Gear Review – Nature Hike Opalus 3 – An Affordable 4 Season Backpacking Tent

As you know, just recently, we went on a backpacking trip with a four season, three person tent, and it seems like right now. This is the only review article that’s going to be out on YouTube regarding this tent. I tried looking it up, but I couldn’t find any other reviews. I did see like a promotional article, but there’s really no one else that made a article on this and I think it’s because they just are releasing this tent.

Let me have the pleasure of sharing this experience and information with you guys now. I do want to mention that nature hike did send this tent over to me for free for review, but they did not pay me in any other way, besides sending me over this tent, so I will give you my full honest review, based on my initial experience With the tent, I also one of the schools that that I will be doing a continual review on this tent, as I do want to test this out in the snow and hopefully it snow storm as well.

Now some of you have mentioned online backpacking article. This tent does resemble some other tent. You may have seen the design is very similar to the gila berg, not much GT 10 or the four season tent biphale Raven, which are their endurance forces in tents. Now, for the sake of this review, because of the similarity in design, I will be making some comparisons with the Healy bergna much GT just so.

We get an idea of the similarities and differences in the materials from this tent compared to the gila burg. One now the Opus 3 or the Healy, bergna Mott GT or the knowledge 3 GT are both three-person tents. So what we found so far is that we were able to each put a sleeping pad down and still have room on either side to put our backpacks in as well, but the materials are slightly different now for the nature hike, oh plus, 3/10.

The fabric is a 20d silicone coated nylon fabric. Now the curl on 1800 is a 40 d high tenacity, ripstop nylon. Now, for something like the he lyric tent, it’s about almost 9 pounds, it’s 8 pounds and 13 ounces or 4 kilograms, whereas the opus is 6 and a half pounds now, according to nature hike. The poles are 7001 aluminum poles and these are not DAC poles. So compared to the 7,000 won aluminum, I do have a set of dak holes that I that came with my Marmot Thor for season tent.

You will notice that the diameter on the nature, high poles, are slightly smaller. What I did like about the nature hike poles compared to the environment door poles, is that the amount of pole material that overlaps is actually greater in the nature ID poles, which means more of the poles, will overlap into each other. We did have the typical condensation that you’ll notice during slightly cold weather, backpacking trips, as you can tell there, was a lot of little mud, splashing and that was all throughout the tent.

And it’s because the rain fly, though, is slightly elevated and it did rain kind of hard last night and because it rained pretty hard it just kind of splashed up to the sides. We do have a hook right here. This is what we hung our Lantern last night. One of my graphs about this tent that could use some improvement is maybe adding some more pockets, as you can tell there’s one here, there’s one on the other side here and then this pocket here is used to just when you roll up the the door to Your stuff inside so with that said those are the only pockets in this tent.

I would recommend to nature hike, adding a few more pockets if possible, the tent did hold up well. Last night, we are pretty dry in here. I am going to test this tent in the winter time in the snow and hopefully a snow storm and a very windy condition as well to be able to see how that holds up. I do have my concern about the poles, but I guess we’ll find out in that test now. Currently, if you look on Amazon at the time of this review, this tent is priced at 250 US dollars.

Now, if you compare that with the ID of the fjällräven or the Healy Berg, of course, it’s going to be a quarter of the price. The design is almost identical to those tents. Now, this being a double wall, tent, usually a four-season tents, don’t have this much mesh on the top side, but what I’ve noticed with nature hike is that they do accommodate for more ventilation. So this is all mesh on the top half of the tent.

The rain fly is all covered with ventilation, on either side of tencel. That and and this end now, the tent did come with a footprint. Now. The other cool thing about this tent is that the inner tent has already been installed and hooked in to the outer rain fly. So if you do need to pitch this tent, while it’s raining outside you can without getting the inner tent wet now the material is to the nylon.

I believe it’s 20 D I’ll put the specs on the screen, but you can definitely tell that it is much more thinner, so it could potentially tear easily. Now the zipper is not YKK does have these straps just like in the other 19 nature, hike, tents for zipping up and down only time will tell through a long term testing. I do plan to bring this into a snow blizzard in a few months to test it in the snow camp now.

One design I do like about this is that there are zippers that you can zip down this way so that from the vestibule you can just unzip it up this way now I would have liked to see it go the other way around where the zip goes Down this way, so that you can just reach out from the inner tent within a few inches and just kind of zip it up that way, but this still it’s pretty decent. Now, as I mentioned before, the difference in materials do add to the ability for the price to be much lower when we did experience this tent in our trip, it did hold up just fine in that rainy weather and I have yet to see it perform in A snowy, true forces and condition which I am looking forward to doing in hopefully next month now, since this is a four season tent, I will be getting snow stakes for the backpacking trip into the snow.

