Comments on: A Good and Affordable Family Tent

By: Roy Scribner

Roy Scribner — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:32:39 +0000

Brent – great point about a huge tent. Plus, the poles on our 9×9 must be 20-feet long.

Eric – I’m torn about this, as you can through a lot of Y’all Mart $30 specials before you get to two or three hundred dollars. I think it’s worth the money to get something good, though. It doesn’t take much wind, rain, or cold to make a camping trip miserable in a cheap tent.

bnpositive – glad to help!

Steve – thanks, getting kids outdoors is an important cause.

Vegas710 – glad I could help! Checkout this week’s post on the Eureka Grand Manan, too – it’s a two-pole design, like the Mountain Hardware Casa, but the 6+ foot height is really nice.

By: Vegas710

Vegas710 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:35:53 +0000

Hey, found you on a google search for good family tents. Thanks for posting this, it was very helpful!

By: Steve Burke

Steve Burke — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:12:31 +0000

This web site/blog is similar to our efforts in breaking down the barriers to getting kids outdoors and to communicate with kids in their modern language of technology. The current discussion about nature deficit disorder misses the point about kids today. Besides the Internet there is a lot of great new technology out there including outdoor products that makes it easier, safer and a lot more interesting to be outside. Kids love technical stuff. Is it really off limits to bring an iPod or to play your Gameboy DS Lite with your dad in the tent at night? How about the new Jetboil stove that is super light, easy to use and can cook a meal for four in 15 minutes or less so that you can get on to playing Amimal Crossing on that DS. All kids today were born after the advent of the Internet and most are better at doing research and communicating about issues important to them through the medium of online technology that adults are, especially when they are outdoors. In fact technology is what they are interested in even more than “the outdoors”. One place looking at this is the new web site http://www.kidsoutdoorsonline.com. There they talk about What they did, Where they did it and How they did it (WWH) outdoors. Over time it will help break down the number one barrier to getting kids outdoors: lack of knowledge. – trails5@comcast.net

By: bnpositive

bnpositive — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:49:41 +0000

Hey thanks for the follow-up and deeper explanation. I think we'd definitely look at a 6-person tent as a minimum. The clarification on whether or not the tent has vertical side walls is also very crucial to us. Now, just need to get the money for the tent! bnpositive’s last blog post..links for 2009-01-11

By: Jim Bradley

Jim Bradley — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:29:46 +0000

I have the green river six and I would say that it is just ok... A couple things I really don't link about it, the floor is made of light weight material like you would find in a backpacking tent. More durable materials shoudl be used in car camping gear. After one outting in the tent the waterproofing (sil coating) was rubbed off in many places from the air mattress. Second, we camped in heavy rains a couple times and the water pools on the top of tent, not just a little either. I do love the screen room and the size is nice... A six foot person can stand in it... It is great to be able change easily in the tent. I think the green river 4 would have been a better choice, but I got a great deal on the 6 so I went with it... Jim Bradley’s last blog post..Weight in Week 8 & More