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Post by hibouxdufromage on Feb 17, 2008 23:03:09 GMT -5
On 21-22 June every year, the summer solstice happens, which is the longest day of the year, renfair people and hippies have parties, blah blah blah. What I'm getting at here is that the Sun's ecliptic (the path that the sun appears to travel in the sky) is at its northernmost point of the year. It rises at 23.44 deg ENE and swings around south to its apex and sets at 23.44 deg WNW. SO.... what this has to do with keeping your tent cooler, is that when you get to bonnaroo, get your compass out of your pocket, find due East, and turn 23 degrees to the north. That is exactly where the Sun will be rising. Align your shade makers and your tent sides this way, and do the same thing to find where the Sun sets. Put shade makers there. Now you have a campsite that has continuous shade all day long without having to untie and retie stuff. SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOHOOOOOO!
Keeping the tent cool is pretty simple. Just keep it out of the sun and leave off the rainfly.
A lot of people (myself included) swear by easy-up style "shade canopies". These can be had, in various forms, for $30-$100 and usually cover a 10 sq ft -ish area. Put your tent directly in the middle of this shade canopy, but DO NOT ATTACH THE RAIN FLY.
Instead, bring some bed sheets, curtains, or lightweight tapestries. Hang them from the sides of your canopy (esp. the east, north, and west sides). You want something that will break up the sunlight (and, thus, breakup the heat) without stopping the breeze that may or may not blow through your campsite.
Why leave off the fly? It'll basically turn your tent into a sauna. It's designed to not let rain in, but it's so good at that task that it manages to trap heat and energy underneath it ... and directly on top of you. It's like kicking the blanket off of your legs in the middle of the night because it's too hot. That one detail makes a world of difference.
A lot of people are tossing around the idea of using one of those "solar" blankets or tarps hanging off the side of their canopy to reflect the heat away from their site. All I can as -- esp. if you're my neighbor -- is that you PLEASE do not do this. Sure, you'll bounce energy away from your tent, but you'll be bouncing it straight into another person's tent.
Karma, man. Don't forget about the karma!
Also, those things BLOCK wind. If there's a breeze, you want it blowing through your area. Those things block it mercilessly.
Another idea, instead, is to put the solar blanket on TOP of your shade canopy or tarp, reflecting OVERHEAD heat back INTO THE SKY. This will help most during the heat of the day as the sun is in the highest parts of the sky.
FWIW - the walls of my tent (a 3-man Coleman tent) are bug mesh almost all the way to the ground, so leaving my rain fly off is almost like not sleeping in a tent at all, except that the ground underneath me is dry (if it rains) and it'll keep out the minor bugs (ants and basic spiders, if anything) out of your tent.
Also, a lot of people forego the tent all together and sleep instead on free-standing hammocks or cots underneath a tarp or canopy. This is a great idea, but having a tent lets you throw the fly on if you want to for a little bit of privacy while you get dressed in the mornings.
Also, do these EZ-UPs really stop the sun from coming in, or just parcially? I plan on buying something like the link above, but don't want to waste a lot of money if it's not gonna help a lot.
I was randomly checking out the new for 2008 section on Cabelas and they had a portable battery powered air conditioner www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0053085518260a.shtml for 80 bucks i think i may just try it. Would be cool to kick that on in the morning and sleep once the sun started to come up.
this is like the ac in the smokers lounge and the ones there kept it nice and cool....
This word also has a underground meaning once you break it down. Let’s take “Bonn” for example and it actually turns into the word “Bone”. We all know gays use this word to describe the action of when they are fecal fisting their Cuban cabana boy at their sex bath house parties. Now let’s look at Roo, “Roo” is short for “Kangaroo”.So put the full true message together and you get“Bone a Kangaroo
Post by electraonyx on Feb 18, 2008 21:15:53 GMT -5
On the first page of this thread someone mentioned some sleep aids....I just wanted to remind people that good old Benadryl is a fantastic sleep aid that is much milder than the prescription stuff. Benadryl is the sleepy part of Tylenol PM, Unisom etc. I'm nurse and I work night shifts and it helps me sleep during the day. That being said I remember being very cold during the night last year, but I couldn't stay up past midnight to save myself.
Post by rideincircles on Feb 19, 2008 3:23:38 GMT -5
I am thinking about getting a carport canopy and some tarps this year, its about twice as big as the ebay canopy above at the same price. Also, everyone is tallking about sleeping on cots or the ground. Air mattresses are my best friend, so comfortable almost more than my bed at home. Just avoid getting the ones with the built in motor, they can leak easily.
