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Subject Topic: Why you should always use a footprint...
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Persongreenback
15/8/2014 at 9:39am
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Took up our tent yesterday to find two big holes in the tarp underneath our tent. After a closer inspection we found the shredded tarp had been turned into a vole's nest! To think that could have been our tent!


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bad luck, but easily repaired.

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atko


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Tenner from eBay. Cheap to replace!


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This year is the very first time I have used a footprint and that was because I am finding more and more pitches on campsites devoid of grass as camping becomes more popular and pitches are not being rested and maintained properly.

The only thing that ever damaged my SIG was thorns from the surrounding blackthorn hedge which had been freshly cut prior to my arrival at a campsite. A silly hedge with which to surround a pitch but perhaps it was there before the pitch was. Fortunately my car tyres survived.

Some years ago when I had a tent with a loose groundsheet one of the elastic tension straps that run from one side of the flysheet to the other beneath the groundsheet had been badly frayed by some small animal. I was able to repair that quite easily.


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Id allways use a tarp under my tent, saves the bottom from getting dirty aswell as protecting it


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Yep as we only go camping in the South East of France during July for our fortnight campings, where pitches can be baked hard, and have various bits of debris strewned about them.

We first put down a Tarp 5m x 4m then on top of that goes a 1mm thick 5m x 4m Butyl Rubber Pond Liner.

For the last 5 years or so, this has ensured that our ZiG has remained unscathed.


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16/8/2014 at 12:47am
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Our footprint has "hole de vole" now, and the furry fiend also managed to find its way into the tent via the gap between the sewn-in and non-sewn-in areas of the tent. They are much slower than mice though, so relatively easy to catch in a saucepan.

As atko says, it's easy to fix

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Loitering with tin tent



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