concretejungle
Adventurer
I've been extremely pleased with my James Baroud tent. I've slept in it a lot and have always stayed dry and comfortable.
Last weekend i experienced my first failure of my tent and it is directly related to the bug screens. I was camped out on the outer banks of NC over the labor day weekend in a beautiful setting. Started off with some bad weather, wind, rain, more rain... the RTT excelled.
Then, the weather cleared and it got dead calm out there. No breeze at all. When that happens on many of the outer banks islands, the bugs come out. Well, they did and they came out in mass. If it wasn't the green-head flies biting the crap out of you, it was the regular flies. If not them, the mosquitos were drawing blood like crazy. And then the "no-see-um's" came out. Some people call them sand fleas. Regardless of what you call them, they bite you relentlessly. If the wind is blowing, they are not an issue.
As night time came and it was time to climb up into the tent i came to a relization that the bug screens in the JB are too large! Tiny mosquitos and masses of biting no-see-ums tore me up all night long. It was probably the worst night of sleep i've had in the tent. My fiancé' said this is too much and i'm never coming out here again. I was miserable as well.
So, that's a HUGE problem JB! Please update the bug screens to smaller ones that keep the bugs out.
Last weekend i experienced my first failure of my tent and it is directly related to the bug screens. I was camped out on the outer banks of NC over the labor day weekend in a beautiful setting. Started off with some bad weather, wind, rain, more rain... the RTT excelled.
Then, the weather cleared and it got dead calm out there. No breeze at all. When that happens on many of the outer banks islands, the bugs come out. Well, they did and they came out in mass. If it wasn't the green-head flies biting the crap out of you, it was the regular flies. If not them, the mosquitos were drawing blood like crazy. And then the "no-see-um's" came out. Some people call them sand fleas. Regardless of what you call them, they bite you relentlessly. If the wind is blowing, they are not an issue.
As night time came and it was time to climb up into the tent i came to a relization that the bug screens in the JB are too large! Tiny mosquitos and masses of biting no-see-ums tore me up all night long. It was probably the worst night of sleep i've had in the tent. My fiancé' said this is too much and i'm never coming out here again. I was miserable as well.
So, that's a HUGE problem JB! Please update the bug screens to smaller ones that keep the bugs out.