I purchased a budget model gander mountain branded blue 3p budget tent in 2017 during the liquidation sale, and it has served me well for almost 10 years, but Friday night as my wife was setting it up she broke a tent pole! I jammed the broken end of the pole into the connector, and splinted the splintering pole with a green switch of buckthorn and a bunch of tape, but old blue isn’t long for this world, and I’m afraid it’s time to put old blue down. This tent isn’t our biggest, or our most expensive, but it was the first tent my wife and I started camping together in, and currently the only tent we have for backpacking that fits both of us and the dog. I guess it’s time to shell out $500 for a new 3p backpacking tent. Feel free to recommend your favorite. Drink to the memory of old blue this weekend!
by ReeeSchmidtywerber
3 Comments
You know you can buy replacement poles from Amazon?
Reason I mention it is that my wife revived an old Sierra Designs Comet 3 I had and she went and researched the poles and we made a new set and washed the old waterproofing out with ammonia and retreated it… Brought that old tent back to life and we have gone 5 trips in it since
Get some replacement poles, you might even find some that are lighter.
If the pole is the only problem, get new ones and keep it. I still have a lump in my throat remembering our first tent.