If there is any chance of rain, make sure you rig the fly so that it doesn’t touch your main tent fabric anywhere. You should be able to peg the walls a few inches out from the main tent body, and even attach guylines to the white tabs to hold it out. Because of surface tension, if you have the main tent fabric and the fly touching you may develop a leak spot - not good.

If you have had to pack away your tent while it is still wet, unfold it and set it up at the soonest opportunity so it can dry out. Wet tents can begin to smell and grow mildew if not dryed out.

If you are camping and it is raining a lot, check with your landowner and ask if its o.k. to dig a small trench, say 3″ wide and 2″ deep a couple of feet out from your tent perimeter, with a runoff channel at the lowest point to carry the accumulated rainwater away from your tent. This will help to keep the ground under the tent from getting waterlogged.

When pitched on a campsite, personalize the outside of your tent with a flag or banner. It reduces the opportunity for somebody to “check out” your tent contents because they, um, thought it was their tent by mistake …