Rolling Up a Tent After Camping: Free Online Camping Guide

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Brian on behalf of expertvillage.com. Once you have shaken all the dirt out of the tent and ensured that it’s moisture free, you are going to want to continue to break the tent down. First of all, ensure that the door is closed as it’ll bundle up inside the packaging as you close the tent up and fold it down. It will make it difficult to put away. Once the tent is sealed, untie the poles from the top, which held up the middle of your dome, and then loosen it from the sockets at each corner. Once that’s done, you want to continue pushing the rods all the way through. Remember how the rods went together, they have gotten an elastic band to maintain tension and hold each individual section in the socket. If you try pulling on them, they simply come apart inside the tent and you have a larger mess on your hands. Again, simply fold up the stakes, once you’ve removed them from the tent. It’s a good idea to do this right afterwards to avoid potential breakage should you step on one. Fold each corner in towards the middle at all four sides. Once that’s done, take the two halves together and fold them across. Then you simply roll it up to put it back in the package in a similar manner that you rolled up the sleeping bag, making sure that you squeeze the air out of it as you go along. Remember the more tightly and accurately you fold the tent the easier will be to roll up and put away. The simplest way to stow away the rain fly is to simply roll it in with the main body of the tent as I’m doing here. Make sure all the cords that attached it are on the interior of the roll. As with the sleeping bag, simply roll, push the excess air out as you roll it down, maintaining as tight a roll as you can. "