips are not tin and hardcore "sports campaigns". In a hike with his wife and child, you want a maximum of comfort, and if you have a small child and a girl, then believe me, you will have a bunch of clothes, and all this would be good to place inside the tent. Big Agnes Cupper Spur is just a huge and spacious! You get into it, and I can not believe it! The bottom of the tent - 229 cm (!!), width - 178 cm, and she also has practical vertical side walls. Thanks to all this, the tent is very spacious. Subjectively, compared to the old Ferrino, places in it are twice as much !! If you now consider such a tent indicator as the ratio of the useful inner volume of the tent to its weight, then this indicator is my header almost three (!!!) times better than my old Ferrino! That's what progress means!
• The presence of two tambourov. When with you in the campaign, and even with a small child - two tambours are not a luxury, but practically the need! "Logistics" in a tent with two tambura is incommensurable more convenient and easier: one tambour is used for "kitchen" and storage of things, and the second is for the entry / exit from the tent. This is not just very convenient, but also safely.
• Top of the inner tent from the gridand not from dense fabric. Thanks to this, admire the nature even without catching out of the tent (through a tambour or at all throwing half the upper awning (an unrealistic cool chip of such tents designs !!). Of course, the use of "retina" in the inner tent, and not dense tissue, makes it very less warm. But living in Sochi, we can afford to go to family campaigns in the vicinity of the Red Polyana choosing days with good weather, so I don't need a "warm" tent for these purposes. If you, unlike us, look for a "warm" tent in Which is planning to spend the night at negative temperatures - this tent is not for you.
• Positive design. Purely subjective, I really liked her positive appearance. Sunny tent, joyful, bright! It is very cool. In many tents, feelings, unfortunately, completely different ...

I want to note the following important features of the Big Agnes Copper Spur UL3 tent:

• Not high wind resistance. Tag design Tent - Z-frame with four dents from the ends - does not imply use in the highlands. The wind resistance of the tent is not very high, and take in hiking with the installation of the camps above the forest zone are needed with great care. This is especially true of the double version - Copper Spur UL2. But I took exactly for family campaigns (when you carry everything for three), and with my family we go to the mountains only with a good forecast, so I think that my choice is justified. If you are planning long autonomous hiking in highlands and or in areas with a high probability of tightening bad weather (Kamchatka, Polar Urals, Sayany), this tent is not for you.
• Very subtle materials. The relief of the tent is achieved among the use of very thin materials in its design and especially the day. So from the tent is not designed for those tourists who "apply stronger", because they are always stronger and breaks down .. with this tent, as in fact, and with all ultrasound equipment, you need to go skillfully - to understand how and where to put And do it carefully. If your hands are out of ..., Big Agnes Cupper Spur UL3 does not suit you.
• Additional pegs are required. The pegs in the basic configuration of the tent is not enough to stretch all the decenes, how much is in the tent. I bought four additional cavallers for end trap.
• The tent requires daily drying. The third feature is also associated with the general property of modern ultra-light tents. To ensure waterproof, the tent tent is siliconized. Because of this, the tent relatively badly "breathes", and in the morning collects condensate on the inside of the awning. This feature of tents with siliconized awning requires their hedgehogs of the tent before laying in a backpack. The case, in general, is not at all difficult, and requires an additional ten-fifteen minutes of time (decompose the tent in the sun, to dry, collect) and, in fact, the sun itself (which, unfortunately, does not always happen in the mountains). In this case, in principle, sufficient, as always, simply shake a good awning to shook the moisture drops on the inner surface of the awning.

Taking into account the foregoing, I want to warn from buying this tent of tourists with minimal hiking experience. To fully enjoy the advantages of this tent in the weight and comfort of the internal space, you need to know a lot and be able to ... Be able to correctly choose a place for the tent so that it does not put it with the wind, to know how to put it on this very wind, be able to handle it so that Do not break. If you are an experienced tourist, then for you it is possible the best tent from what is now on the market, because the triple tent with two tambura weighing only 1.8 kg is not a miracle! And for me, this is, as expected when buying, a very light, spacious and comfortable tent for simple trekking and hiking hikes without overnight stays at an altitude or on passes.

