Tent for one person - any advice welcome

[WetAugust]

I want to do a lot of camping on my own.

I'm looking for a largish tent that provides sufficient headroom for me (5'3"), so am looking at family sized tents such as the Atakama and Corado.

I've been advised to avoid tents where the poles cross each other i.e. dome tents as they say I wouldn't be able to pitch this singlehandedly as someone is needed inside the tent to raise it from underneath.

I've been advised to stick to tunnel tents such as the Rock 4. It would provide the space I'm looking for.

Does anyone have any experience of pitching a family sized tunnel tent on their own? Do you think it's possible or will I just have to accept that being on my own means I have to get a low headroom tent I have to crawl in and out of .

Any experience or advice will be welcome. Thank you.

I will have to look at that. I love my tent in fact I love most tents. I also have a huge canvas Kampa Studland bought with the Ex but it was hard enough to pitch with 2 of us so I had no chance doing that one on my own.

That's probably the only advantage of having a DP/DH - you can have a bigger tent!

Personally, I prefer a smaller tent with no male backage

WetAugust - good plan re trial pitch - I just did ours in the spare room. Disaster! No room to collapse it again! DS was trapped underneath it giving incomprehensible instructions from the text-free diagram.

Spare room! I shall need a warehouse to accommodate this monster!

It arrived today. It was so large my elderly neighbour who met the courier for me couldn't even lift it!

I plan to trial pitch it as soon as the weather improves.

Spent a lovely few hours in the camping shop today buying 'furnishings' for it (including fold-up bike that I just couldn't resist)

Who said camping whas a cheap option?

Hiya, i was in the same situation as you and i ended up purchasing a small 2 man tent which didn't have enough space so i purchased a cheapy 4 man tent from www.hillfieldscampingandleisure.co.uk . It is Orange and Grey with 2 rooms which is perfect, the qualities good and it does the job.