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From: topher@cyb-eng.UUCP (Topher Eliot)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: tent info requested
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 14:12:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 14:12:36 1984
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> In general, I tend toward the dome style tents with the long poles 
> that go all the way through.  (Very hard to describe -- I hope y'all 
> can figure out what kind I mean; there are really only two kinds of 
> tents).  My reasoning behind this is relatively simple -> they are easy to
> put up, and they CAN'T FALL DOWN in the middle of the night.  This is because
> they don't rely on the stakes to hold them up at all.  You don't even need
> stakes, except to keep your tent from blowing away!

"Can't fall down"?  Hoo-hah, you haven't been in some of the breezes I've
been in.  The whole thing just sort of goes squoosh down on top of you.
And when it blows away, it BLOWS AWAY.  As in you might not find it again,
even though it had your sleeping bag, backpack, food, clothes . . .

> They are usually not as large as standard tents.  Standard tents can be 
> arbitrarily sized; dome tents must be circular on the bottom.

I have a catalog at home with the weirdest-shaped "dome" tents you've ever
seen.  If anybody wants, I will mail the address if I can find it.  I've
witnessed a rectangular "dome" with only two poles (diagonally from corner
to corner), it squooshed under the pressure of a sideways glance.

I own a dome and am very happy with it.