How to pitch the Cabela eight-person tentThe instructions for pitching our Cabela eight person tents are printed on the tent bag. But they only include line drawings, so we thought some pictures might help. If you borrow one of these tents for a trip, print a copy of this page to make the job easier, but be sure to actually READ THE INSTRUCTIONS and try to find not the minimum two people to pitch it, but four or even six.
There is one shorter pole for the rain fly.
The tent has six poles all the same size. Three of them go into the three mesh pole sleeves at the top in a triangle:
or as in this closer view:
The Outdoor Club bought many of these tents and each is a little different. On most of them the pole sleeves are color coordinated. All the sleeves for one pole might be gray, for another, off-white, for another dark green
The other three poles don't go through any sleeves.
All the poles go into ringpins at the bottom corners:
The tent attaches to the poles with simple plastic clips along the pole lengths:
and with clips or velcro that wrap around at pole intersections.
 
It really helps to put in all the poles and clip them along their lengths to get the tent into a proper shape before you wrap poles together at intersections.
Other logistics of pitching and living in a tent in the snow and/or rain are at: First-timer's instructions
for fun: an eight person tent holds this many campers
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