lightweight camping

Having used my new Vango Banshee 200 tent for a week I have made a few small alterations.

Pegs

I changed the supplied pegs out for:

• 9 18cm titanium wire pegs – to peg down the tent
• 4 18cm aluminium tri-stakes – for the four guylines
• 2 small MSR tri-stakes – for the door elastic guys to make it easier to fasten the doors down

Footprint

I did not buy a footprint a 2m x 1m taro from the camping shop does (almost) the same job, for a fraction of the price. The bottom 40cm of the narrow foot of the tent ground sheet is exposed and needed wiping off.

Door strap

The strap across the door is only fitted to the porch side of the tent.

To make the tent easier to put up I tied the correct length of paracord to the tent straps on the door side of the tent.

I can now pull the tent from the foot and get the tension between both sides balanced easier and more accurately.

Size

This may be a two person tent according to the Duke of Edinburgh scheme specification and Go Outdoors – but it is not a “normal use” two adult tent. It is a generous one person tent.