How to Choose a Tent Based on Your Activity

Choose a Tent as per your intended activity

  1. Mountaineering: These tents (4 season tents) are designed to withstand extreme windy, rainy and snowy conditions. They have full outers that extend right to the bottom. Inner tents have lesser mesh panels. Now with Ultra light fabrics and Aluminium alloy poles, these tents too are light weight.
  2. Trekking & Backpacking: These tents (3 season tents) are lighter and are perfect not only for pleasant weather but also hot and humid conditions.
    Use of mesh panels makes them extremely well ventilated and ideal for star gazing on a clear night.
  3. Camping: These tents (2 season) are more roomy and many have standing height giving you the luxury of space in the outdoors.
  4. Size: Tents are categorized as 2 man, 4 man, 6-8 man depending on the occupancy of people that will stay in the tent.
  5. Weight: Camping tents are roomy and spacious and tend to be heavier, however here weight factor does not matter much. In Trekking and Mountaineering tent weight is a very crucial factor.Weight mainly depends on below parameters:
    • Size/Capacity of Tent
    • Material
    • Poles
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