Now this tent design is not a free standing tent. So you will need to camp or backpack into a campsite where you can hammer stakes into the ground. Without that ability the tent will not be able to stand on its own. You do need to have a place to stake out the guide lines to keep it taut. If you are camping in a place where the ground is just rocks, I would not recommend this time for that situation, but if you can find a place where you can plant the stakes into the ground firmly, then this would definitely be a great system to use.

Now, tents like these are best used when they are fully staked out with all the guidelines, because you need that constant tension all around the tent. I didn’t notice that, because I did not guy out some points of the tent, there was some sagging on the roof. Also, as you can tell, there was plenty of space in this tent. We had enough room for two people, I’m five-eleven and I was able to just lay inside with plenty of foot room as well as sit up, but you know sitting up in a tent.

You would have to be towards about the middle. If you go towards the wall, then you start to duck a little bit, so we were able to put our sleeping bags in the middle and then on each side of us. We were able to put our backpacking gear, our backpacks and whatnot. Now, if you were to ask me who I would recommend this tent to based on my initial experience, I would say someone who is definitely budget minded who does not want to spend over a thousand dollars for a tent of this design, as well as, if you’re.

Looking for a huge vestibule area, now my backpack with plenty of tents in the rain to know that for the price, this tent is actually pretty good, I mean it would probably be for what you’re paying for you can use it in three seasons and it’ll, be Great now for the snow, the fourth season in the winter that is yet to be seen, I am planning on creating a whole article just to have that test on it, but for the time being I’ll leave a link in the description regards to this.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave it in the box below now I have a few other gear items from that backpacking trip I plan on reviewing and releasing some articles on. So, if you’re interested in that, please feel free to subscribe. Also, I am going to do a follow-up article on this tent in a snow and snow storm. So if you are interested in that, please feel free or scrip subscribe as well, and as always I want to thank you all for reading.

Take care and I’ll see you next time.

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Top 5 Best Lightweight Tents for Backpacking

Adventure companion to protect you from wild weather. An ideal backpacking tent, should be strong and spacious and make sure comfort, enjoyment and utmost safety. But above all, it must be lightweight and must not overburden your backpack with its weight and space concealed. So you may try lots of options in the market for a lightweight backpack tent, but to make your life easier, we have prepared a list of top 5 lightweight backpacking tent.

Here you go. The Dirigo tool is a self-contained tray. Seasoned two-person shelter constructed with a blend of five different anemic composite fabrics optimally placed throughout this minimalist, but feature packed structure for the best ratios of weight, waterproofness, breathability and long-term durability. It is fabricated, with hundred-person waterproof fabric that eliminates the need for a separate rain fly, and the strongest man-made fibers in the world laid out in a grid within these fabrics means you can pitch the derivative without a crown sheet tube.

Most amazing thing is: you will need to carry a separate small diameter, aluminum poles since you’re, using trekking poles for incredibly robust structural support, so that reduces the quantity of hardware to carry. It features dual inch away along with breathable panels at head and foot to combat conversation. It also comes with two vestibules for exterior gear storage. With 5 YKK aqua guard zippers to maximize the ventilation, you will get 2 large mesh walls.

You can picture it with 2 trekking poles and 8 steaks. The internal mesh hanging straw pocket is there to keep stuffs. It also features two sidewall guide out points for increased internal space derivative ultra lightweight backpacking tent includes ex large drawstring stuff sack for storage. It is ensured that ultralight camping out in the wild couldn’t get much better with Dirigo 2 ultralight backpacking tent ray coop quarter.

Dome 2 is ultralight, tent weighing just 3 pounds 12 ounces. It’s a three season: backpacking tent, offering a generous living space where two adults can relax and hang out it features increased head and shoulder room and foot box room. Its dual stake. Vestibules is large enough to easily shelter all your gear from the weather, the floor and canopy utilise a lightweight and robust 20 denier ripstop nylon.

It has two large doors on fly, vestibule and tent body as easy to the entry and can be hung out of the way when unzipped Reiko up quarter dome comes with roof vent with internal zippered access helps control condensation. The adjustable stake out points makes take placement easy and allow for quick festivals tensioning. You can use a variety of pockets and hang loops to organize the interior. This tent includes a stuff sack stakes, guidelines and tie dinners, as well as a pole, repair, tube pull bag and a stake back as well.

The fly and footprint minimalist hitch option lets you leave the tent at home and use the fly poles and footprint as lightly children. Reiko up coragem is designed and built for solo backpacking trip where you cannot carry much and lightweight accessories mattered. The most MSR hubba-hubba is a three season: tent defines lightweight livability weighing in at just three pounds: eight ounces, its interior, provides plenty of head and shoulder room, offering spacious comfort.