On the background of four thousandths of the Alps
Switzerland, July 2015

On Berpino Correspondure
Krasnaya Polyana, July 2015

Inside the tent
Krasnaya Polyana, July 2015

Inner tent

Installation only awning
("The litter" is purchased separately!)

Tent dimensions

Characteristics:

• Year of Shopping: 2015
• Capacity: 3 people (currens enters 4)
• Frame: Aluminum
• Number of inputs / Tamboors: 2
• Weight: 1.8 kg (!!!)
• Price in 2016 - 34 900 rubles

P.S. Immediately after the purchase, I was a little invested the money to the tent pleased me more and longer. Namely:

• Made an extra bottom of the aluminized savage. Opened (resolved seams, it turned out 1: 1). It only seems that additional, the second bottom in the tent is some kind of unreal hemorrhage. In fact, it is very clever! For, in addition to additional protection of the bottom of the tent from the cuts, you get the complete absence of condensate on the bottom of the tent in the morning. And this is expensive! As a result, drying only a tent tent requires.
• Bought four additional cavallers for end trap.
• Replaced the end deceit to the "smart" from Niteize. Now it is very convenient to adjust the tension of the delay, without bothering with knots and / or "crossing" of the pegs after after or during the rain, the tent awning is naturally a little stretched and saves.
• After all these manipulations, the final weight grew by 150 grams, the tent began to weigh 2 kg.

The tent is still quite new, she is not three years old. To date, the Big Agnes Copper SPUR UL3 tent was used in a hike in the Swiss Alps, as well as in several campaigns in the vicinity of the Red Polyana, for example, in family campaigns on the Berpine cornice and. After a few years of hiking, I will definitely reproduce this text, taking into account the more significant experience.

• Manufacturer Website: Bigagnes.com
• Tents Big Agnes in the store Sport Marathon

NEMO GOGO ELITE.

Purpose: single ultra-easy ultra-compact tent

The market analysis showed that the world outdoor industry offers quite a lot of models for such freaks (Gicks?) Like me. Of course, the English TERRANOVA Laser Comp with carbonous arc and a weightless cloth and a total weight of 450 grams is good, but the price of $ 1500 stopped me. As a result, I stopped at NEMO GOGO ELITE with a unique technology of "inflatable arc" for serious tourism. I liked her compactness (in full set of less than 2 liters), bright yellow color and the ideal ratio of "price-weight-quality". 17 thousand for a tent weighing less than 800 grams It seems to me is the "golden middle" in this endless race to reduce the weight of equipment!

In Austria

Tent with things inside

My legs and a rug in a tent

Tent in native case

Tent dimensions

Design in cut

Characteristics:

• Year of purchase: 2014
• Capacity: 1 person.
• Frame: one arc with an air chamber
• Awning: 10D OSMO ™ ELITE W / B Membrane
• Bottom: 20d Pu Nylon Ripstop
• Number of inlets / Tamboors: 1
• Full weight: 800 g
• Price: $ 430

Weaknesses: It's too early to talk. You can, of course, say there is no space, small, low, close to get into the sleeping bag, you need to undress in advance, "on the street", because in the tent you are going only forward with my legs (not for superstitious, shorter). But after all, the ultra-lite is not about sleeping "comfortably", but about "walking on the route";) Although, honestly, there are no problems in a dream - you sleep, stretching out in the whole height, there is also a place on the sides. So sleep is full, no problems!

