Mountain Tents

The key to an excellent camping escapade is a good camping tent. The sort of camping tent one uses depends on the type of weather, camping activity and individual preference of the camper. Mountain Tents are premeditated to a very high technical specification for the purpose of backpacking and mountain climbing in all seasons. These tents are buoyant, easy to erect and possesses outstanding weight/volume ratio as compared to its counterparts, this attribute of mountain tents provides the user with utmost safety even when the conditions are harsh.

There exist a wide variety of mountain tents, which are available for every possible environment and situation. A quality mountain tent comes with the following features:

• Sufficient and strong guying points.
• A torch or lantern loop in roof.
• Vents that can be closed (for proper ventilation, as when the fly touches the ground in order to protect the user from the weather, suffocation increases)
• They have drying /storage roof space or the choice of having one.
• Plenty of internal storage pockets.
• They come with ample storage facility, idyllically in two vestibules for easy access.

The most widespread mountain tents have the timeless dome shape that has been adopted by many manufacturers and has well proven itself. Mountain Tents comprises of sturdy structure and they are considered as the strongest among all kinds of tents. They normally use cross over poles, which makes for an aerodynamic pole structure that helps theses tents withstand severe climatic conditions like, storms. Mountaineering tents are so designed that its strength and stability of the tent comes from the poles, inner and outer tent all working together. These tents have a high degree of resistance against gales from any direction and can prevail up to the weight of snow collecting against its sides.

Mountain tents are available in 2 to 4 or more pole options. When tracking on mountainous surroundings, the 4-pole option is considered as the strongest without adding up surplus weight. Of late, some manufacturers have started to use poles with an angle in the top of the tent, in order to give the roof a pitch, however, this can make poles weak to some extent and it does not make any kind of important difference under heavy wet snow conditions. Three most popular mountain tents to use are the 4 pole, 3 pole geodesic dome tents or tunnel tents.