It features two large festivals in store gear outside the tent inside the stuffed pockets. You can keep smaller items organized with the loops. You can hang lights at night. The tent features, lots of mesh for ventilation and kickstand vents to reduce condensation and increase air flow for wet days. The change carries forward. It stayed dry doors with built-in rain gutters. It features premium, instant, cyclone, poles, made of aerospace, composite materials, the flex under the force of heavy winds and bounced back to shape.

The extreme shield coating is therefore long-lasting, waterproof protection, while they are packed with technologies. The hub, the Cirrus tents, take up little space in your pack and come with a convenient wide mouth storage sack after your trip completely dry, your tent and store it uncompressed in a cool dry space to help prolong its life. It’s the best suited tent for you. If you’re out for a weekend or a week, long trip in the backcountry and cannot afford to carry extra weight, the duplex is a sweet spot when it comes to size, weight and features having the weight of just 21 ounces.

The duplex tent is one of the lightest two-person tents on market. It is fabricated from Cuban fiber it measures for the 8 inches tall at the piece giving you plenty of headroom. It features rainbow zipper doors on both sides of the tent, allowing for easy entry and quick access to both festival spaces. It comes with fully enclosed insect screen, preventing even the smallest of insects from getting into the tent.

The custom-made metal hooks are there to keep the doors closed. The storm door closure helps preventing the doors from flapping in the wind nights. It includes clip to pull the screen door back away from the rain spray. This tent has a solid eight inch tall bathtub floor. Measuring forty-five inches wide by seven and a half feet long, providing plenty of space for two average people to stretch out plus space for the gear.

At the end of the floor, even a separate ground sheet is not required. With this tent, a mesh pocket can be found at both ends to store your accessories. There is a screen between the bathtub floor and the walls at the end of the tarp. An elastic cord keeps the bathtub, elevated and sharing the screen slopes downwards away from the bathtub. The tent utilizes trekking poles to pitch the tent and comes with wine lock tree adjusters shown to all try out the duplex packs down super small, taking up very little space in your pack.

Thus, it’s perfect for any backpacking and hiking trips, Big, Agnes copper, spar edge. Vul is an upgraded member. Award-Winning, copper, spar series comes with better options. It features two large dual zipper doors and double vestibules offers discrete seams allowing for easy entry and smooth closure with sleek. Look it’s four way: high-volume, hub design, increases strength by 25 % and usable interior volume by twenty percent compared to previous versions of the copper spar, you will really notice that in the head and shoulder areas when you sit up or change clothes, the DAC Featherlite NFL Full system, with ultra light plastic clips, is super fast and intuitive.

To set up the flying floor features a unique property. Random rich thought pattern: nylon, which increases favorite, tear strength for 25 %, decreases the weight and increases water resistance, the media pockets located above the sleeping area enable clean headphone, cord routing from phones and other devices. It is fast fly compatible, meaning they can be set up with justify holes, footprints and stakes and used as very minimal shelter or shade.

The Big, Agnes, copper spur edge. Vul is available one to four people and in the second color option, always the tent is stronger. Lighter and roomier so you’ll be more comfortable, secure and resting easy in the backcountry and wherever your adventures take you. So these are the top best backpacking tents from us like share and comment your thoughts below. If you like, our articles hit subscribe.

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OEX Phoxx 2 – Budget Backpacking Hiking and Wild Camping Tent Review

I know I’m going to be ten crazy at the moment it seems to be my new obsession today. The 10 I’m going to talk about is the re x, fox 2 Fox Fox, with the pH now. This was 50 quid in go outdoors with the discount card, so I fifty quid it’s got to be worth a try. It’s quite a tiny package. You’ve also got loops on the side, so you can easily strap it to the outside of your bag.

No, it’s um, it’s a two-man tent and it’s a bit like their band sheet in design and I’ve got these scales. It says it weighs 2.1 and the packaging see exactly what it says with the scales 2.11 so yeah, it does say a lot of the times you see what they weigh and when you actually weigh on they’re different, but this is 2.1 bang on. So so now, let’s see how easy it is banging off. It says that the flysheet is waterproof to 5,000 millimeters.

The ground sheet is 2,000 millimetres and the inner is made of a breathable polyester material on the ground sheet, make sure they go through there as well, and then to the side. Okay into the pigs. It comes with they’re, quite heavy and they’re quite flimsy. So you can always swap them out if you wanted to change, but you spike even more the second ten I own now with two doors. So it’s quite easy to get it up but see that’s the inner sheet.

