With Shade Like Furnace

The Bodypac 4Men1D tent, set up at Pulau Mamutik
(translated as Mamutik Island), Kota Kinabalu
(translated as Kinabalu City), Sabah.

Hmm. What can I say? Just after several days buying the tent (covered in a recent post here), we camped at Pulau Mamutik (translated as Mamutik Island) in Sabah for about 4 hours. The Bodypac 4Men1D tent, being single layered, was a breeze to set up, taking only about 5 minutes. However, despite the 2 big vents on the roof and without using the vent roof cover, plus leaving the door wide open without netting, the tent still felt hot and stuffy.

The family's literally hot shelter.

There was little wind that day, maybe being the beach facing mainland and thus slightly obscured from tidal air currents. Still, the tent was set up under the shade of a tree, but air circulation by convection in the tent was poor, resulting in my youngest 7 month old sweat profusedly in his sleep. A 2 door tent or 1 window at the rear end of the tent would fair much better. But for the tent's price and superb trail weight, I can only comment that much. Oh well, it seems that my search for the perfect family tent is far from over :P

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