smith4188
Veteran
- Location
- Spain / Isle of Man
Hola!
Yesterday I completed a 32-day tour from the Isle of Man to the Costa del Sol. It was utterly fantastic! But anyway...
I was half camping/half hotelling. My tent is a Hilleberg Nallo 2 GT, which was great, but every morning, whether it had been raining or not, the outside of the tent was wet through (there were lots of clear, cold nights with plenty of morning dew). Then of course the tent gets packed away and so the inside gets wet through. This didn't matter too much because most evenings that I camped were warm enough to dry the tent out within 20 minutes or so, and on damp nights I stayed in hotels. But had I been forced to camp every day for cost reasons (which is becoming increasingly likely) the inside of the tent would have been soaking when setting up on non-sunny days. I was leaving early each morning so there wasn't time for the tent to dry out before packing away.
Is this just a typical tent problem (hadn't done much camping before this trip) or is there some top tip that someone can pass on?
Cheers,
Steven
Yesterday I completed a 32-day tour from the Isle of Man to the Costa del Sol. It was utterly fantastic! But anyway...
I was half camping/half hotelling. My tent is a Hilleberg Nallo 2 GT, which was great, but every morning, whether it had been raining or not, the outside of the tent was wet through (there were lots of clear, cold nights with plenty of morning dew). Then of course the tent gets packed away and so the inside gets wet through. This didn't matter too much because most evenings that I camped were warm enough to dry the tent out within 20 minutes or so, and on damp nights I stayed in hotels. But had I been forced to camp every day for cost reasons (which is becoming increasingly likely) the inside of the tent would have been soaking when setting up on non-sunny days. I was leaving early each morning so there wasn't time for the tent to dry out before packing away.
Is this just a typical tent problem (hadn't done much camping before this trip) or is there some top tip that someone can pass on?
Cheers,
Steven