Worst Tent Contest - Win Marmot Twilight | |
marks
 | Posted: August 25th, 2008 Edited: September 2nd, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
CONTEST COMPLETE
The winner is: bearson. Congratulations! Bearson we PMed the information about how to claim your tent.
Altrec.com is giving away a Marmot Twilight ($240, 2 person, 3 season tent) this week to the person who can upload the "ugliest" tent picture by September 1st, 2008.
Here's the rules: your picture has to have a tent in it. (Yep that's it). So this could be an awful picture of your buddy stumbling out of his tent in the morning, a tent that got destroyed in some epic storm or your tent after a bear was finished with it.
How to win:
1.Click add reply top right.
2.Create an account if you don't have one (free of course)
3.Upload Image (jpeg, gif or png smaller than 1.5mb)
4.Add Post
After that wait until Sept. 2nd when Altrec will pick the best of the ugliest. While you are waiting check out Altrec.com's hot summer deals.
OK I lied about only one rule: There's one more rule. PG-13 is required or your disqualified (and we'll delete your picture).
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utahultra
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Coming in at only 5lbs! It's an ultralight!
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flemdawg1
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It's not only ugly, its heavy, and it leaks like a colander (hence the ugly gray tarp fly).
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Ruze23
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the best rainfly / spaceship / protection from aliens - tent in the whole world!
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marks
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You gotta pay extra for that anti-alien technology but it's worth it!
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majorbabe
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So. After climbing 14,421' Mount Massive in Colorado, and backpacking out late that evening, we hastily set up camp at a lower elevation and collapsed into a fitful sleep. It rained a lot that night, and the next morning, we got up sore and cold, and made a BIG production of quickly packing up and getting ready to drive to our next destination. We were VERY careful not to forget our wet rainfly which we had decided to not pack in with the tent, so at least the tent would stay dry. 4 hours later, we arrived at our next stop - the Black Canyon of the Gunnison - only to find that, yes, we did bring the rainfly, but *forgot the tent in its bag leaning up against a tree in our last campsite!!!* Well, one can only do what one can do - and it was time for improvisation ~
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clewttu
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Defeats the whole idea of owning a tent. Fail.
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crockett
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tent broke...so used it to make a beer cooler in the lake!
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geoffclimb
| Posted: August 26th, 2008 Edited: August 26th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
that was a cold night with a tarp as the rain fly
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avconsta
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My roommate in one of his most glorious moments... after a long night. make sure you take a closer look.
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NeeDlzdos
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Some drunk guy tackled my tent and broke a pole. He looks suspiscously familiar to the guy I see every morning while brushing my teeth. That guy is always causing problems.
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bobbymckinney
 | Posted: August 27th, 2008 Edited: August 27th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
When absent a tent, make one. Cardboard might keep some of the rain off.
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marks
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bobbymckinney said:
When absent a tent, make one. Cardboard might keep some of the rain off. |
What's this actually designed for Bobby? A little bit of wind and your gonna have fun with that one.
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Troy
 | Posted: August 27th, 2008 Edited: August 27th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
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Ruze23 said:
the best rainfly / spaceship / protection from aliens - tent in the whole world! |
You know, I keep seeing that tent and thinking how awesome mylar would be in the summer to keep the tent cool... but its definitely pretty ghetto.
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agrck4
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High winds at horshoe canyon ranch destroyed my already p.o.s. tent. but it probably was one of the best nights of sleep ever.
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Gaarwl
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This is/was a Serria Desgins tent...that should be about 4.5ft tall...here it is only about 2.5ft tall...This is after and still during a wind storm that lasted 9 hours with winds over 70mph. Needless to say 3 ripped guy points, two mangled poles, and a lot of sand...It was a long night during a 2 month road trip.
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clewttu
| Posted: August 27th, 2008 Edited: August 27th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
fun times
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marks
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Lol; I'd like to see a picture of that being used as a tent.
