Backpacking Tents

• A tent is a shelter, consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles and/or ropes

• Some tent styles are free-standing, while others are attached to the ground using guy ropes tied to stakes (pegs)
• Tents were http://www.tentsforsale.org/backpacking-tents first used as portable homes by nomadic peoples, but today, their main application is for recreational camping. Modern tents are as usual mythical of fire-retardant material.

Dome tents have a express simple fabrication and are feasible in a ample discrepancy of sizes ranging from lightweight 2-person tents with limited headroom up to 6 or 9-person tents with headroom exceeding 180 cm (6 ft). These may be one wall, or single-wall with partial flysheet, or double wall. Depending on the pole arrangement, some models pitch outer-tent first, while others pitch inner-tent first