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Food Storage

Never store food in your tent. Animals will often tear or

bite their way into a tent to get your food.

Tent Pole Care

When assembling the poles, never allow the pole

sections to snap against each other. Always make sure

that all pole sections are fully engaged before bend

ing (ﬁg. 5). Keep the poles clean and free of silt, sand,

and salt, taking special care with the tips as they are

not anodized and can corrode. When disassembling

your poles, always start from the center, then work your

way to the tips. This allows the elastic cord to be evenly

stretched, an important factor when the poles are stored

disassembled for a long period of time.

Using tent poles near saltwater. Special care should

be used when storing or using aluminum tent poles in

saltwater environments for an extended time. Clean the

tent poles with fresh water or for additional protection

use an aluminum lubricant such as Boeshield. You can

ﬁnd out more about Boeshield at www.Boeshield.com.

The use of aluminum lubricants is not necessary under

most conditions, as Easton aluminum poles come hard

anodized from the factory.

FI EL D RE PAI RS

Poles

If you break a tent pole, you can temporarily repair

the break by splinting the pole with a short aluminum

repair sleeve. The aluminum repair sleeve is ﬁtted over

the broken pole section (Fig. 6) and taped (or wedged)

into place. Ski pole repair sleeves, tent stakes and even

branches can be used to splint broken tent tubes.

Zippers

One of the keys to zipper longevity is to keep them away

from sand and grit. When pitching your tent, be care

ful to keep the door and window zippers out of the dirt.

Never step on the zipper. Keep zippers clean by washing

them (at home) with a garden hose and pressure nozzle.

Most zipper failures result from wear to the coating on

the inside of the zipper slider (the metal toggle). Once

that coating wears off, the metal abrades rapidly, and

the zipper slider no longer joins the continuous plastic

coils securely. The plastic coils then tend to separate

behind the zipper slider. You can replace a worn out zip

per slider with our patented Zipper Repair Clamp. The

Zipper Repair Clamp (Fig. 7) is available from your local

Mountain Hardwear dealer.

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