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Disposable Garbage Bag Tents Are The Cleverest Way To Keep Camping Clean

Music festivals generate a lot of litter. Heaps of it. Litterally. It’s been a problem for ages, but Glad has come up with a clever design solution that solves at least part of the problem: a garbage bag tent.

6 April 2013

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Chill Out In This Breezy Beach Tent (Beach Not Included)

For Christmas I bought my nieces a tipi to play in. They’re obsessed with it, but I felt a little left, out so I’d like one of these breezy Gandia Blasco tents.

22 October 2012

Geek Out

This Floating Globe Tent Is A Cocoon For People

Want to sleep outside without having to lower yourself to sleeping on the ground? Lucky for you, there’s an extravagantly complex and probably super expensive solution called The Cocoon Tree.

10 October 2012

Gadgets

The Best And Worst Gear For Nine Days In A Dust Storm

This year I acted as an embedded reporter at Burning Man — a place of extreme temperatures, high winds and white-out dust storms. The ultra-fine alkaline dust is hell on gear — so it should be a good opportunity to test a few rugged gadgets, right?

27 August 2012

Gadgets

The Ultimate Backpacking Outfit

Backpacking gear was my original obsession with technology. For even the most minor update to my kit, I read dozens of reviews, talk to my expert comrades, and then finally try it out myself.

29 July 2012

Gadgets

Ultra-Expensive Two Pound Tent Lightens Your Backpack And Your Wallet

With its new Mojo UFO tent, Sierra Designs is hoping that campers who like to travel light are willing to spend a small fortune to shave a few pounds off their pack. Because the space-age looking shelter weighs less than two pounds, but comes with an $US1800 price tag — that’s a whopping $US450 per kilo.

2 June 2012

Gadgets

Don’t Sleep Under The Stars, Sleep In Them

Look at this tent. You just can’t glimpse it and not immediately want to pack up and go camping out under the beautiful blanket of the night sky food a few days.

4 May 2012

Cars

The Beer Moth Truck Tent Is The Ultimate In-Car Camping

If driving up to a campsite and setting up a tent is too much “roughing it” to endure, this tent/truck chimera is just what you need to enjoy the great outdoors without sacrificing the amenities of a cabin.

9 March 2012

Gadgets

This Hammock Tent Is Like A Swanky Hanging Three Bedroom Apartment

Is there anything worse than setting up camp only to have a family of bears attack, dragging off your food and other campers? That (probably!) won’t happen if you’ve packed a Tentsile tent which hangs out of the reach of predators.

7 December 2011

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Now You Can Sleep Inside A Giant Book

I’m glad someone turned something as boring and utilitarian as camping tents into something beautiful like FieldCandy’s Fully Booked tent, which is designed to look like an open book.

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