That’s gone up first, so in the rain. It’s not, I do now for the fly sheet. There’s clips on here, keeping the balance sheet and a fly sheet together, just the main pegging done on this side. So it gives you quite a nicer size vestibule in a minute, I’m not going to bother pegging everything, but you can see you’ve got the air vent guy ropes to give it extra support in the wind. You’ve got your twin vestibules over side, so you’ve got plenty of room for school in twin zips, with a zip on the inside, and the outside seems to be sagging a bit.

So it’s quite claustrophobic bits of material where you could hang a torch off of. It’s quite moschini a lot of mesh, so probably not a winter tent, but I think for the summer it would be fine, you know, is a little bit heavier than most tents. I’ll show you how the weight compares to the van Gogh van chi, which is you know, the other version of this tent. If you like, van Gogh’s version of this tent but yeah I’ll, be looking forward to trying this out at some point, probably wait until the summer or at least the spring, so my verdict – it is what it is for 50 quid, not bad, ten, two kilograms.

It’s not too heavy, it’s not too bad. It’s fairly easy to pull up, but it was a fine day and it wasn’t there wasn’t any wind, it’s not like the Banshee, where you can flow up the two skins together. This looks like the only way to put the tent up is to put the ground sheet and inner up first. Possibly that does let it down, but then it’s for the money. If your backpack on a budget, that’s a great little boy get down to go outdoors.

Now spend a fiver on your discount card and you could have that one for 50 quid at the moment, so that was another 10th review. Just the first look I’ll get out on company one night now I suppose the only thing left to do is to see how easy it packs away the tube suck again, so don’t get frustrated packing. This hasn’t gone down to compact II. I’m warming my way in there there you go so then it’s like you’ve walked poof bags and then there you go another budget tent, the oex Fox to Fox Fox, and I look forward to getting out and giving that try soon.

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Vango Mirage 200 Backpacking Tent Review

Today, we’ve got pitch behind me: the vengo mirage 200. This sits in there sort of adventure tent range, and so it’s recommended for daily usage or just sort of lightweight adventure camping. It’s quite a small sort of lightweight tent comes in at 3 kilos and it’s part of their premier range. So the premier range means that the fabric quality they use is quite high, so you’ve got a 70 denier, polyester fly sheet and a 5000 millimeter hydrostatic heads and tell them the waterproofing it’s way up there.

It’s also got fully taped seams so, where you’ve got these little holes running through, where the seams are sort of combining they’re, all taped underneath so keeping the water out – and you can see when I just push my hand across the actual fabric. It just all falls off and doesn’t go through the actual fabric, so the main sort of design of this tent is designed in a semi geodesic structure, so you’ll see where there’s lots of poles crossing.

So, for instance, here it all supports its own sort of structure. So when the wind is blowing, it’s just supporting itself, so lots of lots of pole crossing points, so the strongest tent you’re going to get geodesic sort of second strongest. This is the semi did. Is it you also notice? It’s got this Gothic archway porch. So the idea behind that is, it’s slightly bent into the top, and that gives a little bit more strength when you’re pushing it in through the top, so the whole whole tent just gives it a bit more strength.

You’ll also see that the poles are all made of aluminium again keeping down the weight. So, like I said earlier, comes in at 3 kilos and also the pack size can afford to be a lot smaller, because I’ve got the with fiberglass poles. You have big Farrell’s on them and they take up quite a lot of space, so you can’t have 2 million because of the weight, whereas these just fold into each other and sort of pack down to about that size.

So you can see the bag itself pack size is fairly small. You’ll also notice new for the sort of last year. Actually is these packs that make it really really easily easy to pack into so it’s top loading pack straight into there and then do that up and then you’ve got the compression straps around the side, so really easy to pack away really easy to put up as Well, it’s all color-coded, so you’ll see that this pole little tab here is blue.

This one here is red and the other side is is, is blue. The two poles are exactly the same length across each other and then this pole at the front there, which is the different size, is red colored in the middle, so you’ll have a red section in the middle. So it’s really simple and easy to pitch. Okay, so you’ve got multi usage door, so this folds up from one side sort of zips down and then you can do the same on the other side as well and throw that up.

So you’ve got full ventilation through both sides or you can have one up. One down both down so that works pretty well and then you’ve got this storage area in the front which comes with a ground sheet, then the eventing, as well just in the front there and down the back and on both sides. So we’re just going to jump in the tent now and how to have a look at the sort of size you get in there. So sooner so, actually in terms of length, you’ve got quite a lot of space, probably an extra sort of 50 50 centimeters, pretty from where I am, and I’m sort of 5 foot 8.

So so even someone 6 foots not going to be struggling with sort of size in here and then as well. You’ve got four two-man, actually sort of an extra arm to it. So I’d say: there’s something like comparing something like the banshee. You’ve got a lot more room in here than that, and then you’ve got the storage out the front plenty of sort of ventilation in the inner tent as well hanging points. One thing you’re missing at the back.