Post by anicwilliams1580 on Feb 19, 2008 11:44:20 GMT -5
I was scorching at like 7:30 last year but we were totally unprepared, all we had was a tent but our neighbors shared their shade with us. It would have been unbearable otherwise. We also caught some zzzz's under a big tree in Centeroo with like 20 random people.
Post by kenglandroo on Feb 19, 2008 15:45:51 GMT -5
we had an overhead canopy and tied some blankets on the side where the sun was coming up. we put a tarp under it and it turned in to a perfect chill spot in the mornings. i slept on my sleeping bag under that thing the whole time. the tent wasn't used, i would only use it if there was rain.
Post by blankaflip on Feb 21, 2008 14:22:58 GMT -5
kenglandroo said:
we had an overhead canopy and tied some blankets on the side where the sun was coming up. we put a tarp under it and it turned in to a perfect chill spot in the mornings. i slept on my sleeping bag under that thing the whole time. the tent wasn't used, i would only use it if there was rain.
Wow, this actually sounds like a great idea! Almost makes me tempted to not bring the tent... But, god forbid... If I were to not bring it, Bonnaroo 08 would be the Great Monsoon Year. Plus, did you happen to run into spider problems with your canopy set up? I'm HUGELY arachnophobic, and while I won't let it deter my whole trip, I'd like to prevent it as much as possible.
Wow, this actually sounds like a great idea! Almost makes me tempted to not bring the tent... [...] I'm HUGELY arachnophobic, and while I won't let it deter my whole trip, I'd like to prevent it as much as possible.
Bring the tent. Set it up, but leave off the rainfly and open all the windows.
Post by dirtytreefrogman on Feb 21, 2008 15:39:44 GMT -5
I think I'm going to bring a chillow and station four battery operated fans around my sleeping self and once the sun hits, turn them all on full blast. Hopefully this will help somewhat.
Post by Steel_City_X on Feb 21, 2008 20:41:44 GMT -5
I've found tarp that have a silver side. Works great to keep the sun off the tent if kept a few inches off the tent. The down side is then having to open things up to catch any breeze later once the baking sun is not an issue.
There's no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard. No song that I could sing. But I can try for your heart Our dreams, and they are made out of real things Like a, shoebox of photographs With sepiatone loving Love is the answer
A little feeling in my gut that I get of late when I think about these cats running the world with hate
There's no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard. No song that I could sing. But I can try for your heart Our dreams, and they are made out of real things Like a, shoebox of photographs With sepiatone loving Love is the answer
A little feeling in my gut that I get of late when I think about these cats running the world with hate
Post by freedomofmusic on Mar 12, 2008 22:13:56 GMT -5
It would have to be attached pretty securely or it could end up blowing all over Bonnaroo. White tarps works very well at reflecting the heat also and keep out sideways rain. Dry and Shade.
This website has cheap tarps in many colors and sizes.
Post by spookymonster on Mar 13, 2008 7:36:04 GMT -5
^^ I'll second those space blankets. With a little duct tape, they'll stick easily to your rain fly, or even the inside of your tent. They'll keep it cooler and darker. They're also durable enough to fold up and reuse several times.
I bought a box of 10 off of ebay for about $20. I keep a few of them in my emergency roadside kits.
Post by live2lovemusic on Mar 13, 2008 16:15:35 GMT -5
spookymonster said:
With a little duct tape, they'll stick easily to your rain fly, or even the inside of your tent. They'll keep it cooler and darker. They're also durable enough to fold up and reuse several times.
I bought a box of 10 off of ebay for about $20. I keep a few of them in my emergency roadside kits.
wait. why would i want to keep them in my tent?? im so confused haha sorry!
Its a steep price, but with 8 people going in on it, Id say it was worth it, but if it works.
Any opinions??? Im a newbie at this!
My very first job was working in the "tape" industry... yeah, weird, I know, but it paid the bills. The alum foil tape works well for insulation on electronics, but I dont know about a tent. The adhesive will either be super strong or not sticky enough; so you'll either have it stuck to your tent permanently after 4 days in the sun or it might not even stick, depending on what your tent is made of. Few adhesives are created to stand direct heat and sunlight. And if you find one that can, it's going to be more expensive than it's worth.
In summary, I agree with Troo, it will be cheaper to get the emergency blankets.
Question about those blankets. So I know there use is to keep your body heat close to you in an emergency. So if you put them over your tent, won't they hold heat in instead of blocking it out?
Post by SouthGA_Festival Machine on Mar 20, 2008 16:03:22 GMT -5
They work by reflecting heat, in the form of infrared radiation. When wrapped around a human body, they reflect body heat back at said body. When placed between you and the sun, they reflect solar radiation away from you (they also reflect your body heat back towards you, but if not placed too close to your body, this heat is diffused and dissipated by air flow). *Ms. Scientist*
