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Living in a tent?

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chicken
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Has anyone lived in a tent for an extended period of time? If so where were you and what was your set up?

Also does anyone have a 4 season tent? If you do, how often do you use it compared to your 3 season (or is it your only tent). Do you think it is a good Idea to purchase a 4 season tent if you were going to spend a summer hovering around the Arctic circle?
Mar 28 2011 9:42PM
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dbstar
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Get the Sierra Design Lightning XT 4 tent... its big, light, and you won't ever get wet, yet when its hot it has good ventilation to keep it somewhat bearable.
Mar 29 2011 8:27AM
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disastertourism
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This thread has made me think about travelling around France/Spain this summer with a tent.
Mar 29 2011 12:05PM
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chicken
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oh yeah. mostly black bears though
Mar 29 2011 12:28PM
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I_Am_Mod
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a friend of mine went to corsica with his girl for 2 weeks, they'd just cruise around and sleep in their tent on the beaches, every single day, it looked quite awesome :)
Mar 29 2011 1:46PM
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Proze
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I actually lived a summer in a tent. literally washing my clothes in a sink in and living off non perishable items. I also had a full time job and the tent was on a beautiful island in the thousand islands buuut i definately wanted a house at points. Keep it as simple as possible. ALWAYS have some kind of lightand ALWAYS keep everything as dry as possible and you ll be alright
Mar 29 2011 1:51PM
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disastertourism
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I like the idea of it, but practically I'm not sure how I'll travel, I might do all of Europe for 22 days by train, with an InterRail ticket, but its where to actually camp, because usually campsites are a bit of a way out of cities.

I might start looking into it more seriously for this summer. I could go to the Monterrat mountains and I've never seen the alps in summer so that could be interesting.
Oh that just got me excited, time to plan!
Mar 29 2011 1:51PM
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Meases_Pieces
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completely no sir. i went on a balls to the wall canoe camp where we went on a 14 day canoe trip and i took a crazy creek. it saved me so much. great for chilling in front of the fire without having to hunch over. at night you just loosen the straps and its your pad for sleeping instead of roots/rocks
Mar 29 2011 2:28PM
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tripnip
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i lived in one for 3 months while being a ciunsler at boy scout camp and it was a wall tent very big
Mar 29 2011 2:52PM
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PeteySkeety
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what essential items would you bring instead?
Mar 29 2011 3:59PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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I lived in a canvas tent for the past six summers spending ten-eight weeks per summer camping. At work at a camp so yeah. But its great if you like being outdoors.
Mar 29 2011 4:05PM
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sack
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I dunno, supposing he's out there for 4, 5 months and one or two of those days are a ravaging whiteout snowstorm. should he press on? or stay and weather the storm?
if he should stay, it might be beneficial to his mental and physical well-being to be able to stand.
Mar 29 2011 4:12PM
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geteducated
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essential items, but more of it.

more rope,more iodine tabs, more first aid, more batteries, more food, more socks, and more etc.


hurrrrrr durrrrrr
Mar 29 2011 5:07PM
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chicken
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yeah this is a work camp too. We bring our own tents though.
Mar 31 2011 10:24PM
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chicken
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yeah this is a work camp too. We bring our own tents though.
Mar 31 2011 10:24PM
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