I know you’ve got some of the front, so you’ve got plenty of pockets. So for your storage little hanging light point but all-in-all I mean in terms of space. I’d say this is out of a lot of the adventure tents. It has got a lot of room for a two-man tent okay. So in summary, I think the mirage 200 is great tent for adventure, camping, int of activity, camping units, it’s three kala kilos, which is pretty lightweight for the space you’re, actually getting in the storage space.

In terms of the shape as well you’re getting great structurals sort of stability through it with it supporting itself in lots of different points where the poles cross. So I think, for things like expeditions, you know, like you know, going away to the Moors and Dartmoor camping for 10 tours div, which is what it’s recommend if I think it really suits the build, fits the bill, but in terms of sort of floor plan and Any extra details, if you want some more details, go onto our web site www.

Kpbs.Org/news/evening, the exact dimensions only sort of roughly gave them when I was lying in there and also, if you want to go on our YouTube blog, you can see it maybe compare some of The other tents that we’ve done, reviews on there are plenty on there. You subscribe to our YouTube, blog and you’ll, get updates if we do do any more sort of adventure reviews, but other than that, I hope you’ve enjoyed the review and thanks very much for reading have a good day.

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Hyke and Byke Zion 2 Person Backpacking Tent – With A Secret

Let’s take a look at a scion two-person tent for the folks at hiking bike and it’s pretty cool tents got some pretty cool features and one of them believe it or not, I’ll hold it in my hand. You want to see what that is stay tuned, because that’s what’s coming up next here on survival on purpose, welcome back to survival on purpose your home for information and gear reviews related to camping survival in general preparedness for regular folks.

My name is Brian thanks for joining me, so you may know that I’m a Scoutmaster as such, I feel pretty good a bit of camping and I’m pretty familiar with a lot of different kind of tents and stuff. I personally use a hammock, usually when I’m camping, but sometimes you just can’t use the hammock. If you go to film on, if you’ve been a filmography going to film on, you might know, but you can’t take a hammock there, a lot of place.

There are no trees and plus they’re really concerned about the damage that hammock, straps and rope do to trees when a lot of people are using using the same area. So tints are important. A lot of place. You just can’t use hammock, so it’s really cold weather. You can’t blah blah blah, I’m rambling on about the advantages of having versus tents, and that’s not what this article is about. So the folks at hiking biking kind enough to send me one of their Zion to person tent.

So I showed you, you may not be familiar to hiking bike, but they’re manufactures free, high-quality camping gear they’re, actually one of the top sellers of down sleeping bags on Amazon in the last couple of years and we’ve come out this line of tents several months back, They’ve actually coming out with you see, this was like a really bright, yellow color to the tenant stuff. It’s kind of green they’re coming out with a few other colors and fabric options in the next coming months, so stay tuned for that, but pretty cool tent there.

This is one of those that can actually set up in several different configurations. I’ll show you to set up the kind of fast feet and maybe doing a little bit of overdubbing in the old survival on purpose studio here and talk about what’s going on. So let me just show you how this thing sets up. Give you a little bit of setup on this. I decided to set it up, as I would in terrain. So, basically, you said: look this kit comes with a up the footprint and everything is included.

It’s got the footprint, it’s got, the rain fly, it’s got eight point five millimeter aluminum pole gives these nice aluminum stakes got like fluorescent, marked guidelines, it comes with the gear storage loft, it comes with the footprint it comes with. The comes with the bag comes with a really nice poles and it’s like a one pole set up. So what I did was I set up the fly first. So that’s what that’s what you probably want to do if it’s raining when you’re setting up, and sometimes that happens, especially in the Boy Scouts, then you set the tent up underneath and your tent stays pretty dry and you don’t have to worry about rain.

Getting inside your tent while you’re setting up the fly, so you set the fly up. First, keep the tent the bag and then go ahead, set the tent up under the flight. Everything stays drier that way, it’s just a little a little trick, but it also gives the option. You really want to go. Ultralight you’re, not it’s not bug season. You can leave the tent at home and just set up the rain fly itself as a as a shelter to keep the rain off of you and you don’t have to carry the weight of the tent.

So it’s got several different weight options. Instead of me going over all that right now, I’ll put it in the description to this article below you’ll be linked to their websites, going to have all that information to steam, check their website or Amazon or have the price on them will be links in the Description so anyway, this cut to death. Show you how this thing sets up and I’ll do my kind of overdub fancy narration in the more wrap this thing up.

