Standing Room, Tents

AprilT

AprilT

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Why is it they only make standing room tents in humongous 5 or more person sizes. It would be fine by me even if they would drop it to a 4 person tent and give me standing room. My back isn't made for crawling around, I need to fit a double layer air mattress inside so there's no getting up off the floor. :D

When I first started out, I went with the 3 person tent which really only fit one and two if you wanted to be on top of each other.

This was my first little 3 person tent
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This is one I had upgraded to and it was huge for one person, but, I liked it, just don't want one this big again. I believe it was a 6 person and it looks like I'll have to get either a five person or 6 person again, planning to buy online tonight or tomorrow, been looking for the past few weeks just can't find anything smaller with a center height over over 5.2 ft in the 3-4 person range.
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How I envy you April.I love sleeping out in a tent. We did it once or twice when the kids were small. The tent was so small when one turned over we all had to turn over. Hubby wasn't happy because he couldn't bring a TV set. I hope you find just what you want.
 
Ruth, you made me laugh, I so appreciate it. :laugh: I love a good giggle. Thanks so much for the good wishes, I have always enjoyed the outdoors, even used to camp outside in the city when I was a little girl, well maybe not all night, but, we would set up tent like setting and play, gaze at the sky. I did get to do the real thing when I was a kid, but after adolescence, didn't take it up again till my 50's. I love camping with a group of friendly people.

I've been struggling back and forth with going not going, because of the aches and pains, but, I haven't been camping in a good 7 years and I miss it. Before it was camping and hiking, but, I'll only do the camping part now, I'm hoping I'll be up to doing the tubing part of the outing, it's supposed to be on slow moving water and you just sit and relax and flow with the slow moving stream for a 4 hour ride, there is a 2 hour one and if any of the other ladies take that one, I will join them for the shorter version.
 

AprilT said:
Ruth, you made me laugh, I so appreciate it. :laugh: I love a good giggle. Thanks so much for the good wishes, I have always enjoyed the outdoors, even used to camp outside in the city when I was a little girl, well maybe not all night, but, we would set up tent like setting and play, gaze at the sky. I did get to do the real thing when I was a kid, but after adolescence, didn't take it up again till my 50's. I love camping with a group of friendly people.

I've been struggling back and forth with going not going, because of the aches and pains, but, I haven't been camping in a good 7 years and I miss it. Before it was camping and hiking, but, I'll only do the camping part now, I'm hoping I'll be up to doing the tubing part of the outing, it's supposed to be on slow moving water and you just sit and relax and flow with the slow moving stream for a 4 hour ride, there is a 2 hour one and if any of the other ladies take that one, I will join them for the shorter version.
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Tubing! What fun. I did that on the Delaware River quite a few years ago. I'll never forget the experience.I remember huge turtles swimming just under the surface of the water. I was afraid the part of me hanging in the water would be their lunch.
 
We vacationed in a tent in 1969, it was so much fun that when we got home we bought a second hand popup trailer. No television in it.
 
Four hours of tubing, April? Make sure they give you one of those tubes with a backrest. I did a 3-hour tube ride last summer in a regular large tube and my neck was so sore from holding my head up I thought I was going to die. You're sitting back at an angle in those large tubes and there's just no way to get comfortable after a while.....at least for an old hag like me. And then, mucho embarrassment at the end when I end up on the other side of the river at the take-out spot and I'm so tired, I can't get leverage to get out of the tube. I'm struggling mightily and, thank goodness, a young man calls over "Ma'am, just stay there and I'll come over and get you!" God bless Southern boys....they do like to help. He towed me across the river and helped me up the bank. I thanked him mightily and he said, "Well, I'd hate to see my grandma stuck like that with no one to help." Well, I am old enough to be his grandmother but at least he could have said "mother", huh?

As far as tents go....the manufacturers lie like a rug! The last tent I bought said "sleeps 6"........yeah, six midgets into group sex! It also said "easily erected by one person". Liar, liar, pants on fire.....unless the one person has three arms and the patience of Job. It also claimed to be waterproof, but I figure if they're going to lie about everything else, they might as well lie about that, too!
 
