My Oztent & Foxwing
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My Oztent & Foxwing
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Re: My Oztent & Foxwing
Love that top pic
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Apart from the white stuff on top if them thar hills, reminds me winter is only few months away!! Not that we've seen much of this oop norf!
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Ok, at the risk of starting to sound like an old fart and this starting to sound like me and jetboils, I don't get the big excitement of the Oz tents.
The reasons I don't get it are:
They are heavy (fine for car camping though)
They don't fold small at all - most that I see have to go on the roof
The design doesn't look stable. I drive a D3 so I know that squarish boxes and wind aren't the best combination.
The price - huge amounts of money for a small tent
You can get some bloody good mountain tents a lot cheaper, pack up smaller, lighter, definitely able to cope with much stronger winds / rain and they are cheaper. The only thing I can see if that the Oz tents are taller.
So why are Oz tents so good why do you guys buy them and love them? P.S. the quick pitching isn't much of a selling point to me either I have a £50 pop up that is quicker to pitch and probably better in high winds, and even full geodesic mountain tent can be pitched in 5 mins.
The reasons I don't get it are:
They are heavy (fine for car camping though)
They don't fold small at all - most that I see have to go on the roof
The design doesn't look stable. I drive a D3 so I know that squarish boxes and wind aren't the best combination.
The price - huge amounts of money for a small tent
You can get some bloody good mountain tents a lot cheaper, pack up smaller, lighter, definitely able to cope with much stronger winds / rain and they are cheaper. The only thing I can see if that the Oz tents are taller.
So why are Oz tents so good why do you guys buy them and love them? P.S. the quick pitching isn't much of a selling point to me either I have a £50 pop up that is quicker to pitch and probably better in high winds, and even full geodesic mountain tent can be pitched in 5 mins.
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and don't they get even heavier when wet...?Stu wrote:They are heavy (fine for car camping though)
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Re: My Oztent & Foxwing
That top picture, if it had a small camping table with a glass of wine/beer and a small dish of nibbles, would be probably the best D3 pic I've ever seen.
As it is, it still comes pretty close....
As it is, it still comes pretty close....
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Re: My Oztent & Foxwing
yep, I really like that first pic too ... that was taken in Norway
I guess you either like oztents or you dont ... personally I like them, especially with the Foxwing as you can zip them together and it gives fantastic coverage
I guess you either like oztents or you dont ... personally I like them, especially with the Foxwing as you can zip them together and it gives fantastic coverage
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I like the fox wing I think it's a good bit of kit from what I've seen of it. I also like their chairs. (I have one of them)
Just the tents that don't seem to be that good. If they folded to half the size so you could just stick them in the boot easily I'd think they would be a lot better. Maybe I will explain this to them at Peterborough!
Just the tents that don't seem to be that good. If they folded to half the size so you could just stick them in the boot easily I'd think they would be a lot better. Maybe I will explain this to them at Peterborough!
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Stu,
I can see why an OzTent would be attractive.
As I was driving through Lyndhurst at 1 mph with the rain on top of us and half of the trip left to go, I was seriously not looking forward to spending a couple of hours putting up our little pup tent with hundreds of moving parts in the wet/cold/wind. We got to the point where we were seriously looking to turn around and go home, as it seemed (as great as you guys are) that a weekend away was not quite worth the five hour drive plus two-hour erection of a tent I couldn't even stand up in (I'm still fighting a crick in my neck from all the bending I had to do to get things in and out of the tent).
Most of my trepidation about camping came from having to put up the tent. I absolutely hate the tent I have, and if I can replace 2 hours of cursing, and frustration, in a tent that has problems keeping in the heat, with five minutes of erection, then I would probably go camping more frequently (rather than once every four years), thus justifying the cost of an expensive OzTent.
For me it would be well-justified. For SWMBO, she needs a bit more convincing, but then, she usually sulks in the car for a couple hours while I put up the tent.
I can see why an OzTent would be attractive.
As I was driving through Lyndhurst at 1 mph with the rain on top of us and half of the trip left to go, I was seriously not looking forward to spending a couple of hours putting up our little pup tent with hundreds of moving parts in the wet/cold/wind. We got to the point where we were seriously looking to turn around and go home, as it seemed (as great as you guys are) that a weekend away was not quite worth the five hour drive plus two-hour erection of a tent I couldn't even stand up in (I'm still fighting a crick in my neck from all the bending I had to do to get things in and out of the tent).
Most of my trepidation about camping came from having to put up the tent. I absolutely hate the tent I have, and if I can replace 2 hours of cursing, and frustration, in a tent that has problems keeping in the heat, with five minutes of erection, then I would probably go camping more frequently (rather than once every four years), thus justifying the cost of an expensive OzTent.
For me it would be well-justified. For SWMBO, she needs a bit more convincing, but then, she usually sulks in the car for a couple hours while I put up the tent.