Okay, this is the highly professional voice-over portion of the article, and you can see they came in a nice little sack. What I’m going to do is put out the ground cloth. First then open up the poles. This tent features a single pole, design where everything is basically connected by shock cords. It’s got hubs in the center. I just want to put each of the poles into the corner of the footprint and I’ve got a little metal grommets and the poles just stick in the grommets.

Basically, then, in this case, when you get the rain fly out first unfold it out where it’s over the right place, you can see one on the pole across the top. That’s going to go on last there’s little pockets and the rain fly to catch that. But the ends of the poles have a long enough kind of a ferrule on them to catch all the grommets that you need to need to poke them. In so polka mean that’s a nice um technical term for tent set up.

Basically, just you want to put the top little little wing pole there out to kind of spread it out. You put it in the pockets. You can see me crawl around in there and you’ve got everything in the connected to the poles. Let’s go ahead, open up. The flap, so you can kind of see what I’m doing here, it’s kind of hard to tell on camera. But finally, we going to take the ten out, I’m going to put it inside and basically lift up the corners and just put the ends of the poles.

In the grommets on the corners of the tent so basically got all three. Both the footprint the rain fly on the tent stacked on the bottom of the tent poles. Then this just has clips that you clip it to the pole frame, so it’s kind of self-supporting. Once you get everything clipped up, then just fasten the top spreader bar to the tent and you’re pretty much good to go. You can see it comes with some very nice tent stakes.

I always set it up. First, it’s a little easier and then stake it out. You can do it either way once you get it all staked out and just kind of put tension on it, then it’s pretty much where you need it. It also has. It comes with like some little vents on either end with a little stiffeners. It’s kind of hold it out to give you a little bit of a little bit of a dormer effect there and then stake out.

The vestibule has a vestibule on both sides, along with doors on both sides, and it also comes with a pretty nice little cord that has its own tensioners with it. So you can, you can tie out the rain fly and really get it spread out. Even a little further see the tensioners there sort of, and then i’m basically you pull those out if you, if you want to, gives you a little more ventilation underneath the rain fly and kind of mr.

Pres it out a little more and you can use them Or not, but once those are done, the tent is pretty much done. Okay, so that was how the set up is. I like the fact that it’s a one call set up, so you don’t have to fiddle with a bunch of poles and if you don’t, you know how to lose the poles. Hopefully, you know you’re just going to actually the first time I went camping with my wife, we had the big old canvas tent.

I set it up and there was a pole missing. I wound up having to cut a branch off of a green branch whittled down a pole and craft. The pole. There was at least get us through the weekend. It rained on us took the tent down yeah. The pole was under the tent. So another story all entirely but bottom line. This is a one pole set up everything shockcord together, as you saw it’s pretty cool setup. I like the way that works.

I like the fact that it has YKK zippers I like to kind of glow in the dark lines and mornings and other glow of the dark features on it kind of helps. You find it at night when you’re in a flashlight going. I really like the aluminum tent stakes and I guess I’ll go ahead and tape this the secret thing that I really like I’ve never seen before it was called a pusher. It’s just a little aluminum disc with it where they hold in the middle of it.

It fits the top of these tent stakes allows you to push them in if you’ve never had to deal with that. These things can get pretty sharp you’re trying to push them in your hand, it really hurts. Sometimes you can find a rock to hit them with. Sometimes you can’t this thing: this planes works. It is absolutely it’s almost worth the cost of admission right there. For me, I this is, I don’t know who thought of this, but I wish I had thought of it.

It’s a really cool idea weighs hardly anything, and yet it just works, and also it’s got enough of the broom here you can kind of catch it and you can pull them out with it too, so that little secret a secret weapon. There is pretty cool. I, like the fact that it comes with a footprint, comes with a gear loft. It’s got four corner pockets. It’s got a bathtub floor, it’s um, you know it’s not super super ultra light tent, but it’s also it’s pretty decent for around the five five and a half pound range for the whole setup, and you got several different options.

If you want to go, lighter or go, you know with a kind of a scale down configuration, so I like it, it’s big enough. You sit up in it. It’s just a two doors entry. So if you got two people who you’re not climbing over each other, it’s just a very nice tent. So I think we’ve established it’s a pretty cool tent. It’s got some pretty cool features. One thing is really important about tents. The purpose for this whole shelter thing here is to keep you from getting wet if it rains pretty much so with that in mind, since it’s not raining yet, it looks like it’s going to, but I want to go ahead and wrap this up.

We’re going to do a Hollywood thing and manufacture a little rain. So, let’s see what happens, what do you think was that a decent test, let’s see if it’s dry inside okay, so we’re going to go, go ghetto with the camera and go hand hill here, let’s see we can figure out here. So obviously we got some water on the drain flat zipper. There look inside see if we got any water in your here, I’m thinking it’s probably pretty good.