I hope you have fun camping and tubing April, I love to camp outdoors but it's been years since I used a tent, we have a pop-up camper on our truck. I know what you mean about crawling around and not being able to stand, except for the large tents. Here's an 8X8' one online that's very expensive, but has standing room. Even if you wanted to pay the money you wouldn't have time to order and receive it. http://www.camptents.com/shop/quick-set-stand-up-dome-tent/
 
jujube said:
Four hours of tubing, April? Make sure they give you one of those tubes with a backrest. I did a 3-hour tube ride last summer in a regular large tube and my neck was so sore from holding my head up I thought I was going to die. You're sitting back at an angle in those large tubes and there's just no way to get comfortable after a while.....at least for an old hag like me. And then, mucho embarrassment at the end when I end up on the other side of the river at the take-out spot and I'm so tired, I can't get leverage to get out of the tube. I'm struggling mightily and, thank goodness, a young man calls over "Ma'am, just stay there and I'll come over and get you!" God bless Southern boys....they do like to help. He towed me across the river and helped me up the bank. I thanked him mightily and he said, "Well, I'd hate to see my grandma stuck like that with no one to help." Well, I am old enough to be his grandmother but at least he could have said "mother", huh?

As far as tents go....the manufacturers lie like a rug! The last tent I bought said "sleeps 6"........yeah, six midgets into group sex! It also said "easily erected by one person". Liar, liar, pants on fire.....unless the one person has three arms and the patience of Job. It also claimed to be waterproof, but I figure if they're going to lie about everything else, they might as well lie about that, too!
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OMG! You are hilarious, but, I can see something like what happened to you at the end of the tubing trip happening to me. The good thing is the tubes do have headrest, but, I'm thinking maybe I should pass on the whole tubing thing, and just float around the lake on my inflatable boat. I'm really in bad shape and not sure I should risk being in that awkward position for more than a few minutes anyway. Sometimes, I try to push myself to do things I know my body just can't really handle.

This is the tubing site

http://www.riversidecanoeing.com/new-river-inner-tubing.html

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I do know they lie about how many the tents accommodate, that's why I wouldn't ever get a two person tent, nothing less than a three person but prefer four. I ended up going with the 6 person tent just a little while ago. I first ordered one on Walmart which said it would be here this week, but after I paid, it showed it would be here next week just a couple days or so before my trip, I went back and canceled had to go onto amazon and order a different one. Sigh. I'm going to call Walmart and give them a piece of what is left of my brain.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I hope you have fun camping and tubing April, I love to camp outdoors but it's been years since I used a tent, we have a pop-up camper on our truck. I know what you mean about crawling around and not being able to stand, except for the large tents. Here's an 8X8' one online that's very expensive, but has standing room. Even if you wanted to pay the money you wouldn't have time to order and receive it. http://www.camptents.com/shop/quick-set-stand-up-dome-tent/
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That's a great looking tent, perfect size and you're right expensive, not in my budget for now, plus I made my purchase prior to seeing your post, but, if I'm still around next year and in the market, it's sure one, I may look into. A really nice looking tent, I'm going to take another look at it and around that site. Thank you for the link.
 
I need to get another tent.

I loaned mine to my daughter a while back and a raccoon tore a hole in it to get in and steal her food. So I told her she could keep it.
 
I transitioned to hammock camping back when I was still backpacking. It's different and has it's own issues but you don't have to crawl around on the ground.
 
dpwspringer said:
I transitioned to hammock camping back when I was still backpacking. It's different and has it's own issues but you don't have to crawl around on the ground.
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I would prefer not to sleep on the ground and if I were in a hammock, that's exactly where I would end up, so for me it's a just say no to hammocks except for daytime relaxing. Maybe a cocoon might work, but, any opening and I'm falling out. It's a nice thought though. :) I sometimes look at them with a bit of longing as I do with many a thing including bungee jumping and hang gliding, rock climbing, etc. :D
 
Family lore has me almost being born in a hammock. My mother was about eight months pregnant and they all decided to go camping for some reason. They set up camp in the dark and my father strung the "jungle hammock" that he and my mom would be sharing unwittingly across a road. In the middle of the night, they woke up to see headlights bearing down upon them at an alarming speed. They were trying to scramble out of the jungle hammock and luckily the car stopped in time.

No wonder my mother never liked camping.
 
jujube said:
Family lore has me almost being born in a hammock. My mother was about eight months pregnant and they all decided to go camping for some reason. They set up camp in the dark and my father strung the "jungle hammock" that he and my mom would be sharing unwittingly across a road. In the middle of the night, they woke up to see headlights bearing down upon them at an alarming speed. They were trying to scramble out of the jungle hammock and luckily the car stopped in time.

No wonder my mother never liked camping.
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All my tent experience was pretty cheap. It was a dark green fabric and only half the shelter. You needed to find another with the same kind of half shelter and just enough room inside for two sleeping bags. After getting out of the Army I never wanted to be tenting ever again.
 

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