Jack Wolfskin Expedition Dome 3 person

Advantages: Large lightweight, yet strong, dome-shaped family tent for 4 people
Disadvantages: Zips in doorway not ideally positioned for rainy day use.

...dry weather but often with ocasional heavy thunderstorms). It's a big tent yet copes well in strong winds and is reliably watertight. The front door can be raised and held horizontally to form a porch/roof, although 2 extra poles are needed for this. The manufacture is of a high quality with strong alloy poles and UV stable fabrics. It's a large tent with qualities more often associated with smaller tents designed for more serious mountain use. If you want a good quality, strong, stable, lightweight familly tent then the Base Dome 2 is ideal (or the newer, slightly larger Base Dome 3). If you don't like the price there are plenty of cheap (also very heavy and awkward to pitch) jousting tents on the market.... Read review

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Advantages: Stops your other foot getting muddy.
Disadvantages: It gets muddy.

...Unfortunately I seem to have dirty hobbies. By that I don`t mean disgusting or kinkiy, just dirty as in mud. Not that much mud really, just muddy boots (usually). I often end up with muddy wellies or riding boots and to remove them I used to either get the door step muddy by using that or get my clean foot or slipper muddy by removing the remaining one when you have used your other foot for the first one. Some clever person obviously realised that boots can be difficult to remove if they are tight around the calf and don`t have a zip and invented the boot jack. What is a Boot Jack? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A boot jack is a clever little device designed to make the removal of such boots much easier. It is constructed so that one foot is placed in between 2 gaps, the heel at the back and then the idea is to stand... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to put up
Disadvantages: Slightly drafty

...I bought this tent a year ago in a sale for around £50. Normally I think it costs nearer double that. It is a 3 man tent with a domed living area and a lower sleeping area at the back. The design is very simple. There are 4 poles in total. Two long poles thread crosswise to create the dome, and then the two shorter poles form the sleeping area. The poles are obviously quite long but the sections are held together with elastic thread so they fold up or snap together very easily. They also bend so for example the two longer poles arc over the top of the dome and are secured by tags at each end. In other words the poles are not secured to the ground. This makes assembly very easy even for one person. Once erected the whole tent can be moved to the best position. The edge flap of the tent running around the base is then fixed... Read review

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