I don’t see any any any water inside it’s completely completely bone dry, yeah, so pretty good there. So we’re just leave it up for a couple days, so there you go it’s a pretty dry inside there, so we’ll call that one pretty decent okay. Well, that’s the hiking box. Ayah on two-person team from the folks at hiking bike got South is a pretty good choice for a tent. I kind of like the bright fluorescent color, but they’re coming out with some other colors, so stay tuned to see what those look like again, thanks to the folks at hockey bike for sending me this all showed you as always thanks for reading survival on purpose, I Put out a brand new article, every Friday and every Saturday, very often random articles so out the week you check out a new one by clicking right over here and if you’re not subscribed to the blog.

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Top 10 Best Ultralight Backpacking Tents | Camping Tents | My Deal Buddy

You’ve been looking for available in two three and four person models. This double door. Double vestibule tent is compact, lightweight and features a roomy interior with the added bonus of an easily adjustable fly for stargazing to set up your dirt Motel stake out the tent body in your primo location. The lightweight hub deck press-fit pole system is easy to put together.

Lay the poles, on top of the tent body, matching the color-coded pole segments to the correct corners, insert the poles into the light weight connector feet and raise the shelter into place. Add the ridge pole over the top and clip into place. Lastly, add the rainfly following the color-coded cording secure the hook and loop to the poles, connect the corners of the fly to the pole, tips and then snug.

It up finish by staking out your vestibule and going out your tent now climb inside and get comfortable in the spacious interior. If you want to enjoy a night of gazing at the Stars through the lightweight no-see-um mesh, canopy you’ll be stoked. With this fly, you can leave it rolled up as you drift to sleep. If you feel sprinkles, you can easily release these toggles close out the rain and get back to restful sleep in the morning.

It’s easy to pack away the tent into the convenient double tapered shark mouth carrying bag. The short segments of the poles keep your pack size to a minimum. Hey guys will here with Z packs, and this is the Tri flex tent. The triplex tent is specifically designed to fit three average-sized people or two people with plenty of extra room for your gear. The 10 is constructed from Dyneema composite fabric, previously known as Cuban fiber.

The tent measures 48 inches tall at the peaks giving you plenty of headroom when sitting up inside the tent. The triplex has rainbow zipper doors on both sides of the tent, allowing for easy entry and quick access to the two vestibule spaces. The two door setup makes it easy to get in and out of the tent without disturbing your partner. The tent has a fully enclosed insect screen. The holes in the screen are super tiny, preventing even the smallest of insects from getting into the tent.

The four storm doors can be opened or closed independently leave all four open on a nice night for a breeze and great views or close the upwind doors to block cold wind for 360 degree protection from the elements close all four stormed. The doors are closed, with custom-made metal hooks. We have also added a storm door closure that can be utilized on windy nights to help prevent the doors from flapping in the wind.

The tarp overhangs the bathtub floor by four to five inches in calm rain and under wet trees. One or two doors can be left open for airflow without water dripping. On the floor, space for extra rain protection with the door open use the included clip to pull the screen door back away from the rain spray. The tent has a solid sewn in eight inch tall bathtub floor measuring 60 inches wide by seven and a half feet long, providing room for three average-sized hikers or two hikers with plenty of room for your gear.

The bathtub floor is also made from Dyneema composite fabric, but it’s twice as thick as the canopy material and is more resistant to abrasion and punctures. There is a screen between the bathtub floor in the walls at the ends of the tarp elastic cords. Keep the bathtub elevated and ensures the screen slopes downwards away from the bathtub. A mesh pocket can be found at both ends of the tent and can be used to store small items like headlamps, glasses or phone.

The tent utilizes, your trekking poles to pitch the triplex and comes with lime, lock, 3-stone to all tie outs. The yellow lines are easy to see day or night and Dyneema has a very low stretch. The triplex packs stone super small, taking a very little space in your pack and comes with a DCF stuff sack well that covers all the features of the triplex tent. If you have any additional questions, just leave a comment below or reach out to us at Z, pax, calm, happy hiking, hi, I’m Mac with Big Agnes, and I’m here to tell you about the Scout two-carbon tent.

We took our Scout tent and built it using Dyneema. Fiber based fabrics to create an extremely packable, trekking pole, tent engineered to handle all the elements. The exterior trekking pole, design paired with vertical end walls and over vertical sidewalls, create a spacious floor plan. This a frame style tent requires two trekking poles or Big. Agnes accessory backpacking poles for set up reinforce pockets for your trekking poles.

Keep the tent body protected, self-adjusting guy outs on the tent corners increase, the interior living space. The vertical head entry door includes an extended dry entry, eave storm flaps on neg zippers. Keep the weather out. Dyneema fiber based fabric is ultra lightweight 100 percent rain proof and retains a high dimensional stability that resists stretching or sagging during temperature changes.

