Show pictures of your tent(s) on a canoe trip

[catamounthardware]

In this kind of tent, which I assume has no integrated floor, how do you keep ground water out in a downpour?

No, it’s actually a pretty standard dome-ish tent: mesh sides, bathtub floor. The “switch” aspect is just that you can set it up rainfly-only, which Nemo markets as a beach / shade shelter. That’s not via Hilleberg-style cleverness, but because the poles clip together using these DAC swivel clips. So long as the poles are secured at their ends (in the grommets on the inner tent, the dedicated straps Nemo provides for shade shelter setup, or the footprint), they stand up on their own, then you can connect either the inner, the fly, or both.

I’ll post some more photos the next time I have it set up (for the dog door mesh repair).

 

[goonstroke]

Here's my trusty old SD Lightning 2 at dawn on Caribou Lake (near Chesuncook, really part of Chesuncook since Rip dam connected them). Not an official site, but a few yards of gravel between the water and the woods is plenty. It looks like rain, and it did. I need a dry weekend to refresh the seam seal on that old tent, and here in Maine we haven't had a dry weekend in months.

 

[eckilson]

My go-to tent is an old Eureka Expedition. At this point it is probably 30-years old. This was last week on the Baskehegan. Waterproof, but if rain is in the forecast I put up an extra fly just in case.



A-frame with a hoop in the middle - plenty of room inside for me and whatever I want to keep dry.



It was my father's tent, so it has sentimental value. Never seen another one. Don't know how long they made them, put I did find these ads from the 1980's.





No, I don't plan to go the Everest with it. ;-)

 

[tketcham]

Unfortunately my favorite tent, a North Face Westwind, is no longer with me. The poles were mistakenly brought on my daughter's sixth grade camping trip and never made it home. North Face no longer carried replacement poles so the tent wasn't of much use to me any more so I gave it to a friend, who had an older Westwind that was shot but the poles were still good.

The design wasn't perfect but it was easy to set up, pretty storm proof, and would fit in really narrow spots. It wasn't free-standing but as long as you could anchor both ends it would pitch almost anywhere, here shown on the Stikine River in British Columbia and the Ptarmigan Traverse in Washington. I tried to replace it with a MSR Fury but the Fury just wasn't as good. Heavier, more complicated to set up and doesn't shed rain/snow as well. I now use a tarp/hammock system.

 

[Mason]

Unfortunately my favorite tent, a North Face Westwind, is no longer with me. The poles were mistakenly brought on my daughter's sixth grade camping trip and never made it home. North Face no longer carried replacement poles so the tent wasn't of much use to me any more so I gave it to a friend, who had an older Westwind that was shot but the poles were still good.

The design wasn't perfect but it was easy to set up, pretty storm proof, and would fit in really narrow spots. It wasn't free-standing but as long as you could anchor both ends it would pitch almost anywhere, here shown on the Stikine River in British Columbia and the Ptarmigan Traverse in Washington. I tried to replace it with a MSR Fury but the Fury just wasn't as good. Heavier, more complicated to set up and doesn't shed rain/snow as well. I now use a tarp/hammock system.

I have one from 1984. It's still useable, but I have several newer tents to replace it. It went everywhere with me. At the time it was the strongest tent on the market, surpassing even the vaunted VE24 based on tests using a platform built on a truck and traveling at freeway speeds. I still like the design, but I have a Hilleberg now.

 

[Pseudonym]

@Mason, which Hilleberg do you have and how do you like it? I'm in the market for a four man and have had my eye on the Keron.

 

[Mason]

I got the Jannu, a two person tent. I like it, but haven't had it in horrendous conditions. I bought it for my Barrenlands trips. I bought it instead of the Nammatj thinking it would be quieter in winds with fewer unsupported panels. I've been kept awake several times in Mt Hardwear tents (not the Trango, which I like) in high winds.

 

[Cruiser]

Firstly, this is a hammock forums group this spring ... we use mostly air tents, lol



and I realize that in the time this thread has been running I have learned to sew and gone through 3 versions of DIY hammocks, with this one being the latest version.




and when it gets below freezing (water that is) ... I just add the sock



Brian

 

[Sturgeon]

Here's my canoeing tent. It's a Taiji 2 from 3F UL Gear, a Chinese company.
Here it is on an island in Crooked Lake in Quetico in 2022.


It's an exoskeleton tent, which means the fly is under the poles, so you can leave the inner tent attached to the fly, and put it up in the rain ; i.e., pull it up to clip it to the poles and everything stays dry. So for ease of set up it's pretty good and fast.
Cost under $300 CAD. Doors on both sides. Good ventilation. It's not perfect, but it'll do for me for those trips where I might not find a hammocking spot.

Here it is on McAree Lake in Quetico. Just drying out my tarp and trying to make some shade.