Saturday, October 19, 2013

Wenzel Pine Ridge 10-by-8 Foot Four-to-Five-Person 2-Room Dome Tent


Experience the great outdoors with the Wenzel Pine Ridge. Sleeping four to five it has a tent body of Weather Armor polyester with a polyurethane coating that provides water resistance and resistance to UV-Rays making it both tough and reliable. The tub style, polyethylene floor features welded seams to combat water seepage. The removable fly is hooped at the front and rear for weather protection. Setting up and breaking down are quick and easy with a shockcorded fiberglass frame with grommet pole attachment. The mesh window, doors and roof combine to create cross breeze. For storage use the two hanging pockets, and for privacy the hanging divider curtain. Specifications: • Base: 10 ft. x 8 ft. • Center Height: 60 in. • Area: 80 sq. f...
  • 4- to 5-person, 2-room family dome tent ideal for smaller families
  • Weather Armor polyester construction with polyurethane coating
  • 2 mesh doors, 1 mesh window, and mesh roof for cross breeze
  • Shock-corded fiberglass poles and grommet attachment system for easy setup
  • Hanging divider curtain; measures 10 x 5 x 8 feet (W x H x D)

This Family Camping Tents give to us some advantages, like this :
1. design flaw or defective?
on the plus side, it didn't leak in a severe rain storm and has a lot of capacity for the cost. on the negative, the zippers were constantly getting snagged on the fringe around them...it was ridiculous to have to keep untangling it every time i opened and closed the tent. maybe i had a defective one, but it seemed more like a design flaw. i've had great luck with wenzel tents in the past (cheap and usually very reliable), but i'd skip this model. the door's zipper eventually got so snagged that i had to cut it out in order to have some kind of functioning door, and the tent got ended up getting abandoned after one use. displeased.

2. Good for the price; time will tell
Just received this tent yesterday; my husband (who has experience erecting dome tents) was able to put it up alone. I have tent camped since I was a small child, am now >50 and am no stranger to tents. This is a decent tent for the money.

The Pros:

Easy set up

Excellent "bath tub" bottom which is weld seamed ......... the bottom is polyethylene which is much more
durable than nylon taffeta which is very commonly used. The bath tub style bottom comes up about 4" from the
bottom, wrapping along all sides of the tent. It is not sewn .......... it is "welded" somehow (hot pressed glue
perhaps?); there are no thread seams on the bottom edges of the tent - very important if it rains! (" The sonic-sealed,
polyethylene tub-style floor, meanwhile, is welded and not sewn, eliminating needle holes that might otherwise attract
water seepage.") This was the primary reason I purchased this tent, other than the reasonable...

Need more appointment... ?
design flaw or defective?
on the plus side, it didn't leak in a severe rain storm and has a lot of capacity for the cost. on the negative, the zippers were constantly getting snagged on the fringe around them...it was ridiculous to have to keep untangling it every time i opened and closed the tent. maybe i had a defective one, but it seemed more like a design flaw. i've had great luck with wenzel tents in the past (cheap and usually very reliable), but i'd skip this model. the door's zipper eventually got so snagged that i had to cut it out in order to have some kind of functioning door, and the tent got ended up getting abandoned after one use. displeased.
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