What is

[PrettyCandles]

a 'pup tent'?

[DartmoorMama]

a little tent that you pitch close to your normal tent. The kind of thing kids might stay in if they want to feel important and inndependent.

[Slubberdegullion]

stands for pop up tent, and as Dartmoor says they tend to be the little 1 or 2 man ones you see pitched next to bigguns, or at festivals.

[PrettyCandles]

So when a campsite website says "No pup tents except by arrangement with site manager", do they mean that you can only have one tent per pitch?

I thought pup tent meant a tent for a dog - like a sort of travelling kennel! But it didn't quite make sense in the context.

[ChippyMinton]

A pup tent is a small version of a ridge tent intended for 2 or 3 people. It usually has a rectangular floor of size ranging from 4 ft by 6 ft up to 6 ft by 8 ft, and ridge heights ranging from 3 ft up to 5 ft. The side walls are usually about 1 ft high. There are guy ropes for each pole, at each corner, and in the centre of each side, and these guy ropes help to maintain the required shape. Earlier versions had a single upright pole at each end, while later versions often have two poles at each end, arranged rather like an 'A' shape, in order to make access easier. Some models have a horizontal ridge pole joining the tops of the end poles to support the centre of the tent.

that's the wiki definition. Sorry slubbers but you made me with your Pop U P

[Slubberdegullion]

but it stands for Pop Up doesn't it? I'm sure thats FACT on ukcs.

Otherwise it would be just a 1 man ridge tent...or a OMRT tent.

(Omrt is a noise that I make if I come out of my understairs cupboard at an obtuse angle and graze my T12 vertebrae on the low down door frame btw)

[Whizzz]

It'sn ot a tent for a small dog then

[Lucycat]

I'm with you slubber on the pop up malarkey - dd's did think a real pup lived in one last summer when we were doing our tour of the site and spotted one.....

I ahve seen a Rottweiler in his own tent though.

[Lucycat]

he was with 'people' though - not camping on his own.

lol at little camping stove with dog frying bacon......

[MehgaLegs]

PC - are you going to Tristram in Polzeath too or do most campsites have that rule? trsitram has a lot of rules.

I thought it meant small pop up tent for kids.

[Whizzz]

Blimey - a Rottweiler deserves it's own tent!

[Lucycat]

especially when the owners had a Bear Lake - I struggle to let the dd's in Lakey!

[Slubberdegullion]

Now this is a tent for a dog

Yes, I have the catalogue by my loo. Yes I have considered it for a camping alternative to the naughty step.

[Whizzz]

[Slubberdegullion]

I like that that tent is for a Mountaneering Dog. Heavens only knows where you'd put a lard arsed dog that mostly enjoyed playing on the x-box and eating natchos.

[mamasaid]

What's a Bear Lake, LC?

[Slubberdegullion]

OH NO! Youv'e opened the floodgates mamasaid. Now Lucycat will be going on and on and on about the Outwell Lakes and their plaid curtains, and how lovely and stong and brave and spacious they are.

[Slubberdegullion]

Bear Bloody Lake

[Lucycat]

one of these beauties £600 worth of tent!

[Slubberdegullion]

pmsl we linked the same. Do you have it bookmarked.

I don't.



[lie]

[Lucycat]

feck off slubber you canvas-lovin-aldi tarp-ownin... ooh you awful.....but i loves ya

[Lucycat]

np i don't have it bookmarked either - that's my story and i'm stickin to it

[Slubberdegullion]

awww, well you're not too bad yourself LC.

You know and I was so trying to start a friday night classic kick off on a camping thread (a first).

Polycottons vs Canvas vs Nylon: the gloves are OFF!

will never happen. Campers are far to chilled out for such things.

[Slubberdegullion]

I have had a large cider so if you fancy a tent ruck, I'm game.

[Lucycat]

i'm on the pink vino tonight!

[Slubberdegullion]

I thought as much. Only the polycotton weaklings would drink pink wine.