ROOF TOP TENT : What Should We Get?
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Good question. I'll bet this is where the JB and other clam shell types do much better.
Sharkey
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Honestly, that’s a big deal for me and it’s why I keep going back to looking at teardrop style off-road trailers. It’s also why I use a top of the line, 4 season, mountain hardwear tent (even in the summer). As you well know, the high Sierras can be unforgiving. There are few things worse than waking up in the middle of the night to a collapsed tent.
TrailHunter
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Waking up in the middle of the night to a collapsed tent... and a Bear is giving you a back massage?
Sharkey
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HighwayTrout
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Just looked up Alu-Cab tents thinking they look pretty good and bomb proof. But Jesus Christ they are proud of them. They go for around 4 grand.
TrailHunter
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Sounds like you have been camping with Overlander.
Ha! Negative...
jesse3638
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My mom was a sales person and always said you have to believe in the products you sell. Up until she passed away she would still write letters (not e-mail) to companies she believed in.
Good one!
Or being soaked from rain run off coming up through the bottom of the tent. We carry "60 second" tents to use at work. They are fine when its dry but when it gets nasty you wake up cold and wet. For years now I've carried an REI half done 2 person tent. I've spent many nights in torrential down pours and woke up nice and dry inside. Also they are smaller so when its cold they hold heat better than the large tents.
Brute
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Small tent is warmer...that is truth.
JKbrick
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That may be true but BJs are good in any weather condition [emoji50]
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Abntroop
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Hey Eddie, if you want hands on time, feel free to swing by and I’ll run ya though our CVT tent in the trailer.
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Abntroop
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Having come from the PNW, our CVT tent was all taped seams and we have camped in it in snow conditions, full nasty rain storms, etc etc. have never been anything but warm and dry. Was a great investment and beat all hell to air mattresses, ground tents, and mud. Having used ground tents for years I do not miss them in the slightest.
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highoctane
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Following this one. I’d really like one to put across the bed sides.
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Andy5160
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Passed by Toyota 4Runner today with this tent on top
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Rancho
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We just got done with a Jeep Jamboree and one of our Jeeps has this.
The Tepui, my boss really likes it.
Another in our group stayed in a hard shell. After a solid night of rain ( I was on ground in a tent I have had for 20+ years LOL) when we went to shut it, the water on top of the hard shell DRENCHED the owner. :doh: Just a heads up on that.
But as others have said, the hard shell set up fast.
The Tepui, my boss really likes it.
Another in our group stayed in a hard shell. After a solid night of rain ( I was on ground in a tent I have had for 20+ years LOL) when we went to shut it, the water on top of the hard shell DRENCHED the owner. :doh: Just a heads up on that.
But as others have said, the hard shell set up fast.
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Brute
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Not sure which hardshell he has, but I’ve spent a few nights in a hard rain in mine...never been drier in a tent...
Rancho
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No he was dry in the inside but when he pulled the tent down the next AM after the storm, the rain that was on the top drenched hmm
:cheesy:
:cheesy:
Brute
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Ha...I could see how that could be a possibility...although it's never happened to me...
