Well I am back from my trip. Everything was awesome except thursday night a huge storm came through.
Here is my storm story:
I had returned from watching Sound Tribe Sector 9 play a fairly good show and there was talk in the air about a storm heading our way. When I got back to the campgrounds I packed everything into the tent to protect it from the incoming rain and went to sleep.
4:30 AM I woke up after about an hour of sleep... it was raining so hard and the wind was so strong I could see the tent bowing above me. Then one of the corners of the tent started to lift... and it eventually pulled the stake out of the ground. At this point I extend both arms and legs out to hold down all 4 corners of the tent. It was working pretty well until some wind getting under the corner of the rainfly that wasnt staked down anymore and pulled it loose, exposing me to massive amounts of cold rain and soaking all of my gear and clothes. So I jumped up to get out of the tent and reattach the corner of the rainfly and immediately one of the aluminum poles folded and the tent collapsed on me sending me to the ground. After several seconds of disorientation I found the zipper and got the hell out of there. I spent the night in my car completely soaked, but managed to fold my tent up into the tarp and park 1 wheel of my car on the very edge of the tent to keep it from blowing away.
THe next morning I assesed the situation... all clothes sompletely soaked, 1 tentpole destroyed and 1 bent pretty bad. All food and beer survived (thank you cooler), all kind bud survived, thank you air tight jar. I spent part of that morning walking around among 50,000 people in my boxer shorts looking, unsuccessfully, for someone with duct tape. I ended up dissassembling of of the rainfly poles and using it as a 3 piece splint to fix the snapped section of tent pole, the splint was firmly attached via a bike tube that I cut into strips. I used the elastic cord from the dissasembled rain fly pole to tie between 2 trees and use as a clothesline so I could dry out some clothes.
The rest of the festival was sweet BTW, but I figured you guys would be most interested in the disaster. BTW, the guys next to me... their tent was fine and it cost them $30 at K-Mart :angry:
Here is my storm story:
I had returned from watching Sound Tribe Sector 9 play a fairly good show and there was talk in the air about a storm heading our way. When I got back to the campgrounds I packed everything into the tent to protect it from the incoming rain and went to sleep.
4:30 AM I woke up after about an hour of sleep... it was raining so hard and the wind was so strong I could see the tent bowing above me. Then one of the corners of the tent started to lift... and it eventually pulled the stake out of the ground. At this point I extend both arms and legs out to hold down all 4 corners of the tent. It was working pretty well until some wind getting under the corner of the rainfly that wasnt staked down anymore and pulled it loose, exposing me to massive amounts of cold rain and soaking all of my gear and clothes. So I jumped up to get out of the tent and reattach the corner of the rainfly and immediately one of the aluminum poles folded and the tent collapsed on me sending me to the ground. After several seconds of disorientation I found the zipper and got the hell out of there. I spent the night in my car completely soaked, but managed to fold my tent up into the tarp and park 1 wheel of my car on the very edge of the tent to keep it from blowing away.
THe next morning I assesed the situation... all clothes sompletely soaked, 1 tentpole destroyed and 1 bent pretty bad. All food and beer survived (thank you cooler), all kind bud survived, thank you air tight jar. I spent part of that morning walking around among 50,000 people in my boxer shorts looking, unsuccessfully, for someone with duct tape. I ended up dissassembling of of the rainfly poles and using it as a 3 piece splint to fix the snapped section of tent pole, the splint was firmly attached via a bike tube that I cut into strips. I used the elastic cord from the dissasembled rain fly pole to tie between 2 trees and use as a clothesline so I could dry out some clothes.
The rest of the festival was sweet BTW, but I figured you guys would be most interested in the disaster. BTW, the guys next to me... their tent was fine and it cost them $30 at K-Mart :angry:
