KNOWING A MOUNTAINEERING TENT

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The tent is one of the very major appliances must be owned by a hikers, because the tent will keep us from the weather that unfriendly.

There are many types of tents on the market. You must be careful in choosing them for extreme outdoor activities such as hiking or mountaineering.
Some of the requirements that must be owned by a decent extreme outdoor’s tent you can see below:

1.   High.

Tent for mountainering have lower contruction than a camping tent. It’s about 1 metres. Because the tent with lower consturction have better standing when exposed to strong wind.

2.   Material

Good tent have two part or double wall. Outer  and inner skin. Outer skin we call it Flysheet. Choose a Tent with nylon for Flysheet material with seam taped on each joint. Don’t choose a tent with flysheet using cotton material. Because You are in the Mountain, You don’t want to be freeze. But for inner skin you use to choose cotton material.

When you standing up the tent, Make sure that the tent have a distance between Flysheet and inner skin about one hand span. It is to prevent your inner part wet when the rain ouside part (flysheet). It will give you good respiration and isolation and keep your inner dry.  

3.   Form

When you are looking for A Mountainering tent, Avoid choosing a tent that has a gaping open section, especially the upper part, because it would be exposure to wind, because the wind and the storm is the main obstacle when in altitude.

Dome, Or Geodesic?. Dome tents are a good compromise between stability, pitching time and weight. Although not as light for their size or as quick to pitch as a tunnels they are more stable. Dome tents however tend to have less head room, their highest point being located only at one point in the centre. The lack of head room is usually worked around by adding extra poles to make space for porches or bedrooms. These add-ons are effectively single pole tunnels and have the same advantages and draw backs.  

Geodesic tents are the most stable tents available. Though heavy and complex to erect, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks if you are pitching your tent on a mountain and want it to stay there. This pole configuration is so strong that it can withstand heavy snow fall that would crush all other types of tent.

4.   Frame

Wich one frame do you need? There are 2 types of farme, Fibre glass or Aluminium. Fibre glass frame is cheaper than Aluminium Frame. But Fibre glass frame easily broken.

5.    Vestibule or Whithout Vestibule?. Vestibule is a room located in front of tent entry. With vestibule you can save your equipment there, you can cook when outside raining.

6.    Guylines

mountaineering tent certainly have straps fasteners particular section which is useful for resilience in the face of a tent in the mountain breeze. ropes are generally placed at points Of frame construction provide additional strength to frame so as not to break.

7.   The Bottom of Tent

There are many kind bottom of tent that you can find in the market. Choose the tent with waterproofing material for bottom side. You can make a footprint underneath. With adding footprint you can reduce the friction between your bottom tent with ground. You can avoid infiltration of water from bottom.

8.  Weight

Choose a tent with normalize weight for mountaineering. Remember, because you ‘ll brought so much equipment in your Backpack or sack.