Camping tents come in a wide variety of styles, shapes, sizes and weights for different uses. Persons using a tent should consider what type of trips you will use your tent on. Will it be recreational camping, backpacking or even an expedition. The camping tent will have a season rating, 2 season, 3 season or 4 season. Choose your tent by what seasons you will be camping in and how many people with sleep inside.
Four Season Tents
A 4 season tent, also known as winter tents or all season tents, are made to provide shelter year round. Four season tents often have stronger poles and material to withstand the harsh conditions. These tents will have steeper pitched roofs to help snow and ice from building up. Heavier fabrics may be used to help retain warmth.
Backpacking Tents
These tents are considered lightweight or ultra lightweight as weight is a common concern for backpackers and hikers. A Backpacking tent may have thinner fabric, small fiberglass or aluminum poles and are very compact for ease of carrying. Available as a solo tent or multi-person tent suitable for 2 – 3 persons. Backpacking tents may not stand up to strong winds or snow like a four season tent.
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Video Script for Trek Canvas Camping Tent
In this video i’m going to show you why this is the only tent you may ever need.
Being one of the most unique camping tents available for your family, canvas tents have shown their durability for more than 100 years. Made with premium 100% Cotton Canvas and available in two sizes to fit your needs.
Vertical straight walls provide added interior space for more enjoyable camping. Each side and rear wall feature windows that are screened with no-see-um mesh to keep the biting bugs out let air flow freely. Entrance features large inverted T door with the same high quality polyester mesh screen.
Value your privacy?, with a canvas tent, your silhouette does not show through like nylon tents. Windows and door feature zip closed flaps for total privacy, protection from rain or total control of air flow.
Standardized pole system ensures easy set up on your new canvas tent. Made from strong lightweight steel, with rust resistant coatings, these will handle even the most demanding camping situations.
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Long gone are the days of setting up giant tents that all soldiers sleep together in. Marine and Army soldiers of today get high tech 2 man tents that are easy to setup and transport. With today’s military men constantly on the move, they need light weigh and highly portable tents.
The Trek military combat II dome tent fills the need for the average camper and hunter to sleep securely. Styled after those used by the US Marines, this tent is light weigh, setups in a flash, and take down is just as simple. Heavy duty fabrics that are long lasting are required for combat operations, this is built in with the Trek tent. The Denier polyester fabric is a high count material with a 2000 mm water repellent rating. Totally UV resistant for long life.
Every camper knows what a chore it can be getting into and out of some tents. Our combat personal know this too. Having to move large gear securely and easily through any opening. Trek offers a extra large door in the front vertical wall, this upright wall also helps to provide extra room inside the tent. Both front and rear doors are fully screened for ventilation and bug protection.
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Trek Tents has a long history in the manufacturing of family camping tents. Leisurelife (USA) Inc was founded by George Smith, with 40 years experience in the tent industry. as an executive vice president and co owner of Camel Manufacturing. Mr Smith devoted his life to the design and manufacturing of camping tents.
Trek continues to provide high quality tents at very competitive price points. Manufacturing tents for the U.S. Military and family campers alike. Strong success has come with a patented tent used by the Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. No larger than your frying pan when collapsed, this tent replaces a traditional one person tent. The requirement that military tents be made in the USA, have provided Leisure Life another opportunity to succeed in the camping tent arena. Mr. Smith also holds a patent for a 3 room tent with gazebo.
LeisureLife’s line of Trek tents include canvas and synthetic fabric tents and range in cost from low to medium-high price points. Targeted mainly toward affordable large family camping tents, Trek has also focused on smaller tents used for backpacking and four season expedition quality dome tents. Even though competition is strong through out the camping industry, Trek continues to thrive.
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Do you use a ground cloth for your camping tent? You probably should, for a number of different reasons. These floor protectors help protect your tent floor from rocks and sticks that could cause a puncture or rip in the floor. A ground cloth can also add an extra waterproofing layer to the tent floor. Another reason for these valuable additions, it helps keep the bottom clean. Having to clean the bottom of your expensive tent is just another step you can eliminate when packing up your tent. Several manufactures provide generic and custom fit floor protectors.
