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Greetings all... First post.
Background: Mid 40's, been camping since my childhood, my wife and I had tent camped for years. We had a great pop up for 3 years, but sold it last year so that we could buy a pontoon boat (one toy at a time). So it's back to tents for me.
My 2 sons are now boy/cub scouts, and I sometimes go camping with them when they car camp. I'm way too large (6'7" 300lbs) to fit in a backpack tent, so I bring a family dome tent and camp that way.
Well, on my last camping trip last year, I noticed that my 10+ year old dome tent had some tears, and decided it was time for a new one. I went to a local sporting goods auction, where they sell what is generally customer returned goods, and I was able to buy a large (6 person?) but oddly shaped tent. I'll get a picture of it perhaps tomorrow when I seam seal it. The tent has 3 poles, an arch/dome in front, and two that run from the front corners to the rear middle, giving some kind of odd pentagon shape to the tent.
The tent is called a Magellan Kings Canyon. I found that Magellan is the store brand for Academy Sports (they don't have any of these in North Carolina, where I live, so I can't question the store directly), but I can't find anything online at all about this tent. I can see some links to a "kings canyon II" from them, which is a 2 man backpacking tent. This tent is much bigger, and completely differently shaped.
My first question is whether anyone has ever heard of this type of tent, and if so, if they can share any type of details, especially manual and/or reviews. If anyone has better luck finding info about this on the net, please let me know that as well.
Thanks for the help
th
Background: Mid 40's, been camping since my childhood, my wife and I had tent camped for years. We had a great pop up for 3 years, but sold it last year so that we could buy a pontoon boat (one toy at a time). So it's back to tents for me.
My 2 sons are now boy/cub scouts, and I sometimes go camping with them when they car camp. I'm way too large (6'7" 300lbs) to fit in a backpack tent, so I bring a family dome tent and camp that way.
Well, on my last camping trip last year, I noticed that my 10+ year old dome tent had some tears, and decided it was time for a new one. I went to a local sporting goods auction, where they sell what is generally customer returned goods, and I was able to buy a large (6 person?) but oddly shaped tent. I'll get a picture of it perhaps tomorrow when I seam seal it. The tent has 3 poles, an arch/dome in front, and two that run from the front corners to the rear middle, giving some kind of odd pentagon shape to the tent.
The tent is called a Magellan Kings Canyon. I found that Magellan is the store brand for Academy Sports (they don't have any of these in North Carolina, where I live, so I can't question the store directly), but I can't find anything online at all about this tent. I can see some links to a "kings canyon II" from them, which is a 2 man backpacking tent. This tent is much bigger, and completely differently shaped.
My first question is whether anyone has ever heard of this type of tent, and if so, if they can share any type of details, especially manual and/or reviews. If anyone has better luck finding info about this on the net, please let me know that as well.
Thanks for the help
th
A canvas campateer
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