How to improve your trail life, 18 TENT HACKS !
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- When you're working hard on the trail, you will be looking forward to setting up your home for the night to maximise your rest and recovery. Many factors will contribute to the quality of that rest so you need to know every trick in the book. I'm here with 18 tent hacks that will contribute to that goal giving you glorious rest so that you are fresh for the following days hike.
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These hacks save money, time and improve the quality of your camping experience and can be equally applied to most tents. However, I am also interest in what is your favourite hack ? Or just share your thoughts/ideas/feedback in the comments below. Thanks
As always very very useful video full of great hacks! Thank you so much for sharing!
Glad you like them!
The water bottle hack as a great idea
Yep, it's so simple but very useful, cheers
I liked your ideas and have subscribed immediately !
It has been too long since I actually slept in a tent , but I can some stories . One thing to mention that costs little and made a difference for me was to use some kind of flexible material , thick rubber bands or bungee cord maybe , on guy lines .
Welcome aboard, and thanks for the idea. Cheers, Nigel
I'm a new patron in your library of hacks 😊 - thank you for sharing your experience.
Welcome aboard and glad you enjoyed them. Cheers, Nigel
Thanks for another interesting video Nigel with some great tips.
Glad you enjoyed the video Richard. Cheers, Nigel
Thank you Nigel for these tips , it’s always interesting to see how other people overcome the challenges, it all goes a long way to make any trip more memorable 👍
Absolutely and glad you found it interesting. Cheers, Nigel
thank you
Your welcome 😁
good tips :)
Glad you like them! Cheers
Nigel,
Having only ever been in a tent for the odd family holiday when I was young, and once as a "stay at home garden camping holiday" a few years back during COVID, I would never have thought of most of these. They are great hacks that I certainly will put into practise when I begin doing some wild, and not so wild, camping in upcoming walking holidays.
Also, I was not aware of the zip lubricant and cleaner product, which I will now purchase to attempt to loosen the jammed hip pocket zips of my favourite day pack (which is probably only around 5 years old).
Cheers,
Ryk.
Glad you found them interesting Ryk. Cheers, Nigel
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Thanks 😁
Some great tips. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Hi and thanks for the tips , im always away in my motorhome ,but my son has just got a tent so i will pass on the tips 👌
Glad to help and thanks for doing a share.
Nice tips - many thanks and best wishes
Thank you too!
Some good tips. I tie a long bright cord to all my tent stakes, and if its very windy I use the loop on the cord to loop around the tent cord so it has no chance of coming off. You can double up tent stakes that way too. I see your point of having the door open, but you risk putting the tent up incorrectly if you dont close it before you stake it out.
Thanks appreciate the ideas. A fair point re the door. I should have said don’t forget to close once you’ve put your bag in! Cheers, Nigel
I use the same type of tent pegs as you and they can hurt your hand. I went to B & Q and bought a white plastic plumber's 'T' junction that they use for joining pipes together. I keep losing plastic caps.
Well that’s an interesting idea, will have to check out B&Q. Thanks for the tip. Cheers, Nigel
Very helpful thanks. What make is your hooded jacket?
Hi Sue, the waterproof jacket is inov8 and the puffy is Montane, which are both hooded so was not sure which one you meant. I have been buying from both brands interchangeably, depending what sales they have on when I'm looking for a particular item. By signing up to their newsletters you can generally get decent discounts. Hope that helps and always happy to answer further questions, cheers. Nigel
@AmblingTrails Thanks. It was the puffy I was interested in. Will have a look for it.
I tied neon pink ribbons to the end of my peg strings
Sounds a great idea, thanks for sharing. Cheers, Nigel
Thanks. I discovered the bottle top for the pegs not long ago - that’s a great one. Another is carrying a small sponge for taking off dew or rain drops from the fly in the morning when packing up - works a treat.
Yep, that’s a good one, the weight of the water on the fly far exceeds the small sponge. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼😁