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Why Walk the Camino? Where? When? With whom?
Looking for a Freestanding Dome Tent for Camino Trip
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[QUOTE="David, post: 987821, member: 426"] Michelle, hi, and thanks. I was being tongue in cheek re how waterproofed it is - sorry. It is a double skin tent, freestanding dome, sewn in groundsheet, with a reverse silver coated fly with a pole that goes front to rear to make two door 'covers' and it is waterproof - but at that price not waterproof in the way an expensive tent is, cheaper material and so on. I will be spray proofing it as well, which I do with all waterproof items I buy. The fly is 180T silver coated polyester so the waterproofing will only be about 1000mm head I should think. Enough for light rain but not for serious weather, but I am going in summer this year and although I might wake up in rain I won't be pitching in horrid weather. Were I to take only the inner tent it would be 1.07 kilos and with the fly and extension pole, 1.39, which to me is a really light tent - and is quite spacious too. My reasons for using a tent with mesh screens rather than a tarp or bivvi bag (or hammock) is privacy and also exclusion of creepy crawlies - I don't like the thought of things crawling over me at night. I was tick-bit on Camino once and developed Lyme's disease. My post is specifically not about wild camping, though, there are no Camino rules re wild camping, rather general Province laws ... it is not legal but it is common. (Go to the riverbanks in any Spanish city and you will see many tents with immigrants living in them, left alone by the police). But, I have been visiting Camino since 2005 and have met many wild campers over the years, some with dogs, and not one of them had ever had any problems with police or locals or farmers - I am not recommending wild camping, merely offering what I know and I won't be doing that. If I were I certainly wouldn't be taking a bright orange tent! It isn't for every night, only when suitable, and I know of plenty of refugios that have gardens, some have campsites, plenty with verandahs, concrete parking aprons, etc - there is a bar/cafe in Rabanal that uses the field opposite. It has toilets and a couple of large marquees with mattresses, pilgrims just sleep in there, but what is really interesting is that there are always lots of single tents also pitched, which has always made me wonder just how many pilgrims do quietly carry tents. If I were more like you, Michelle, I would just take a lightweight bivvi bag and a super-light tarp and sleep easy but I am city grown and like very much to keep 'nature' separate from me when I sleep - my fail 😂. Though - your tarp idea .. it could be worth taking a real waterproof light tarp to use over it in poor weather - not a bad thought, thanks. [/QUOTE]
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