5 Mistakes Every New Tent Camper Makes

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• Great video, no waffle, straight up😎

• Try putting up a GP medium or large lol

• This doesnt have jack diddly to do with what i searched! I want to keep mice from eating holes in my tent!🤬

• Great tips. Going camping in a week & will definitely use your tips. I did already do a trial run by pitching the tent since I am a newbie!! Thank you for your advice & time!!👍😁

• As a newbie camper I appreciate the advice, thanks for this! I would appreciate advice on how to insert and remove Tent Poles (threaded through the material) as this seems to take an eternity to do, the material just keeps gathering and the poles keep coming apart!!

• Step one: Buy a tent

  Step Two:Read the given written directions

  Step 3:…….

  ….Stop listening to ignorence be sold for Ad Revenue money,

  My message: maybe try to go camping and get away From people who Cowardly insult you over how THEY think you should act or do things.

  Better advice:
  Type in the tent you have (word for word)
  And see hundreds of How to videos on it,
  if you're not up for reading…

  Lastly
  Bring a firearm,

  "Happiness isn't planned,
  it just happens"

• Are you being dumb so that one can comment so that you get pushed further in the algorithm or you're just really that slow? who in their right mind sets up a tent and goes to the backcountry? who sets up a tent and goes for a walk? who's going to look after the tent while you're away? I mean, I'm not talking about in a camp, I'm talking about wild solo camping, I'll wait.

• Just set up my first tent.
  In humid 90 degree weather.
  Under trees.

  Also mistake with guylines on day 2, had it right first.

• I think this is well made and well said. Too many tents have been broken or ripped by the own user and the user gets angry and blames it on the tent and the company.

• Your correct about Widow Makers because when ahi was young buck a local tourist was killed tent under one when a rain/wind storm broke that branch of the tree and killed him and his partner was in bad shape too! It was in top of the local news!

• Excellent, post. Thanks!

• Id love to camp again my princess gf says shes too good for a tent

• very nice tips…thankyou

• No one trust this person if they can't spell they shouldn't give advise.

• You forgot mistake 6 and 7.
  #6: Never take your brat children into a campground if you don't know that it is unacceptable to unleash these little "noise missles" on campers that have a reasonable expectation of peace and quiet. Don't confuse 'campground' with 'playground'.
  #7: A campground is absolutely not a place to party and act like children (see#6 above). Menchildren are the worst!

• 6. Don’t leave food in tent to prevent mice from breaking in

• 0:24 what little tent is that ?

• I miss camping my gf would not be caught in a tent

• You calling me a noob?! 1vs1 me mate

• Those killer branches apply to almost everywhere. Parking the car in high wind under trees, swimming under water falls and jumping off bridges in murky water especially near the pylons where branches often accumulate under water.

• Widow makers are falling branches

• 6. buy a tent with a rain flap that goes all the way down the side of the tent. 7. learn how to dig a rain trench 8. sleep on a cot 9. bring your clothes in a plastic container (not your travel luggage) that fits under your cot. 10. always double the size of the tent for the amount of people camping (1->2 person tent, 2-> 4 person tent, …) You're welcome!

• the hairline doe

• 99.9% of camping fun is setting a tent up the first time.

• whos here for shcool

• This is more of a tips when pitching a tent…. the biggest mistakes when camping have to do with food and water…. not how maximised ur tent it…
  Misleading video title….

• Mistake #5 is most important: Not looking up for hazard branches or trees…widow makers.

• Actually, using a ground sheet or footprint is a mistake. Protecting a tent floor that will leak anyway is a useless endeavor. The priority is not to protect the tent floor. The priority is to protect the camper. To keep water from wetting the camper, there are two basic steps.
  1. Never place a tent where rainwater will either puddle (any low spot) or flow to a puddle (any channel or longish channel from higher ground toward lower ground. High and low may be only an inch or two difference vertically.
  2. Adding a “plastic bathtub” inside the tent. Measure the inside dimensions of the tent. As an example say, 2’X8’. From your local hardware, buy a sheet of visqueen from which can be cut a rectangle that is 1 foot wider and 1 foot longer, in this example that would be 3’X9’. Fold up all edges 6”, miter each corner and secure each one with duct tape. When the tent is set up, spread out the visqueen tub inside. Now, the camper is protected.
  When camps were deluged by continuing rain, I have had water trickling through the tent – in between the floor and the visqueen tub – for 2-3 days. I and my gear remained dry.
  Every tent floor that I’ve seen leaks. Don’t bother with a ground sheet unless the tent doesn’t have a floor in the first place. And, why would you buy a tent without a floor?

• I love it “pokey things”. Mistake No. 7 – not seam sealing your tent before you leave!!

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