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All aspects of tent design, waterproofing and technical aspects

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Tent care Advice	Topic: Tents

Published: Thursday 09 June, 2011

Lightweight Tent Fabrics	Topic: Tents
This page describes the common fabric constructions, finishes and the physical properties of modern, lightweight backpacking tent fabrics. You will see references to many of these fabric specifications and properties in product information and advertisements. As usual, it’s not a simple story. Speci...
Published: Thursday 09 June, 2011

Choosing a Tent	Topic: Tents
An obvious difference between tent designs is the supporting framework they use. Where this is located relative to the tent fabric skin/s will be looked at below, under Pole Positioning. For now we want to focus on the frame system itself. It is usually easy to identify tents from the following diff...
Published: Sunday 03 October, 2010

Waterproofing - Silicone vs Polyurethane vs Acrylic by Roger Caffin	Topic: Tents
The coating on your tent fly, parka or poncho may determine whether you stay dry in bad weather; it may also determine what your gear weighs after a storm. Top end tents these days use a silicone polymer coating (usually known as 'silnylon'), but this fabric is expensive and hard to handle in a prod...
Published: Tuesday 09 March, 2010

Caring for your Tent	Topic: Tents
It is important to become familiar with your tent before taking it away on a trip. Struggling with unknown pieces of fabric and poles in wild weather or an unfamiliar environment can be dangerous as well as embarrassing.
Published: Monday 20 October, 2008