Shiny and I went with two other couples. It was a lot of fun. BTW, I meant to say that our tent did NOT stop the water above... I guess that was pretty evident. And yea, it's a one-layer tent... a freakin' huge one at that. That also makes it too heavy to carry around easily...and obviously a tent that leaks water isn't so great.

Anyway, it was fun. I want to do it again, preferably with a smaller, lighter, water-proof tent.

Well, i had a rough but survival like experience with a bivvy bag one night. The main problem was that it was cold and the sheet would lie on your face. Bivvy bags are dumb nowadays anyway since tents are pretty compact and light.

anyway, lolz @ ur tent fail probably due to u not being able to set it up

hah, you bastard. It was set up properly, I promise. It's quite old and it's just leaking at like every seam. It's a great fair-weather tent though.

On an unrelated note, anyone want to buy a tent.

I have two friends who bought also a one layer tent and they both basically took a bath in it.

One of them thought he was being economic and bought that tent which reminds a coffin, very low and about 2m long (its not possible to stand up in it, only crawl around in it) so about 6am or so as my brother tells me, that friend and his wife got up, packed the tent into the nearest trash can and left. And that was that.

The other friend bought a regular dome tent but it was a one layer tent. His problem was that the airmattress was too wide and touched the sides of the tent and thus breaking the waterproofness of the tent walls. He woke up quite wet as well.

My tent is also a regular dome tent but it is a two layer one. This means that when i set up the tent, its not waterproof. Theres a second layer i have to put over it like a blanket and fix to the ground and that one is waterproof. It takes longer to set up but atleast theres no water pouring down on me.

The aim of my post is not to prove that i am right and they were wrong, the aim here is to provide you with tools that you can protect yourself from overeager salesmen when you go hunting for a new tent.

lol @ tents madness thread. It's been years since I've slept in a tent. I've gone soft.

But when i was still a boy scout I spent ages in tents, big and small. Used to be quite the expert at building constructions with wood and rope, too. We used to build shit like 15m tall towers and 2 or 3 sleeping platforms on top of each other. Unfortunately I was a lousy socializer, so I kind of hated the boy scouts.

But even then I still managed to manoeuver myself into Secondary Patrol Leader rank, which is like the second highest rank in the group (not excluding the supervisors). It was a good life, no responsibilities as long as the Patrol Leader was there - which was all the time because they're like that - and no tedious meetings with the other Patrol Leaders, BUT I always had access to the evening beer sessions and some control over the budget and planning. I even got to discipline some bastards once in a while.

lol@ox.

@Peltz, I know what you're talking about with the dual layers. the other two couples each had dome tents with 2 layers. One leaked, the other didn.t I do plan on buying a 2-layer back-packing tent of the dome variety. BTW, I believe the technical term is the "rain fly"... though why the hell it's called that I don't know.

Anyway, sorry to have taken over your thread Ox. Shiny has some pictures of me drunk with one or two of my catches... those should appear eventually.

Yay camping - haha - yea my clothing all got wet too. So when I had to hit the ladies room at 4AM I took my lantern and wore my hicking boots - but went in my girl boxer shorts and wet sweatshirt. And guess who got bit by either a small snake or large ass spider. Yea - I know you should wear pants - I''m not dumb I was just half asleep and miserably wet. So I got to go to the ER yesterday to get antibiodics for the next couple weeks. Yay!

I'm buying waterproof pants next time. I wanted to buy them this time but decided not to since they were like $100. But yea it would have been worth it. Especially once I get my ER bill.

Might I add I am now in pain uo and down my damn leg errg. I have bad luck all around or maybe just bad planning.

As for the tent - It was one I have had for like 12 years. So it is possible over the years it has just been well pretty damn worn out. It was originally around $350 but I bought it used once from my dads girlfriend for like $150.00 so I think I got my monies worth out of it. Time to buy another one for sure. I was so tempted to just leave the fucker at the camp sight - you have no idea.

lol @ tent madness. No worries over the thread tho.

Snake bite Shiny? That sucks! Well I guess it must have been a viper at worst judging by the consequences, but still. Hope you recover well.

Can't wait to see Satis' intoxicated mug staring vacantly into the distance while holding a tiny bass. No but seriously, nice stuff. I never fished so I'm the last to (really) criticize you.

Dudes, late notice but I'm rehijacking my thread to announce my leave until Thursday evening. I'll be in Prague, sampling local beers and eating a shitload of fastfoods. And oh yeah visiting some museums and shit too.

See you in a bit! And pray for no plane crash. To Jesus, Satan, L. Ron Hubbard, I don't care to who really. Cheerio!

Xenu, not L Ron Hubbard you hell-bound bastard!

Enjoy yourself.

Oh right, Xenu! L. Ron is just the harbinger of hell, gotcha.

And thanks, I'm back as you can see, a good few euros lighter and a swollen liver richer. But I had an amazing time. Saw a few old friends, had a few memorable nights and evenings, sampled beers, played chess while drunk (I won - hilarious checkmate ensued after I had given my queen away in the 3rd! round), read a little, saw a lot of museums (Kafka museum for one), visited the old city centre and churches, synagogues and cloisters, and the girls of course. They're so much prettier than in the West, and they actually make eye contact. It's fun.

Oh and there was this time we went into a club/bar on a Tuesday evening 10 metres from the Charles Bridge (historical landmark in the middle of the historical city centre), which was also a classy restaurant and a 4-star hotel. We go down, guy says "entry is free today", walk in, find that it's an upscale bar/club/cocktail place/strip joint. There were like 5-6 big rooms but only the central room was packed with about 30 people, and there were 4 poles with girls dancing topless and switching places every 20 minutes or so. Pretty ones too, not the Tuesday night bullet wound squad.

We were laughing our asses off. There we were, between all sorts of historical buildings, getting free entry to an upscale club with pretty strippers and barely any visitors. Lmao. The beers were expensive compared to the rest of the city of course, but still about as cheap as a normal beer in Belgium. Hahaha! Oh and you could take pics (but we didn't have a camera with us) too.

I might post some pics when I get the chance. With my face blotted out.

Hehe, sounds like a lark. Prague was it not? Oh and yeah, the girls there are pretty apprently. Me loves eastern europe

hehe, maybe that's where I need to go on vacation. With how much we spent in the strip clubs in New Orleans, we could have all kinds of fun.

Sounds like a good time, and quit being a pussy about showing your face. You may be Belgian, but at least you're not Romanian.

Yeah Derf, it was Prague.

@ Satis...haha, if I were Romanian I'd kill myself on the spot. jk

I might show my face some time. Who knows. I already promised you bitches I'd get a headset for voice com on L4D2 when I get my own place, which I think is a big enough step for now.

And what is it exactly that you have to lose? Remember that most things that are shared stay with you and that which you have withheld leaves you anyway