If your trips fall into the adventure camping category – wild camping, trekking, backpacking, cycling, canoeing, etc – rather than simple holidays, then you’ll need a more technical tent.
Adventure tents can be for one, two, three or, occasionally, four people, and tend to be more expensive than mainstream models because of the technical materials used for fabrics, poles and pegs.
In backpacking tents, the lightweight materials used are designed to allow you to carry the tent in a rucksack or on your bike and they can usually be pitched very quickly. They don’t have much space inside to do anything but sleep, but most have small vestibule areas at the front or side where you can store gear overnight and cook with some shelter.
For cycle and motorcycle camping,…