While the NEMO Gogo Elite tent visited two campaigns - in my third campaign in the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve and in Weekend Hayking in the vicinity of Innsbruck. Here are some photos from these trips:

• Manufacturer Website: nemoequipment.com
• Singing Nemo in the store Sport Marathon

Sea to Summit Ultrasil 15D Tarp Poncho

"In battle" since 2014

Purpose: Ultra-easy tent-poncho 3-in-1

Matching awning, with which you can quickly construct a shelter from rain and wind - in fact a mandatory element of belling equipment for serious trips. Stretching it in the camp You can get an additional area protected from wind and rain, ideal, for example, in order to equip the kitchen. The second purpose is a rapid shelter from the rain and wind right on the route when you want to quickly and comfortably wait for bad weather, and not sit in the tent\u003e. There is a third, more original use of a hiking awning - in case of rain, you can easily dial drinking clean water. Once at night on the crest of the wooded Altai ridge, we did!

Previous big awning Bask size 3 for 4 meters I lost somewhere after a hike in Kamchatka and decided that the new marching awning should weigh 2 kg, and 200-300 grams;)

But the awning is the last century! A modern solution is a tent in which you can walk (!!!). Yes, yes, walk in the rain, with a backpack using it instead of a waterproof jacket. This is a miracle - poncho-awning. Poncho-awning is a solution of 3-in-1 - awning, raincoat and even replacement of the tent (shelter from the rain + mat and a sleeping bag, here's a burgrel for sleep!). In general, consider themselves. But I will say - weight savings is just fantastic !! So it is not at all surprising that in our sports marathon, this model enjoys frantic popularity among participants in various types of marchs and adventure races!

Characteristics:

• Year of purchase: 2014
• Size: 145 x 280 cm.
• Weight: 230 g
• Price - 7300 rubles in yellow-green or seatosummit.com
• Poncho Sea to Summit in the store

I first spent the night in the tent .... I do not remember when it was ... for a long time ... I was very small ... Since then only a huge father's tent, fashionable, Polish, brightly green-orange, was remembered. The subject of the pride of the parent and the envy of the neighbors is savages. She stood as a fabulous palace among the gray tent world.

Many where that tent visited: in the Caucasus and in the Baltic States, in Crimea and Transcarpathia, in Belarusian forests stood among the fields of Ukraine. When I hit twenty years old, I got a miracle - a tent from the attic and decided to use it for its intended purpose. Alas, the very first rain showed that nothing was always and the eternal tarp palace went to the dump of history.

And I began to build my camp under my fishing tasks. And that's what, as a result, built.

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Receipt is made to divide short and long. Although it is not entirely true. A couple is a three men who are fastened on fishing, will greatly live a couple of weeks in the most spartan conditions. And if women, children and other people, unusual for tightness and adversities go, then for three days they have to be located with maximum comfort.

On short (or "wild"), there is no time, and reluctant, spending precious time to deploy a large camp. If there is where to throw the tired body at night and putting it in the hungry belly - already good! On long (or "comfortable"), the camp departures are thoroughly, with all possible amenities and wisdoms. It is very desirable that the equipment for both types of trips to the maximum crossed - so cheaper and more convenient. But, alas, it does not always work.

Let's start with the tent

Everywhere and always the author uses such small tents with a small tambour (photo 3). They organized them alternately three pieces! When I'm going one - I take the "my" tent. If you add a second for my wife and third to children.

Places such tents occupy a little, installed, with some skill, in 10 minutes. But everyone has their own, separate apartment. No one snores, does not breathe in the face of evening alcohol, does not push in a dream. Twin tents, but one in them is freely, especially large people. In addition, there is a place for clothes and all sorts of small things. In a small tambone, it is convenient to store shoes and the entrance from the rain it protects.

I personally consider a big "family-run" tent personally (although I understand that not everyone shares my point of view). In it, of course, you can fold the mountain of things, put the table and even cook food. But we do differently: if you are going a crowd or for a long time, we take a tent. He and the kitchen and dining room and living room and cabin are a company and shelter from rain and wind. The tent is needed with a sturdy metal frame and double walls. In the heat - grid. In the cold or rain, the grid is closed with a cloth. For a short departure of one or two people, a small compact awning is suitable. He will protect him from the sun and will tap.

