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Why do some people prefer soft shell tents?

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Did you always choose soft roof tent for your travel? For the would-be roof top tent buyer, the first of many purchasing decisions is whether to by one of the dozens of soft shell tents on the market, or to take the hefty financial plunge. For soft shell tents, there has many reasons to choose it: Soft shell tents were invented more than half a century ago, the folding soft roof top tent hasn’t changed much since inception. Materials have advanced as have refinements and features, but a tent from today looks much like those of decades prior. At the root of it, most designs “borrow” heavily from the few tents that pioneered the category. That statement is probably being too diplomatic as the outright theft of designs is rife in the RTT space. While price often correlates with quality, the individual consumer must do their due diligence to ensure their choice of tent is a sound one. All soft shell roof top tents have a common attribute, which is their folded archite

Amazing Car Top Tent

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This car top tent is one of the finest crafted car & truck tents that you can own. This car top tent  reigns supreme price wise over other more expensive vehicle tents the premium quality makes one wonder why anyone would pay more for more expensive brands.This "Bigfoot" Vehicular Shelter Model 5590 has special features and specifications that are specifically garnished by Bigfoot Roof Top Tents alone like the Duck Back Hard Shell combined with state of the art waterproof polyester giving the user maximum water protection to keep you dry in the most extreme conditions. You can literally pull your car or truck over to the side of a lake and open your tent within two minutes and be taking a peaceful nap just to awake and close it in two minutes and be on you way.Customers have commented how they like to share the space with their beloved pets like the family dog or cat.Sitting by the beach watching the waves.A tent built to last with substantial protection from the almight

Why Traveling with a Roof Top Tent?

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The Zoige, China’s biggest peat swamp area, was just one of these perfect spots to sleep in the roof top tent. Early morning we could spy on the zillions of birds that gathered around water holes. They would have flown away -or never descended in the first place -had we sat outside. But now the mosquito netting gave us the perfect camouflage. All were canvas roof tents, like you see in the picture above. We had never heard of hard-shell roof tents, or the nowadays-popular integrated version. We learned about their existence when meeting other overlanders . Below you’ll find info we gathered on pros and cons of the different types, what they have in common and what makes them unique. As I climbed in one roof top tent after the other, in stores featuring all kinds fancy off-road stuff and camping gear, I concluded that the differences among the canvas versions weren’t big. We didn’t particularly favor one over the other. Prices were all in the same range – incredibly h

Complaints About Vehicle Tents

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The  vihile tent  dream involves instantly-accessible, cabin-like comfort you can take anywhere on top of your off-roader.Canvassing users of vihile tent, we also found complaints about how loud and uncomfortable they become to sleep in during high winds. And virtually everyone mentioned how hard it is to pop out for a quick pee in the middle of the night—something that involves climbing up and down a rickety metal ladder that gets very slippery in the rain. Canvassing users of vihile tent, we also found complaints about how loud and uncomfortable they become to sleep in during high winds. And virtually everyone mentioned how hard it is to pop out for a quick pee in the middle of the night—something that involves climbing up and down a rickety metal ladder that gets very slippery in the rain. To be totally comfortable in a vihile tent, you’ll also need to ensure your vehicle is totally level when parked. That can be surprisingly difficult to achieve off-road, in the mi

Which Types of Roof Tents Will You Choose?

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Roof tents are also called roof top tents or car top tents. They can be divided into three main groups: Canvas tents that open in a clamshell-like manner. Well known brands are Dacmake. Hard shell rooftop tents that also serve as the car’s roof, like Columbus and Maggiolina. It works on a system of internal gas rams and is therefore put up and taken down even faster. A combi of the two: a canvas tent but one that is integrated in the roof of the car. It pops open on one side (generally the back), giving you a place to stand up straight in your Land Cruiser or similar-sized vehicle. What these tents have in common: The mattress, blankets and pillows can be stored inside the tent when folded up, which saves a lot of space in the vehicle. Sleeping high off the ground in a tent with mosquito netting on all sides allows for maximum ventilation, creating maximum comfort in sultry regions – or at least less uncomfortable nights than when sleeping inside the car

More fun than ever with car top tents camper

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We have to hand it to the #Team Dacmakepartners and community, you are the reason this event is such a blast, and why all of us at Dacmake Tents are so excited to put it on each year. Each year is a little different, and as we scale up, we also seem to sell out faster! Approaching the first day , we kept hearing of big storms approaching the West Coast, with our venue, Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Area, square in the middle of the mess. Some friends in the Pacific Northwest were already getting hit pretty hard, and central California was in for it, but to us, all that meant was a little more mud on the tires for wheelin’!! Sometimes you just have to put the gear to the test, and as we heard many times throughout the weekend, “I was more worried about driving here than how my tent would do!” It feels good knowing that you will have a secure, dry place above the deluge to call home each night. By mid-day Friday, folks rolled in from all over

Roof Top Tents That Make Camping Safer

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Roof top tents are more popular than ever, due to their convenience and an abundance of overlanders and adventure seeking campers. Securely attached to a rack that is positioned on the roof of a truck or car, these tents can be deployed instantly. All you have to do is simply unfold them and lower a ladder to gain access to the tent. Camping from a roof top tent provides a great vantage point, and by sleeping off the ground you'll have less to worry about when it comes to bugs and critters entering your tent. Best of all, because these tents can be setup so quickly, you can spend more time hiking or fishing. There are four main types of roof-top tents, which can open like a book and have a heavy canvas body and roof; literal “pop-ups” that have a hard top and canvas body; or those constructed completely into the vehicle as an after-market customization. You can choose your favorite roof top tents from  www.dacmake.com/roof-top-tent .