Tube Tent! Remember these?

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Ever sleep in a tube tent?

Excuse the view but it's the only picture I have showing my backpacking group sleeping in tube tents which we sometimes did in good weather. We used clothespins to keep them from sliding around on the lines we used to run them on. Probably taken around 1966.

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Liba Kopeckova

How could I remember?

Voted 10/10

I was not born yet... Thanks, for sharing these photos.

Posted May 13, 2011 9:04 am


	silversummit	Re: How could I remember?
	Hasn't voted	Oh you youngsters! Who knows what fad is here right now and will disappear tomorrow? And thanks for looking at my antiques! Kathy
		Posted May 13, 2011 12:13 pm

EricChu

Gosh...

Voted 10/10

...I was only two years old back then...I don't remember if it was a tube tent my cousin and I used when we were both about twelve years of age or so, but I remember how thrilling it was for both of us kids putting up that tent in the forest above my aunt's and uncle's vacation home in the Swiss Alps and spending the night there...;-)

Posted May 20, 2011 7:16 pm


	silversummit	Re: Gosh...
	Hasn't voted	Glad it brings back some happy memories Eric!
		Posted May 20, 2011 7:48 pm

lcarreau

Aaaaa ...

Voted 10/10

In 1966, I was 9 years young.

I remember seeing "The Adults" putting these things up and having lots of fun in them.

Us kids were forced to sleep beneath the
stars, especially on the warmer evenings.

I liked the stars. I often wished I could
be amongst them, opposed to having to spend
the evening with a bunch of rowdy and snoring
ADULTS.

Posted May 20, 2011 9:55 pm

chugach mtn boy

I do remember those

Hasn't voted

Colin Fletcher said they were just fine! Of course, he lived in California ... I don't think he'd have recommended my idea of mixing a tube tent, down sleeping bag, and eastern T-storms ...

Posted Jul 10, 2011 4:41 pm


	silversummit	Re: I do remember those
	Hasn't voted	How true! We quickly abandoned them as well....
		Posted Jul 10, 2011 9:24 pm

myrone

Yes, I remember

Voted 10/10

Hot, short, but all we had at the time. We stayed dry. Man you take me back to times I hiked/hitchhiked around New England and met some terrific people. Fun stuff.
Thank you, Kathy

Posted Jul 31, 2011 10:42 pm