Finding your tent

[Lollypop1411]

Any ideas other then a flag for identifying your tent? Just worried cos there's only 2 of us going this year! Never find our tent lol!

[Paul ™]

Spray paint a giant cock on it

[Kyelo]

Thing is with tents, they are always target for thieves.

[Gothenburg83]

I have never lost my tent! but I have an ace sense of direction

[Lollypop1411]

Thing is with tents, they are always target for thieves.

[Lollypop1411]

I have never lost my tent! but I have an ace sense of direction

[Gothenburg83]

I could get lost in my own house! I have no sense of direction!

[Kyelo]

Yeah! Never take anything expensive with me anyway!! just worried bout finding it!

[Lollypop1411]

haha! good luck then

[Lollypop1411]

lol that was supposed to be flag haha meaning if you leave on your site it might get nicked!

[trocse]

Trail of bread crumbs seems to work.........

[Tony Harrison]

Call me boring and over-sensible but whenever ive camped ive always tried to position my tent near the corner of a particular field or near a particular feature like a lookout tower thingy. Makes things a lot easier when your stumbling about in the dark at silly o'clock trying to find the tent to get some shut eye.

I always like to be close enough to the toilets that its a short walk but not so close that people using them wake me up, i certainly do not camp down-wind of the toilets though!!

[RMcCole]

Spraypaint "free sex" on the tent next to yours. When the last act is done just follow the hordes of blokes..

Edited June 1, 2012 by RMcCole

[Kyelo]

I am blessed with a stunningly good compass, drunk or not I always find my way home. Never failed to find my tent at a festival even if I cannot remember!

[grumpyhack]

Never done Rockness but plenty of other fests (if you can find a tent at Glasto you'll find one anywhere). Try the right angle approach. Walk up a road or pathway till you have a turn off point at 90 degrees to your tent. Note where you turn off the road/path. Look to the distance beyond your tent and fix on an object or landmark (a tower/sound system). Then just walk in a straight line towards the landmark and you should find you tent.

Practice by daylight first.

[Lollypop1411]

Great ideas! Especially the spray paint one lol!

7 days to go!

[rachbon]

Once I've pitched my tent I always have a wee look around to see what's nearby. If there's anything like food vans/stalls/flags etc, then it's usually easy to remember roughly the right area.

[grumpyhack]

We've also tried flashing solar powered lights up our flagpoles so they stand out at night when often it's too dark to otherwise see your pole.

[rexclark]

Some good advice here. I'd have to agree that finding a landmark eg, toilets or stalls and work out what direction your tent is from there and try to remember anything noteable about the tents around you like flags etc...

[Lollypop1411]

Thanks guys! Your wee babes! Will let you know how I get on!

[grumpyhack]

Make sure that any landmarks are not moveable or likely to move. One year at Glasto I made a mental note that I'd parked my car next to a big red van. Problem was that the van left before me so no landmark and I spent ages trawling round the car parks trying to find my car.

[Throbber2012]

Rent-a-Lighthoose!