I spotted a comment this morning about setting up a tent in less than two minutes and "perhaps even less than one" so I thought of starting a contest on speed set-ups.
Here are the rules based on the way I do it (yes I am already ahead…) :
1 setter upper only (no group effort)
the shelter/stakes/poles have to be in the stuff sack at the start
The time starts when you touch the stuff sack and ends when your hand leaves the tent fully set up.
trekking poles can be extended to the correct height (my elbow height happens to be the height I need)
No marking the ground
"shelter" is the complete tent, fly with the inner (or fly only for a single wall)
It needs to stand up looking as it does in the official photos
for full accreditation you need to have a YouTube clip of that with one uninterrupted take , no cuts/editing but you can submit your times without video anyway
All of the tent needs to be visible during the set up
(I get my times from the timeline in my editing programme, 25 FPS)
nothing serious here because backyard set ups are not exactly the same as in the bush but it may be just something to do for some.
so lets see the best time overall and the best time for your tent.
I have 49 seconds for the Moment and 50 seconds for the Contrail.
(be careful not to damage poles or fabric doing it)
As an example this is not a valid set up :
This is :
sample of YouTube set up :
