Eureka brand discontinued

Well damn, that’s depressing.  I had a few Eurekas, and they were always a decent tent.  Hate to hear that they’re gone.

My first backpack was a Eureka!  that I purchased used off another guy in our outdoors club.

The Eureka Timerline 2 tent seems to have been a staple of Boy Scouts of America for YEARS.  I got used to seeing group encampments of BSA troops and there were always a handful of Eureka Timerline 2’s neatly pitched in a row.   I guess they were just the perfect combination of bomb proof and budget friendly.

It’s the corporate world. Eureka is just a name that’s been bought and sold. Coleman was once the goto. It may be Core now. New blood is coming. The Pepsi generation has made a good run.

WE still have that same Apex tent, and use it from time to time, both for car camping and also for shoulder season in questionable weather.  Good tent, but as you noted, it’s heavy.

Meanwhile, I think I tried, years ago, to get a replacement part for a Eureka tent and was told it was under new management, and the new management didn’t take any responsibility for problems that occurred under the previous management.

That’s a great way to go out of business and demolish a brand.

I’ll never forget the night our Scoutmaster walked in with an armload of Timberlines to replace our canvas tents. Has anyone else ever noticed how receptive canvas is to smells – especially beanie-weenie farts?

^^^  “beanie-weenie farts”   Classic. Thanks for the chuckle.  The short time I was in scouts (we moved all the time due to dad’s job in the USAF), the smell of the canvas tent……   The Orienteering sport I do now is often at scout camps.  There are still the 2-person tents and platforms.  Occasionally we are out doing field work prior to an orienteering event so I have time to walk over to one of the set up/waiting tents.  Yep, that’s the smell I remember.

Yes… there are a number of old farts here :)

Eureka when I was growing up was one of the exemplars of value priced gear. The Timberlines was a wonderful upgrade to the BSA Canvas (and the later Nylon version) of the Voyager tent.  The 4 man Timberline was also a staple for YMCA outdoor programs in my area such as their extended canoeing trips into the Temagami Lake District.

Fond memories. Here’s one I owned 25 years ago, with my once-in-a-lifetime dog, Rosie, in the tundra below San Luis Peak in the La Garita Wilderness.

My Scout days preceded any nylon tents.  Started with army surplus pup tents that buttoned together down the middle – each boy carried one half of the tent and one of the two tent poles.  There was a certain elegance of that distributed load, as long as your squad always had its members killed in even numbers.

Yeah, we stocked Eureka tents in the 1980s as a solid car-camping option in a cabin tent or something for backpackers who wouldn’t spring for the Jansport.

I recall picking up a Walrus micro swift, I believe, way back in the day. It was on discount at the local used and discount gear shop. As I recall it weighed a ‘mere’ three pounds or so. What a coffin! I was fine with it as long as the weather was good. I couldn’t sit up in it. It performed well in heavy rain however. But I’m claustrophobic. I had to get out! the last time I used it, a heavy August rain storm came into the Sierra out of Japan. I kept trying to get out and day hike into the storm but kept being driven back. In the end I packed up and hiked out. Good choice! That storm lasted several more days.

I suppose that my dislike of Bivy shelter goes back to that unfortunate experience.

Still, at the time, that Walrus tent was super light. Walrus too has gone the way of us all, into the winds.

Think of it as sitting under a tarp watching the rain.

my apologies for the thread drift to Walrus tents. the connection for me is that Walrus was another manufacturer many were familiar with back in the day. I hope you all have a nice day.