Expert Camping Gear Reviews & Guides
There’s a particular kind of misery reserved for fumbling around a dark tent at midnight. You need the loo. Your torch has rolled under the sleeping bag. Your phone battery is at 4%. Outside, it’s raining — because of course it is, this is Britain in August. A decent best tent light doesn’t just solve … Read more
There’s a particular British camping moment every tent camper knows. You’ve had a brilliant day — a scramble up Helvellyn, a soggy wander round a Somerset farm campsite — and you arrive back at the tent porch absolutely caked in mud. The wellies come off. But where do they go? If you haven’t planned for … Read more
You’ve done it again. You’re half-asleep, it’s quarter past midnight, rain is tapping against the flysheet like a bored child, and somewhere in the dark abyss of your tent floor lies your head torch. It’s under the spare socks, or possibly the map, or — most likely — nowhere useful at all. British camping is … Read more
Picture this: it’s half past midnight somewhere in the Lake District. You’re half-asleep, it’s drizzling (obviously), and you are absolutely certain your head torch is somewhere in this tent. But where, exactly? Buried under a fleece? Shoved in your boot? Still in the car? You spend four minutes patting around in the dark before giving … Read more
Anyone who has spent a long weekend squeezed into a tent with their family — torches rolling under sleeping bags, snacks merging suspiciously with socks, sunscreen mysteriously ending up face-down on the groundsheet — will understand the quiet desperation behind the search for a fabric storage shelf tent. It’s not glamour you’re after. It’s survival. … Read more
Picture this: it’s half eleven at night, somewhere in the Peak District, and you’re blindly rummaging through a pile of boots, waterproofs, and snack wrappers, desperately hunting for your head torch. Sound familiar? It shouldn’t have to. A mesh gear loft for tent is one of those deceptively simple camping accessories that transforms your sleeping … Read more
Every tent reaches the same low point around 11pm. You’re lying there, torch dead, glasses somewhere underfoot, phone charger tangled in someone else’s sock, and the only flat surface left is occupied by a half-eaten packet of biscuits. A tent gear loft solves this with almost embarrassing simplicity: a mesh shelf that hangs from your … Read more
Picture this. It’s late May. The sun has finally shown up for a whole three consecutive days, and you’re ready to celebrate by dragging the tent out of the garage. You unzip the bag — and something genuinely unpleasant hits you in the face. That musty, faintly ammonia-tinged smell. The kind that, if you’re unlucky, … Read more
There’s a particular kind of suffering that every British camper knows intimately. You’ve just arrived at Glastonbury, or a muddy field near the Peak District, or some wind-battered coastal campsite in Pembrokeshire — and there you are, hunched over like a Victorian chimney sweep, dragging a 12 kg family tent across 400 metres of rutted … Read more
There’s a moment every backpacker knows all too well. You’ve had a brilliant weekend in the Lakes, the sun even made a brief appearance on Sunday morning, and now you’re standing in a muddy car park trying to stuff your tent back into its original bag. The original bag that, somehow, was clearly packed by … Read more