The main subject of internal arrangement is a tourist kitchen table. Very comfortable thing! There are different sizes, for long trips more conveniently large kitchen (photo 6), for short departure - simple tourist (photo 7). I prefer to sit on the simplest folded chair (yes, I also know about the armchairs). I choose stronger and higher. And necessarily with legs-brackets (as in the photo). This is not sinking in a viscous soil under the sedock. With folding seats, I did not make friends (or because of the growth of 195 cm, whether 140 kg is due to weight). They seem to me cumbersome and not very reliable. Those who cost real money do not hold a lot of weight and quickly fail, and expensive prices pull on polished headsets.

For long gatherings of a large company, folding tables and tables are not very suitable - painfully a shaky design. In such cases, we use the folding table (or tables) as economic, and the normal dining table is pounding from a tree. Like benches. Find a few boards is not a problem if you get acquainted with it.

Food is prepare for gas. The bonfire is very romantic, but dirty and dirty. Therefore, the bonfire stays for the soul or for smokers. In the tent, under the kitchen table on the "long" departures there is an ordinary household gas cylinder for two-door tiles.

For short departures I use approximately such cylinders with different nozzles - and for "cook", and to "enjoy".

Here you and gas and light. Although quite short-term trips today, probably, it is more profitable to use "long" cylinders and equipment for them. They are cheaper, there are on sale everywhere and equipment for them is also a "car and a small trolley."

Light is a big topic!

They listed with conventional lanterns, then luminescent, tried gas, kerosene and gasoline lamps. Then the LED lanterns came - the most "long-playing" ... and then one of our comrade acquired a compact generator, and life has changed.

Phones and other plates are always charged, the light is plenty. Comfortable thing!

"Personal" light provide cheap pads (photos 16), divided by all corners: in a tent, in the car, in the kitchen, in a box with fishing baits. Electric flashlight type "Bat" is convenient for night fishing (photo 17). A powerful "spotlight" also carries with you, but almost not use (photo 18).

About dishes

Special compact and light kits and bowlers let go to hiking tourists. For serious departures, I prefer spacious reliable boilers or even ... Old Pots from home. Pans also prefer large, with non-stick coating. We live with comfort and concentrates do not eat.

Personal dishes each chooses to taste. I use vintage bowls, spoons and stainless steel plugs. But I don't like metal mugs - the army is reminded. I drink from quite a home mug made by their "unbreakable" glass.

Another thing is short trips. A small bowler with a lid - the bowl, inside of which fit: a mug, spoon, matches and tin with tea, sugar and salt. To stir up something "instant" and drink a seagull - quite enough.

Forgot another important point ...

Having tried various types of litters, stopped on a self-taking mat (photo 19). Sleeping bag prefer the usual, type "blanket" (photo 20).

It is necessary - fastened and got a bag. It is necessary - unbuttoned and here you have a blanket. Bloodstones, by the way, I have two: simple light, on warm weather and a serious warmed, in which you can sleep with frost with comfort.

Here is like and all the main equipment. There was a trifle, which is also not forgotten. No toy blades and tourist toporists. Real shovel with a short handle and a peeled axhlock.

Mangal prefer the cheapest, team.

If what, he does not feel sorry to lose. There will not be no advice on the skottels. In this sacrament, everyone has their own secrets. In the "economic" set: nails, rope, tape, several clothespins, a piece of thick polyethylene, a tube is a washbasin on a five-liter plastic bottle. And, of course, strong and spacious packages for garbage.

All the above is a personal opinion based on the author's personal experience. No brands and equipment models are not given fundamentally. Photos show the type of equipment, stamps and models are also chosen by chance.

And in general, you can listen to the tips, but it is not necessary to rush to perform them. There are many different gear on the market, good and ... not very. Everyone can equip the camp in its understanding and opportunities.