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Subject Topic: Groundsheet advice.
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08/7/2012 at 7:30pm
 Location: Aberdeenshire
 Outfit: Hastaad XL
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Me again, with another daft question.
As I've said before, we're new to all this and looking forward to our first trip.
We've practiced with our tent twice now - the first time wasn't brilliant but the second time it was much better. We got the tent through someone at work but there's no instructions!
There isn't a SIG but a separate one. My question is, should we put up the tent and then the groundsheet ? Or, could we put the groundsheet down and then the tent up round it? If we did it the latter way then we'd be able to have the poles in exactly the right place. Also, there are hoops on the groundsheet so we'd be able to hook it onto the poles and keep it secure. .
Is that ok or will it cause a problem ?
Thanks.


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08/7/2012 at 8:11pm
 Location: midlands
 Outfit: Royal Toulous 9 Vango Icarus 6 5m bell
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I'm definitely not an expert, but I used to put the groundsheet down first on my non-sig tent. I found it easier then to get the rest of the tent the right shape. Never pitched it in the rain though, that would make a difference I think


08/7/2012 at 10:49pm
 Location: Aberdeenshire
 Outfit: Hastaad XL
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Thanks for that.  Hopefully it won't be raining when we go (obviously not a given in the current climate).

I think we'll have another practice in the garden though and try it that way - see how we get on.



09/7/2012 at 2:05am
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Do you know what make/model tent it is? I've had some tents that pitch the inner groundsheet first then the fly sheet (I believe that's the terminology!) over the top of that.


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09/7/2012 at 9:11am
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It's a Harstaad. It's an 8 man tent, has a living area (which is where the groundsheet is for). There are 4 bedroom pods each with SIGs.



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