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One Year Anniversary for the Orange Dome

I bought my orange tent 1 year ago today!

    I just bought the Ozark Trail 7X9 dome tent. I like it from what I have seen, but I still have one question. Does it hold up well in the rain? I hope so. I probably will find out tonight, there is a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms in my area, and I look at this as a perfect chance to see how Ozark Trail does in the rain.                                                                      

                                                                                                                         

Today I got a Coleman camping cot. I soon found out that it barely fit in my Coleman Tent. At this point I was tired of the Coleman tent, not because I was bored of it, because I have been having some pretty bad luck with the Coleman Sun dome lately. It hasn't kept bugs out, I have found several holes in the stitching connecting the wall material to the floor, and my cot will not fit in it. But I have had my eye on this for a while:

It's a 9X7 Ozark Trail tent. It has more windows, and it is not green. I've never liked that green of the Coleman Sun Dome. Walmart customers seem to have pretty good things to say about it, and 600 people on Facebook like it. It's only $39 at the local Walmart. I am really thinking about buying it.

Today is June 29 2012. That makes 1 year ago today that I threw my Red Embark tent and bought the strangely small Ozark Trail tent. Throwing the red embark away was a huge mistake! I have never had a tent as good as it. I am sorry I threw you away last year, i still miss you.

    Today I was looking on line to see if there was any Red embark tents like the one in the picture above. I couldn't find anything except this.

.From what I can see it is identical to my old embark. I did some reading and found out that it is pretty much the same, only blue. The door is the same, the back window, the way the rain fly is connected, the size, even the poles are the same.The reason I mentioned the poles is because the pole running on the sides is grey instead of black. I also found out that it is the Greatland's 7X9 2-3 person backpacking tent.

I have been doing some thinking about the Orange Embark 4 person tent. Last summer I hated it, I wanted no part of it. Just seeing it made me sick. Well that was almost one year ago and now I realized that the tent's   one and only problem is that it water squeezes through the zipper on the door when it rains out. If you read my last post, your probably thinking, "Oh Yeah, mister tent expert, what about the broken pole." Well I fit all the poles back together and when the tents set up, there under pressure so the won't fall apart on you when you are sleeping. Over the past month, I have come to really like the Orange Embark. It Stinks when it rains because right under the gets wet but when it's nice out, you would have no way of knowing that it leaks through a small part of uncovered zipper. No it will never be as good as my red embark but its good for what its is.