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Troy
| Posted: August 27th, 2008 Edited: August 27th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
I think tent caterpillars are slightly stretching the intended definition of "tent"... lol
But I agree, they aren't much fun when they start popping up.
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malicestar
| Posted: August 27th, 2008 Edited: August 27th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
Far too drunk to realize that he'd used the Fly poles for the tent shell, Ben slept in the tent like this using the cooler to keep the roof off his head. The rain was probably the sweetest part.
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malicestar
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The tents were all full, so Russ slept in the box. You sleep in a box, you wake up with "balls" on your forehead.
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malicestar
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The rules don't say anything about multiple entries, and they also say you can use images you 'found'. Accordingly, I'm submitting these beauts!
Glad I'm not them!
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powerpuffgirl
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This is not an ugly tent. In fact, it's a beautiful tent that I won in the last Free Tent Contest.
Just an incentive for the rest of you...
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bobbymckinney
| Posted: August 27th, 2008 Edited: August 28th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
It was an event in austin to supposedly simulate refugee camp experience in uganda. Everyone built shelters out of cardboard.
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Idorko
| Posted: August 28th, 2008 Edited: August 28th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
"what happened to the tent!?!?!"
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Troy
| Posted: August 28th, 2008 Edited: August 28th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
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powerpuffgirl said:
This is not an ugly tent. In fact, it's a beautiful tent that I won in the last Free Tent Contest.
Just an incentive for the rest of you... |
I'm glad to see you're putting it to good use.
I expect to see a review by you up soon of your free tent! lol
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dfarin
| Posted: August 28th, 2008 Edited: August 28th, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
Here are Jasper and Liam in their garbage bag tent. Fine piece of handy work if you asked Jasper, although he's sure it's the ugliest tent you'll see. Solar collection is it's strongest point after budget. Of course, even if he doesn't win that lovely Marmot tent, he now knows how to make do with a couple of sheets of plastic. Seems like a winner in any case...
David Farin
Appleton, WI 54915
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somnmblist2012
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Gallatin River, Montana
Summer '08
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dogonfr
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Cardboard seems to be excellent tent material.
PG13 whats that?? ;)
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atvalleroy
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A throw-together camp trip in a field during a 3day climb outing. I forgot that the tent itself was hanging on my balcony to dry from the last trip... this left me with the poles, a bunch of plastic bags from my pack (finally a good use for all of them), my hammock, and a sheet. The shelter looked (as you can see) pretty bad in the morning, but I thought it was great when I set it up (in the dark). It kept the dew light drizzle off, but the wind was brisk. I would have been better off borrowing one of your guys' cardboard deals.
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atvalleroy
| Posted: September 1st, 2008 Edited: September 1st, 2008 | Quote, Reply |
Sometimes you just have to use what God gave you.
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greens
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(type here)
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bearson
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"Which tent is not like the others?"
My son recently went camping with his friends from his fraternity from OSU around his 21st birthday. He said to me, "Mom, the only present I want from you and dad is a new tent". I mentioned this birthday gift suggestion to my husband before our son went camping and his response was, "There's nothing wrong with the tent he has now, it is a perfectly good tent". Now, what I should mention is that my husband hangs on to everything for decades, duct tape anything up and it will last forever! About a week later my son went camping and upon his return showed me a few of his camping photo's. Of course, I laughed out loud for obvious reason's. The poor kid's tent looks like something from the 1920s! Then I thought to myself, maybe if my husband see's how old and out dated this tent is he will agree to buying our son a new tent. So I showed my husband the photo and said to him, "Now honey, what is wrong with this picture?" My husband's reply, "Why did they ever camp at a logged out area?" Anyway...as you can see my son really needs a new tent. Thank you for considering him.
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bearson
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See above description...guess which tent is my sons?
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flemdawg1
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Man, we're seeing alot of busted up Ozark Trail tents, THANKS WALMART!
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Troy
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My rule of thumb when it comes to buying tents at wallmart... don't.
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marks
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CONTEST COMPLETE
The winner is: bearson. Bearson you have been PMed.
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