How Many Tents Do You Have?

we all collect things over time.
Tents can be one of those items.

I was cleaning out the shed and found my tents.
EIGHT OF THEM.
I didn't know I had so many to be honest.

I have my "backpacking tent".
It's a small "2 man" green dome that I bought at chinamart in 1986.
Used it quite a bit when I was a scoutmaster, and when I was in my "ultralight backpacking" phase.
Also used it for a horseback tent on several trips.
Kinda smallish and couldn't stretch out if I was any taller. (I'm 5'6")

I have the Bass Pro Shop "Hilton".
It's a three room tent with awning.
We used it TWICE since we got it.
Too much for a weekend trip.

I have my chinamart "4 man" tent that I use now fairly often.
It has room for me (and wife) and our gear, or me and a LOT of gear.
Cover it with a poly tarp in winter or bad weather and use a catalytic heater.
Used it in late June and it still does the job quite well.
It is my preferred shelter right after the TT now.
I use it often when travelling on my motorcycle.

I also have a set of US Army shelter halves and poles.
Gotta be the WORST idea for shelter ever produced.

Next is a genuine "Boy Scouts of America" wall tent.
Made of canvas, and used all over the nation for years at summer camps.
No floor. Made to use a cot inside. Heavy. HUGE poles.

I have a "tarp tent" in the bag of goodies too.
Just a canvas rectangle that is strung between poles or trees and tied/staked down.
I used this one for several years prior to the little green dome tent.

The one that puzzles me, is the coleman dome that I found thrown BESIDE a campground garbage can.
Just wadded up and left there.
Tent, Fly, Bag, Poles, Stakes, and instructions.
It's like they put it up and didn't want to take the time to refold and repack it.
Perfect condition.
It's about 5 x 7, and wasn't even dirty.

And for those who like the unique, I have a 15 x 20 truck tarp tent.
I used a heavy tarp (like you see on flatbed 18 wheelers) and made a "lean to" type tent.
It has a floor portion, roof, sidewalls, and open front with 8' "awning" that can be left up or folded down to cover the front.
When I was just out of high school, I had the local tarp shop sew it up for me.
Me and a buddy used it for 3 months as a river camp one spring.
A fire in front with reflector and even the 30 - 40 degree nights were pretty comfortable.

So what "non-RV" shelters have you managed to procure over the years?

Just the old 12x20 wall tent for hunting.

I'll use it if I am hunting with a group other than my brother and me. The TC is so much easier for 2 or less. Got it from DAVIS TENT . Enough room for 4 cots and a stove..

Those wall tents are nice for hunting. A friend of mine has one and it makes the November weather in Northern B.C. tolerable.

Personally, my current tent count is 0.

Gave the last one to my daughter when she moved out on her own.

that's the problem with all of you

you are "tooo tents"

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<groan>

You're too funny.

I forgot one.
I also have a truck bed tent by "SPORT".

(Might sell it though)

Good question.
I don't know.
I think there is one in the garage.
Maybe more than one.
someday, maybe we will clean out the garage, and we'll find out.
It WOULD be nice to be able to get the Jeep AND the Subaru in the garage...

I have 3. One that I regurlarly use a 10X12 this one my ecsentric brother gave everyone in the family for Christmas in 1990 as a hint we were all going camping together. One is a 2 man Pup tent I've had since the mid 80's when I used to camp with the motorcycle. The third is the soon to be EX's. I will give it back to her when we trade property. Don't use the tents a lot any more. Too many years of running around on Steel Flight Decks have played havick with my hips. I like to have a mattrise under me now. Although Labor day I did pull the 10X12 out but with a cot instead of the ground.

Just around the time this thread came out, we happened to dig up our two tents from the garage and set them up to see what condition they were in.
Now that I reopened PB account, I can SHOW you our small collection of tents:

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Our first tent.
Bought with money that was suppose to go for bedroom lamps.
We figured we could still sleep without lamps but we cannot camp without a tent.

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We bought this when we were into canoe-camping.

Lots of fun times with BOTH tents! :D

we bought one about 6 yrs ago and spent many happy times in it. One time we camped in the primitive section of the smokey mountains . It rained and then turned very cold and higher up it was snowing. we liked to have froze trying to cook on the coleman stove. I would cook a little, jump in the truck , warm up and get back out and do more. hubby ask me if i wanted to go buy some breakfast and i said no way. we came here to enjoy the outdoors and that's what i want to do. we also had to lock up our supplies in the truck to keep it away from the bears and we heated water to bath on the coleman stove. It was one of the most enjoyable experiences i ever had . we still have the tent and although we haven't used it in a long time i keep it just in case we decide to use it again.

I only have two. One two man pup and a six man.

Now if you let me include my son and my father in law we can get way into the double digits!! :)

I might have my old Boy Scout one in the attic. Last time I used it was in the late 50's or early 60's.

I like to "rough it" in a 41' MH!!

If a screem room counts, I currently have a total of 1. :)

Sure I've had my share of tentage in the past, but since I "graduated" to my Aliner (basically an insulated "tin tent" on wheels - with a memory foam topped king bed, couch, dinette, 3-way refrigerator/fridge, 3 burner stove, microwave, shower/cassette toilet, air conditioner... well, you get the idea) I've had little interest in tenting. I wonder why? True, I can't strap it to the back of a motorcycle and travel cross country like I used to do, but my little 4 cyl car pulls it just fine, (without spending a fortune on gas) which is the next best thing.

Besides, the smell of wet canvas brings back, shall we say, rather unpleasant memories of waking up in the middle of the night freezing to death in the German Alps (Korea was colder, but I didn't live in a tent, so it wasn't nearly as bad.) Then standing on wet ice and beating the coke out of the smoke stack of a barely warm diesel heater before returning even colder and wetter to a cramped, "mummy" sleeping bag, resting on a canvas cot with freezing air blowing freely underneath (GP meduims are pretty drafty - and buggy when it warms up a tad). Ah, the good old days....NOT!

Chip

Chip - You are making me rather nauseous and nervous with all that talk about GP Mediums and camping in Germany and Korea. That brings back far to many horrible memories of many of those outings. Seems like Uncle Sugar always picked the most horrible periods of time and conditions for these marathon camping trips.

Honestly it soured me so badly on the whole concept of camping that I refused to even consider it for many years after I had suffered through many blistering cold and wet weeks and weeks. I had several assignments to units during the mid 60's to mid 70's that literally spent about 3 weeks of every month between September and May out in those god awful places. Those were a lot worse than many nightmares as I remember. We would stay in garrison most of the time during the nicer summer months and then make up for it in the miserable winter months. :blink: :blink: :blink: