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Glad you like your tent but, honestly I would not recommend to anyone to take a tent on the Camino, at least not in Spain or Portugal.
Why not recommend taking a tentGlad you like your tent but, honestly I would not recommend to anyone to take a tent on the Camino, at least not in Spain or Portugal.
No need to stay in camp grounds. Which are hard to find on the Camino anyway.Sure, we perfectly understand that it is not for everybody but for someone like us who loves to stay outdoors and in the campgrounds it is very necessary.
What is wrong with tent camping along the Camino where you can? I have observed many pilgrims do it, quite often staying in the grounds of an albergue.Glad you like your tent but, honestly I would not recommend to anyone to take a tent on the Camino, at least not in Spain or Portugal.
Why do you NOT recommend such?Glad you like your tent but, honestly I would not recommend to anyone to take a tent on the Camino, at least not in Spain or Portugal.
Good , fair, reply. ThanksSure, tent camping at albergues is fine, but @Island is still entitled to recommend against it even while you recommend for it. I didn't hear "tent hating" in his response. I personally wouldn't recommend it either, and I have backpacked (tent and hammock) for all my life in the Colorado Rockies, so I am not a hater and I don't speak from ignorance.
Wild tenting is a different thing, and it's a lot more than just about fires. So, carry your tent by all means if that is what you would like to do, but pitch it at the albergues rather than on public or private land.
Well spoken!My recommendation of carrying a tent and camping of course includes the responsibility and courtesy that if you do, to do it
trace free. Fire free.
Like I said, not everyone can afford the gentrification of the Camino.
No need to stay in camp grounds. Which are hard to find on the Camino anyway.
When one can easily, and legally, tent camp at most alburgues.
These anti tent camping ones on here seem to have no earthly idea about what is really going on on the Camino and the alburgues.
I have always been welcomed with open arms at the alburgues to sleep outside in my tent.
So long as it's legal (which would exclude trespassing on private land), I agree.My recommendation of carrying a tent and camping of course includes the responsibility and courtesy that if you do, to do it
trace free. Fire free.
Like I said, not everyone can afford the gentrification of the Camino.
Read my comments where to buy in Seville.Hi Marty, Im starting VDLP in late April .. im carrying a lightweight tent .. Is there anywhere in Seville that i can get a small gas cylinder for my stove ? ( small screw-in type )
Thanks
Read my comments where to buy in Seville.
posted above.
You will find many locations in Seville to buy the canisters.
Great you are tenting some on the Via.
sure many will think you committed a cardinal sin.
you will enjoy the alburgues much more in your own tent
You say this is the best budget two person tent. What were the other tents you compared it too, and what did they cost?
Rick, as with all of your other comments/posts, thanks and good job.Previously I wrote a detailed explanation about the types of gas canisters available to ensure that someone walking the camino would have the right type of stove to match the available fuel and, if not, what converters would be needed.
The thread is at https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/buying-camper-stove-fuel-on-the-trail.42513/
My best reply is on the same thread here: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...er-stove-fuel-on-the-trail.42513/#post-435047
IMHO, I like the REI QUATER DOME one person tent.You say this is the best budget two person tent. What were the other tents you compared it too, and what did they cost?
So you have no basis for claiming it is 'best'? Pity.It is just one of our first tents that we´ve been using for two years now since we started backpacking so we don´t really have much to compare with. We have been just comparing the information about different tents on the web and we do think that it is a quite budget tent and its quality is really nice for the time period we´ve been using it. So this is all can be subjective of course and based on own´s personal experience. That´s why we are interested in exploring other options too and would appreciate any advice and other tent suggestions.
Call me old fashioned, but I was expecting anyone making such claims to have made the effort to do actual, in use, comparisons.Best budget tent to take is the one you like.
Mmmm thanks for this info.The OP has, in other threads, multiple threads, posted their videos and expressed their opinions - including the one where they opined that the Camino was not for them.
However, they have posted again on a forum devoted to the Caminos and have no doubt scored a few more hits on Utube (other social media sites may be available).
Members are free to completely ignore this self-serving b8llocks if they wish
It's just advertising hyperbole!!At close to 2kg this tent hardly qualifies as ultralight!
BC SY
I agree with you @Albertagirl , I see no benefit from carrying a tent on the Spanish Caminos or in Italy on the way to Rome. But.... walking through France in Summer , (on the way to the Holy Land), it was really useful as there was little accommodation available and what there was was already booked ahead by holidaymakers. Also useful in Germany and further - until the bad weather (no, horrid!) made me send it all back home! Fair weather camper, me!I am an experienced camper, but I would not choose to camp on a camino in Europe, in an albergue or elsewhere.
The OP has, in other threads, multiple threads, posted their videos and expressed their opinions - including the one where they opined that the Camino was not for them.
However, they have posted again on a forum devoted to the Caminos and have no doubt scored a few more hits on Utube (other social media sites may be available).
