The inside of my backpacking tent very damp in the morning when using the rain fly. How to stop?
June 1st, 2008
The Aggie asked:
I have a 2 person backpacking tent. When using the rain fly and after a full night’s sleep, the inside of the tent is completly damp. Is this from normal tranpiration of the people inside? How do I reduce the amount of moisture or completly stop it? Is it just the tent that I have?
I have a 2 person backpacking tent. When using the rain fly and after a full night’s sleep, the inside of the tent is completly damp. Is this from normal tranpiration of the people inside? How do I reduce the amount of moisture or completly stop it? Is it just the tent that I have?
it is probably your tent. or you might be knocking against the walls of the tent so the water could seep in. that what happened to the tent i wasin.
1. Is your tent waterproof???( Did you spray it?)
2.Was it on a ground cloth?
3.Transpiration of the people inside will cause moisture on the inside walls of your tent, but it shouldn’t cause so much dampness that should worry anyone.
Also if to were camping while temperatures where below freezing during the night, this could have caused alot of your problem.
When camping you have to leave the door open a bit in the winter type months to prevent suffocation.
Might have been your problem.