VANGO TENTS CONSTRUCTION & PITCHING

Vango has spent the last four decades testing and developing innovative designs and fabrics to meet the demands of mountaineers, climbers, trekkers and camping enthusiasts alike. As part of our ongoing commitment, we offer on all of our tents, the Vango Lifetime Guarantee.

Through the crossover configuration of poles, a Geodesic design is recognised as an exceptionally strong and stable structure. The inner tent fabric tension is spread evenly between the pole configuration providing the strongest frame for the flysheet. With the flysheet in place, the pole configuration is further compressed, increasing its structural strength.

Similar to a geodesic structure, however there are less poles and therefore less crossover points. This configuration provides a good balance between overall structural strength and weight and can be found in many of our tents from Mountain, through Adventure to Leisure. As with the Geodesic design, the inner tent fabric tension is spread evenly between the pole configuration providing the strongest frame for the flysheet.

Now the most commonly used structure for tents, Domes can be erected inner first, with throw over flysheets or flysheet first, with the inner being hung inside the flysheet later. The advantages of our "flysheet first" pitched tents include faster pitching, the whole tent can be moved as one, and the inner is unlikely to get wet if being put up in the rain. Our dome tents that utilise an "Inner first" pitching system and have a lightweight pole configuration have the advantage of being more stable and wind shedding.

The less poles you use in your tent design the less it is likely to weigh. This is where single, double or multiple pole tunnels score over other designs. They can of course be less stable in high winds but we have remedied this by incorporating our unique TBS® (Tension Band System), TBS Pro® or TBS II® on the mountain usage tents or large models.

A hybrid, using both Dome and Tunnel technology, with the advantages that both bring to tent design – the domes providing the stability, and the tunnel parts providing the living capacity.