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One of Eureka!’s newest tents in the 2010 lineup. This tent is available in 2 sizes for sleeping 2 or 3 adults. With its light green color, this tent blends in with the surroundings perfectly. Uniquely designed by Eureka! for ease of use and lasting value.
Specifications:
Versatile 2 pole dome tents utilizing DAC Pressfit poles for strength and reduced weight. Unique fly design offers protected wet weather performance or can be rotated 180 degrees for easier tent access in fair conditions. Fly with vestibule wings shelter doors from the elements. Pressfit 2 pole dome with DAC 8.5mm poles. 75D Stormshield polyester fly, tested to 1000mm. Walls are 75D polyester taffeta. Floor is 75D polyester, 1000mm tested. 4 storage pockets including door stash pockets.
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Announcement:
All Trek Canvas Tents / Screen Houses are now back in stock. This includes the Canvas Family Tent, Canvas Cabin Tent and the Canvas Screen Tents. These tents are best sellers and great for summer or winter use. All cotton canvas is durable, helps protect form wind and last longer than other tents.
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Filed under Camping Tents, Screen Tents, Website information by on Dec 3rd, 2009.
Camping is a great American pastime. It is a way to get back to basics and truly experience all that nature has to offer. The experience as a whole encompasses a range of activities that could include hiking, biking, canoeing and fishing. Such an adventure involves at least one night spent in the great outdoors, often even more. This does not mean you must give up all the amenities of home. Some sites offer cabins and some people have recreational vehicles. Shelter can be had even in the most remote locations through the use of canvas camping tents.
Canvas camping tents are basically a shelter made up of canvas draped and connected in some way to a framework of poles and ropes. Larger versions also usually have some type of anchoring mechanism. Sizes range from those that will accommodate just one person to those used as barracks, such as in the military, with room for many people. Tents for use in a recreational setting can be categorized in two basic ways. They are either small and light enough to be carried in a back pack or they are large and heavy enough to require some sort of vehicular transportation to the pitch site.
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In the modern family entertainment consists of glowing screens. The computer, video games, cell phones, and television are the things that entertain our families. These are all great technologies, but most of them are solitary activities. Game nights have always been a go to family get together, but why not do something special? A family camping vacation could be just what you need. Spending time together in a tent out in the middle of the woods can be a lot of fun. Plus, your kid’s cell phone won’t get reception, so you’ll get uninterrupted conversation.
Start your family camping vacation by picking the right place to go. National forests and parks will often have areas reserved for camping. Call ahead and ask where to go and how much it will cost. When you get there the attendant will usually give you a map to the reserved spot to put your tent. National forests and parks have hiking trails that you can take your family on during your vacation. There are also sometimes visitor centers that give have fun and informative displays about the park. These forests parks are also easy to find, because they have brochures at tourist places and sometimes sporting goods stores.
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Gifts for the Holidays
All types of sporting goods make great presents for the holidays. Give the special person in your life a really special gift this season. Lets look at some gifts for the outdoors person.
Camping: A favorite of families and singles. Gifts for camping can include: a camping tent is always a favorite, or items such as sleeping bags for a comfortable nights rest, Lanterns light your life and can also provide warm in cooler climates. Other gifts for the camper, Camp Stoves, camping furniture, air mattresses and even portable toilets can be given as gifts.
Backpacking / Hiking: Any person who loves to hit the trail knows a lightweight backpack is a must. Hiking gifts are available in many choices, such as water filters, Ultralight backpacking tents, sleeping bags, Self Inflating bed rolls and the very valuable Multi Tool.
Recreation: These gifts can provide a special meaning, since the hole family usually receives the enjoyment. A screen house provides a bug free and shaded area for family meals or parties at the park or even in the backyard. A canopy adds needed shade for relaxing or preparing food. Have someone who loves the beach? Beach sun shades are a must for any anyone that loves the shoreline. Ready to relax, you cant go wrong with a comfortable hammock. Hammocks are available with free standing frames, ones that can placed between 2 trees or poles and hammock chairs that are great for the beach house or backyard. Metal Detecting is also a great recreational activity.
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Filed under Camping Equipment, Camping Tents, Canopy, Hunting, Leisure, Recreation, Screen Tents, Treasure Hunting, Website information by on Oct 1st, 2009.
