#Shade tent how to#

A camping bed frame (you can google up one from Coleman) that keeps your mattress off the floor really helps keep the dust down on your bed, and makes you feel like you're sleeping in more of a normal bed. Keep frequently-used things like sunscreen and sunglasses near the entrance of the tent, so you can grab them without setting foot inside the tent. Keep things in tubs or a set of plastic drawers if you have space. By the end of the week, it can otherwise be absolutely maddening looking for that you know you had somewhere otherwise. Your tent will feel a lot bigger if you can keep it organized. Just make sure you have a way to vent it properly. I feel like that may be overkill given that you're in a tent but to each her own. If you can secure an electrical connection via a camp-wide grid or plug into a personal generator, you could run an air conditioner in your tent. A Burner known as Figjam has an excellent guide for building your own here.В I built one for my Shiftpod in 2017, and it didn't do much to cool the interior (too much airspace in the shiftpod vs the swampcooler's ability to move cooler air in), but when I stuck the flexible dryer ducting the cool air was coming out of under the sheets on my cot, it was almost too cold. They're also cheap and easy to make yourself. (More to come.) They're cheap to power and cheap to buy. They require two things: a dry environment (such as Black Rock Desert), and air circulation. Swamp Coolers.В These work via moisture and evaporation.This is fairly obvious, but if you can power a fan, you can cool yourself a bit! You can google yourself battery-powered fans if you don't have a way to plug one in. Shade clothВ - Perhaps not quite as good as aluminet, but cheaper and with much the same advantages.

#Shade tent how to#

Monkey Hut -В As good as and possibly better than a carport, depending on various factors.В Good instructions on how to build one yourselfВ here.But, you pretty much need to be Bay Area-based to avail yourselves of them, as you have to physically pick up the gear. The option I use is from Blackrock Hardware - they're Burners and the proceeds from their (fairly popular) canopy sales go to support their Empire of Dirt camp. Just set it up over your tent and stake it down very security with rebar.Д¬ostco sells a very popular 10' x 20' carport.

It's basically a light steel frame canopy with a heavy fabric ceiling and with optional fabric walls.

Carport-style structure- An excellent option at the expense of it being more hassle to set up and transport.

If you like to go out at night, however, that's probably not so great.ДЇour (of multiple) options for shade over your tent are: If you're not a night person, that's probably ok. Without shade, it will be an oven by 8:30 am. When the sun comes up on the playa, your tent will start to heat up. If there's just one of you, Kodiak offers a 10x10 that'd also be nice, though personally I'd still go for the 10x14. You'll see a lot of Kodiak tents out there for a reason. It's easy to set up, has some great features (like an overhead storage net, lots of ringlets around the top to hang things from), and is generally an awesome tent. It's completely waterproof (discovered that Monday morning this year when it was raining on the playa) and almost completely dust-proof when sealed up. It's very strong, of excellent quality, and will last you a lifetime if you take care of it. A 10'x14' Kodiak Deluxe (pictured above)В which runs around $650. I've used two different tents out there, with two of us to a tent.ДЎ.

Good, strong zippers.В The playa dust can cake onto zippers and you want one that you can really yank on if necessary, without risking breaking it or tearing your tent.

If you need to, you can always cover mesh panels on your tent with some other fabric and strong tape, or via sewing fabric over the them. You're never going to keep your tent 'clean' for a week, but there's a giant difference after only a single dust storm between a tent that's relatively protected against the dust and one that's not, where you can expect everything in the tent to have a fine, visible layer of dust over it, at best. The key is to make sure that any mesh openings in your tent also have a solid material flap that zippers over them. Myself, I don't like living in a pile of dust after two days, so dust-proof matters to me. Whether this is important depends on your dust tolerance. You can roll the dice, and you'll probably be ok.until you aren't. I lay on my comfy camping bed enjoying the cool temperature and the sound of the rain, bone-dry. In 2014, it full-on stormed on Monday morning.

Yes, it does actually rain out there sometimes, and when it does rain, having a dry place for your things and you to be is very desirable.