Members are free to completely ignore this self-serving b8llocks if they wish
But then you are a genuine long-distance pilgrim. I am a mere amateur in comparison, having walked no route longer than the VdlP, and now being unlikely to do so. If I decided to try, I might try to carry some form of shelter, but I hope that it would be for emergency use only. I carried an ultra-light shelter when travelling in New Zealand and found that it kept out the rain but kept in the moisture of my breathing, so was not ideal. I am also, by preference, a fair weather camper.I agree with you @Albertagirl , I see no benefit from carrying a tent on the Spanish Caminos or in Italy on the way to Rome. But.... walking through France in Summer , (on the way to the Holy Land), it was really useful as there was little accommodation available and what there was was already booked ahead by holidaymakers. Also useful in Germany and further - until the bad weather (no, horrid!) made me send it all back home! Fair weather camper, me!
My tent was much lighter than the OP’s btw
You walked in N-Z?But then you are a genuine long-distance pilgrim. I am a mere amateur in comparison, having walked no route longer than the VdlP, and now being unlikely to do so. If I decided to try, I might try to carry some form of shelter, but I hope that it would be for emergency use only. I carried an ultra-light shelter when travelling in New Zealand and found that it kept out the rain but kept in the moisture of my breathing, so was not ideal. I am also, by preference, a fair weather camper.
@Robo check out zpacks. I don’t have one but would like to try one - to go in my Radical Designs trailer.
The OP has, in other threads, multiple threads, posted their videos and expressed their opinions - including the one where they opined that the Camino was not for them.
However, they have posted again on a forum devoted to the Caminos and have no doubt scored a few more hits on Utube (other social media sites may be available).
Members are free to completely ignore this self-serving b8llocks if they wish
At close to 2kg this tent hardly qualifies as ultralight!
BC SY
You'd love them. My personal tent is their Duplex, which is far more roomy than the tent the OP posted about. And my Duplex weighs in at 15 ounces (0.43 kg), compared to the OPs 'ultralight' 4.5 pound (2.05 kg) tent.
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A separate note to self:
I see that the OP never claimed his tent was "ultralight". That label is the manufacturer's deceptive name for the product.
For Camino I would not carry a tent at all if I was camping along the way. I would use a tough plastic film like polycro, along with trekking poles, to make tarp shelters. Effective against rain, and for a roomy shelter, the material itself weighs 2 to 4 ounces.
Unlike a typical plastic tarp, polycro is not something I consider disposable, as it is a tough plastic that wears well and will last for years.
I carried a tent on the Frances in 84, but then there wasn't the Albergues like now and if there was I couldn't afford them. It originally weighed 1.6k/2lb but I only used the flysheet and made some other adaptions so it weighed less than half that, the only problem I found was getting pegs in the ground. I remember I had to share it for a night with a couple of tourist girls who couldn't find any accommodation.
I'm surprised that there is not a network of campsites along the way, I think the locals are missing an opportunity. It's easier and cheaper to set up a campsite, just a field or garden, water tap and composting toilet and might help prevent wild camping, and also the bed race in busy times, as many carry a poncho and trekking poles which make grand shelters without any extra weight. I'm sure there are many who would prefer a tent to hot, noisy, smelly albergues.
Yes, it is not ultralight at all in comparison with the Zpacks or alike tents and it is just what stated the manufacturer. We think we would like to try Zpacks in the wild to see how we like it even though it is not self-standing tent of course. Apart from the price we are concerned about it being warm and isolated enough for the colder weather as we are used to have double walls with little mosquito nets and still we were cold sometimes so it is something we are worried about.
That post was about expressing our honest opinion about our own personal experience with Camino and we didn´t say in the video itself that it wasn´t for us. We enjoyed it very much and would love to do another Caminos in the future just in our own way doing lots of alternatives as we did with the Norte. The name of the thread we agree may be a bit "outrageous" so to say. And we do support the idea of everybody's expressing their opinion that's why we share our posts in the first place.
I agree with Tincatinker for a few reasons. I have seen copies of your threads appear on other forums and websites. Of course there is YouTube as well. It feels like you are working toward trying to monetize your media and social media projects. . . which is not a bad thing in and of itself.
The other thing that really catches my attention is the fact that, outside of your own sporadic threads that you start, once that thread cools off and participation dies, you are nowhere to be found. I may very well be wrong, but I have never read a post by you on someone else's thread. You don't offer advice on other threads, or offer commentary, or . . .
And it is the same on the other media sites: you post your subject topic, and ignore active participation elsewhere.
The beauty of this Forum is how people actively participate and interact with others. By doing Hit and Run thread postings, you are missing out on so much that the Forum provides.
What?Never bring a tent on the camino, the ground is too hard and it is a pain to get up off the floor 3 or 4 times to go to the bathroom when you are my age!!!!!
Maybe for you may friend but when you are pushing 66 you lay down on the floor and it may be days before you get up off the floor again!!!!!!!! I honestly think everyone should walk the way they want. If you want to bring a tent go for it and tent up lay down and have a good night's sleep under the stars! If you like it then do it!!!! That is what is perfect for you.What?
never bring a tent?
soft groundout back of most alburgues.
And use a pad
again wonder why people say no tents on Camino???
Yes, and your names tend to be too long. That doesn't get you off to a good start here!The name of the thread we agree may be a bit "outrageous"
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