>>85678>about to go camping (2009)>can't find tent>learn ex-friend stole it the day before and left for parts unknown>quickly go shopping for tents>no one has tents except 1 returned tent at Walmart on discount, so I bought it for $50 instead of $175.>no time to set it up and check it>go camping for a week...>set up tent at campgrounds and everything is great>full summer sun hits the tent, weakens the graphite poles at the peak of the tent *snap*>repair *snap*>repair *snap*>repair *snap*>6 giant gobs of duct tape later it is fixed>hook up with a chick and stay in her tent during a rain storm>go back to my tent in the morning and it is half full of water because the poles broke yet again. I'm talking a 100+ gallon pool of water>tent is full of frogs and salamanders WTF>end up sleeping in the smaller cargo tent the rest of the morningI finally got it "fixed" enough to give me room inside. The thing was some frog got lost in the equipment and began to stink and I couldn't find it until I got home so it stank up the car too. The tent poles were all dry-rotted looking and brittle. It was weird. I had a good time though.
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