Purchase of tents

Tents mainly involve weight, rain protection, space and price. These four things must be considered when shopping.

First determine the nature of your participation. Now most of my friends are involved in camping, crossing, hiking and low-altitude mountaineering, so a field camp is enough for everyone. If you have played to the point of climbing the snow-capped mountains, it is estimated that you are not interested in reading these things I wrote. If you want to climb the snow-capped mountains from scratch, I suggest you buy the most expensive and best mountaineering tent. Don't think that camping can deal with snow-capped mountains.

Everyone will have a budget before buying. Let's look at the price first. At present, there are black yak, MSR, BD, TNF and MHW； with more than 2000 yuan in China; /kloc-between 0/000 and 2,000 yuan, there are climbers and vacations, which doesn't seem to be much; Between 300- 1000 yuan are popular brands, including ACME, ANEMAQEN, K2, SNOWWOLF, CAMPLAND, LUXE, CAMPER, Pathfinder and Mu Gaudi. You are advised not to consider the following projects in 300 yuan. The cost is too low, and the tent must be a terrible thing.

kind

This is a headache because there are too many ways to divide tents on the market now. According to the number of users, such as single account, double account, four account ...; There are seasonal accounts, such as three-season accounts, four-season accounts and high-mountain accounts. The structures are yurt type, tunnel type and frog type. There are also accounts divided by account poles, such as single account, two account poles and three account poles. What are internal account, external account, glass account, aluminum account, single account, double account ... alas, my head hurts. We don't care that much. Let's distinguish tents in the most common way. For example, a tent is a bipolar field camp with 2-3 people. You can generally see the purpose of this tent, and then pay attention to the waterproof degree and weight.

At present, the popular tents in the market are two-person tents or two-person or three-person tents with two poles, which can reach PU 1500MM and weigh about 3KG. Depending on the brand, material and technology, the price varies greatly.

There are several kinds of tents that must be paid attention to when buying tents: tunnel tents and single-pole tents. After these tents are set up, be sure to nail them, otherwise they won't be used. In some cases, it may be difficult to build, so this factor must be taken into account when buying this tent; Alpine tent, which emphasizes wind resistance, has a snow skirt design and is generally heavy. It's usually painful to use when camping. If it is only used for camping, don't be shy to buy such impractical things; Hanging tents inside, E-225 was all the rage a few years ago, that is, hanging tents inside. It's very good to build an outer tent and then hide in it to hang the inner tent in rainy days. But at the same time, it also has a fatal weakness, that is, when the weather is good, it is impossible to use the inner tent alone to achieve the best ventilation effect, especially when camping by the sea. Single-story tents, which have basically been eliminated, are still sold in some fishing gear shops. The disadvantage is poor waterproof and breathable (except for high-tech waterproof and breathable fabrics).

material

Tent materials mainly include outer fabric, inner fabric, tent poles and bottom fabric. Say it one by one.

Outside fabrics, most of the campsites now use nylon cloth coated with PU fabric to achieve rain-proof performance (some are low-cost tents with polyester). Nylon cloth is mainly divided into 190T and 2 10T. The larger the number, the better, but the greater the weight. PU coating is expressed in units of * * mm The general standard is 1200MM, so most tents on the market are 1500MM. But whether this value is accurate or not depends on the conscience of the manufacturer. Hehe, you can know that the higher the waterproof degree, the greater the weight. If it is lower than 1200MM, it can basically be determined that its waterproof performance is not good, and it is usually not considered. In addition, the tent made of silica gel fabric brought in by VAUDE after entering China is claimed to be waterproof for 3000MM, and it is extremely light and the joints are not sticky. According to VAUDE, this kind of thread will expand when it meets water, blocking the joint. I have never used it myself. I'm going to buy one next time to try the effect, hehe.

The tent inside, it's much easier. Now it is mostly nylon or nylon fabric, which is not waterproof, but breathable. Some also designed a lot of gauze to increase the ventilation function.

Tent poles are nothing more than FRP poles and aluminum alloy poles. Aluminum alloy bars are divided into 606 1, 7075 and Easton, but the advantages of * * * are light weight, high strength and elasticity, and the cross section is broken after breaking, so it is easy to repair on site and reuse. The only drawback is that it is expensive. Hehe, FRP poles are just the opposite, and one advantage is that they are cheap. After it is broken, the fracture is like a bamboo split, so it is difficult to repair it on site, which is the most troublesome point when it is used outdoors.

The material of the bottom of the account used to be PE, but now it is made of nylon or Oxford cloth, and then coated with PU for waterproofing, which is often much higher than the outer account. The main consideration is that after people enter the tent, the bottom of the account is under great pressure.