Interesting thread on colours, I wonder why the latest Outwell tents are all Mocca / beige, especially as someone else who posted earlier said they attract the insects!!!
High performance, 5 season (?) tents are usually of a very bright colour, i.e. orange or red, for safety.
If you find yourself up the side of a mountain in a snow blizzard you have a better chance of finding your way back to a brightly coloured shelter.
I guess that for less extreme camping, the colour of the tent has more to do with prevailing fashions?
Pink, green & yellow ... designer must have been on drugs!!
.. but it's a great little tent.
our first tent was brown and orange, then we went to a blue one royal sassari), then onto a green one (outwell vermont) and now we have gone onto the new mocha one (outwell Arkansas) which we like and so do the kids
i would have said green untill i got my georgia and its so light and airy i just love it but its mine if i see any other blue outwells i turn my nose up ha ha weird is it not
I prefer Blue and surprise surprise our tent is Blue.
When we were looking around before we purchased the tent, one of the salesmen tried to tell me that green was better as it would be cooler during the summer, somewhat missing the point that i didn't like the colour!
On the plus side have not found our tent to be hot in the height of summer, although his comment did get me wondering if it was true!
------------- A polite engineer in an civil world.
Colour, in my experience is irrelevant. All studies are rendered meaningless when husband and wife pitch a tent together. Be it green, blue, beige, brown, bright orange etc. we are all destined to argue about everything!
Unfortunately,farmers think like this.They spot a green tent,and think: Grass and Trees = OK,one night and a morning! If they spot a yellow,blue,red etc tent,they think: Off my land with that eyesore monstrosity!
------------- Boris Karloff: '' now will you give me my chalk!? ''
My Tents:
Eureka K2 XT
Terra Nova Solar 2
Outwell Jersey S Pop Up Tent
Hennessy Hammock Explorer Deluxe.
Quote: Originally posted by blacklagoon on 06/3/2009
Unfortunately,farmers think like this.They spot a green tent,and think: Grass and Trees = OK,one night and a morning! If they spot a yellow,blue,red etc tent,they think: Off my land with that eyesore monstrosity!
You aren't a farmer by any chance, blacklagoon???!!!
no,but my family are farmers in snowdonia.I genuinely do not know their philosophy on tents and if they deem them suitable to be on their fields or not etc,but a lot of modern farmers don't know enough about farming,the land etc to keep them occupied,so go looking out for trifles,like tents that stand out.I have personally been * visited * by a genuine working farmer when out in fields,and all they do is ask what i'm doing,and ask nicely if i will not leave a mess.I have heard a lot of new farmers,are from the cities,and truly believe a field should look as they see them in countryside magazines,with a philosophy of banning and driving off campers in tents,is good for the environment and eco-system of their fields and farmland.
------------- Boris Karloff: '' now will you give me my chalk!? ''
My Tents:
Eureka K2 XT
Terra Nova Solar 2
Outwell Jersey S Pop Up Tent
Hennessy Hammock Explorer Deluxe.
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Topic: Green tent or blue tent?????
