OT : Getting it up in seconds....

I had a MkI Khyam Tunnel. Still have I suppose, it sleeps in the
loft, dreaming of the high days and holidays on Scottish and French
campsites it endured for four years.

Not small or light in comparison to modern pole-and-channel stuff I'll
give you, but it fitted in my 55-litre Oxford Paddock Sack (Not
Suitable For Use On Motorcycles(!)) with all the odds and sods,
snugged up to the tailpack which held the double airbed and bag(s).

About the same weight and overall bulk as a slab of beer, but easier
to get up and quicker to get down than either the beer or any other
bugger's inferior tent. The real beauty of the design is the
ready-attached inner tent (although detachable, I only did that for
cleaning porpoises) and the umbrella poles, also ready-attached.

Flop the grounsheet protector down, stand the mass of poles up, find
the centre loop and stand up - the thing spread out like a jellyfish.
Walk around snicking the pole joints and the thing's up in two
circuits, as quick as writing this. Dry inside, pegs optional. Would
comfortably sleep two in the inner, space for two or three bikes or
four bodies in the otehr end of the tunnel. As rag sheds go, a fine
example.

 

Get it up for EOSM then

 

There was an *OSM not that long ago, when I had to kip elsewhere due
to that particular tunnel being jammed with sleeping bodies by the
time I went to turn in.

 

Kaaaaaaaants, the lot of them