Raising the Roof

Raising the Roof

Depending on the size of your tent, raising you tent structure can be the most difficult part of setting up your tent.  As I said on my previous post, ask a friend, family member, or neighbor for assistance, if you think you might need help because of the size of your tent.

Installing Poles And Stakes

1. Guide your roof poles through the tent roof sleeves.  (The Copper Canyon 6 has two roof poles, but some larger tents can have more.  Smaller tents may not have roof poles at all, but have poles that support both the structure and roof)
   

   

   Slide Roof Poles Through Tent Sleeves

   

   Watch For Snags In The Sleeves



Roof Poles Create An X In The Center Of The Roof

2. Insert ends of roof poles into plastic sockets located and attached to the tent at each corner of the roof.  (The tent roof is now ready to be raised.)

   

   Roof Pole In Plastic Socket

   
   

   

   Roof Structure Ready To Raise

3. Raise each corner of the tent structure with structure poles.  (Start with the four corners, if you have more than four structure poles.)
4. Insert top of the structure pole into the bottom end of the plastic sockets already attached to the roof poles.  (On the Copper Canyon 6, the top of the structure poles are open and the bottoms have plastic capped holes.)

   

   Plastic Socket With Structure And Roof Poles Installed

5. Insert bottom of the support poles onto the metal pins attached to the bottom of the tent on the metal rings.

   

   Fit Pins Into Bottom Of Structure Poles

6. Attach tent clips to structure poles after all corner poles are connected and pinned down.

   

   Raise All Tent Corners Before Attaching Clips

   
   

   

   Attach Clips

7. Re-position the tent, if you moved it around while raising the roof.
8. Hammer stakes through the loops located at the bottom of the tent.  (To avoid injury, do not hammer stakes into wood or rock.  Trust me, you will have a very difficult time removing stakes from tree roots.)

   

   Hammer In Stakes

Your tent is structure is up, now all you need to do is put on the fly.  See my next post to finish the job.