You shouldn't leave your tarp out the front of the tent like that. It just serves as a collection spot for the rain and funnels under your tent. You should roll the tarp underneath the tent so it doesn't collect rain.
I feel for ya. I remember a lot of bad hailstorms about 4-5 yrs ago in Colorado Springs. Youd look out on the market parking lot and youd just see dents, lol.
It is sad that this person did not show us him living in what is suppose to be a great tent, all we see is a car and hear this man talking crazy. This should have been a golden moment to show off this tent, how this weather could not effect the way people could have a life in bad weather in this tent. We just watched a car.(LOL)
It didn't leak at all during that storm but the next year we got hit really hard and it actually leaked for the first time. I took it to Cabela's here in Glendale Arizona and they gave me a new tent for free due to the lifetime warranty. Its $1,000 tent and with that warranty I can't complain. The new one has held up spectacularly.
That’s not REAL hail.... you’ll be just fine. I used to chase storms on a regular basis. Until you see hail the size of baseballs softballs grapefruit or even larger..THAT my friend is real hail. Where your camp was set up, I personally would have been more concerned with being fried to a crisp by a lightning strike... all those damn trees nearby. Sorry for any tiny dings on your brand new car tho...RIP
Ya, because that's what I want while camping, baseball size hail lol. I lived in Indiana, seen that hail, reason I now live in AZ. As for the lightning, I've been through worse in the AZ high country. I can't remember if someone has ever been struck. Arizona has the largest continuous pine forest in the nation. Look it up. Goes from west of Flaggstaff all the way to NM. We're more than just desert. Have a great day.
being new to tent camping I'm very impressed how your shower and sleeping tents withstood the rain and hail while you were on the Rim. they didn't move!
In those Arizona mountains you're dealing with tremendous heat in the summer time along with strong thermal uplift which takes moisture up condenses and then over develops . I know this cuz I'm a hang glider pilot of 17 years and this is micro meteorology at its best
I've camped north of the San Francisco peaks in February with a wood-burning stove in this tent. Check out my video of me camping on the Verde River in February by the sheep's bridge crossing I did at another time. I had just bought that car and that's the reason I acted that way.
Hahahaha. This was the one video I kinda flipped out on. I had just bought that car. My camping rig now is a 94 explorer. I'll post more videos soon. Heading to the Verde River next weekend for a couple days in a smaller tent. I wish I took a video when I was camping north of the San Francisco peaks in February a couple years ago. Snowy and cold.