Its unique structure creates a fabric with high tear strength and allows for welded construction eliminating seams and the need for seam tape in enhancing its durability and waterproofness. A full-body vent system created by two wall length, mesh pockets with protective eaves, keep air circulating, while keeping weather out these products are intended for only the most advanced user, although extremely strong for their weight.

These tents are not indestructible and require careful use to decrease the possibility of damage special care during setup and extended. Trips is important as rough handling. Long-Term abrasion exposure to sharp objects or rocky campsite selection may result in fabric punctures and tears. We highly recommend using tent footprints with these tents to improve durability. Self-Adhesive repair patches are included in the event that repairs must be made on the trail.

The Scout two-carbon weighs a feather-light 11 ounces on trail you’ll, mind to see and feel this tent in action to believe the technical and ultralight performance of the crazy light carbon version of our classic Scout tent. This is our Hornet elite backpacking series offered in a one and two-person model. The Hornet elite is the ultralight tent of choice for extreme minimalist. Looking for the best and technical materials and design our newest version, opt is a generous amount of head space, while top-shelf materials and hardware keep weight down to a minimum 25 ounces for our 1p and 28 ounces for our toothy, we start with an ultralight premium.

10D coated nylon, ripstop and a slim profile in our tub floor to shave ounces yet still keep you cozy and dry. The seamless construction increases your tents, longevity, the no-see-um mesh canopy, keeps condensation and bugs at bay and turns virtually transparent at night for clear stargazing Hornet elites, highly efficient, full structure leverages DAC Featherlite poles for minimal weight. A single hub, intersection, color-coded pole, clip webbing, allows for an intuitive lightning, quick setup.

Our patent-pending fly bar volumizing pole clip is a new addition to hornet elite dramatically. Increasing interior head space by widening canopy mesh at the peak fly bars, unique shape and flexible composition. Distributes fly tension evenly to eliminate any stress points: triangulated reflective guy outs, increased volume at the foot protecting sleeping bags from tent wall condensation, our ultrafine 17 I’ll on rip stop fly is coated in a durable silicon.

Water repellent offering some of the lightest most reliable weather protection, possible. Large doors and vestibules offer easy access, and an ample gear coverage for each person for added livability corner deletes two volumizing Clips connect to the fly, expand the canopy outward. We’ve also added a small gear pocket for your essentials and light pockets, so you can turn your headlamp into a tent lantern.

Providing a pleasant glow through light. Diffusing fabric Nemo has teamed up with first light to introduce a collection of overnight gear, like none other previously designed keeping you warmer drier more comfortable in the backcountry than ever before, whether you’re headed out on a solo, multi-day hunt or just need a bug-out shelter for A day of fishing, deep woods tributaries spike is a truly minimalist tent that will get you even deeper into the backcountry single wall, to shave way to just over a pound and packed down.

Incredibly small spike offers the ultra light space and protection. You need to go further and stay in the high country for as long as it takes to punch your tag. Spike’s 30d nylon, ripstop fabric is coated on both sides with a premium silicone treatment for increased durability and offers the most reliable and technical waterproof protection. So you can weather any storm. A massive vestibule offers plenty of waterproof gear storage and opens wide to a unique pentagonal door for increased shoulder space and ease of entry.

Sheltered ventilation at the head and foot greatly reduces condensation on this waterproof single walled, tent Spike’s, no-see-um mesh pentagonal door. Further increases air flow for better temperature and condensation control, while keeping bugs at bay 3 included struts with triangulated guy outs. Increased stability while also volumizing spikes, tent door and foot end for increased space. While your trekking pole supports the peak to shave outs, a light pocket at the peak turns your headlamp into a tent lantern, providing a useful glow through light diffusing fabric and for greater visibility, especially at night spike is outfitted with orange, highlights and reflective webbing and guy Outs for minimalist, backcountry, hunters and anglers spike sets the new standard and lightweight packable shelters, so you can explore the wild Emma SARS hubba hubba tent has been a best-seller for more than a decade in a hallmark of the MSR tent line.

The three season tent defines light weight, livability weighing in at just one point: six kilograms or three pounds: eight ounces. In addition to keeping packs light, the hubba hubba NX is ultra livable. Its interior provides plenty of head and shoulder room, offering spacious comfort, whether you’re out for a weekend or a week-long trip in the backcountry with its two large vestibules. Storing gear outside the tent is easy inside stuff, pockets keep smaller items organized while loops provide a place to hang lights at night.

The tent features lots of mesh for ventilation and kickstand vents to reduce condensation and increase air flow for wet days. The tent carries forward its stay, dried doors with built-in rain gutters, and we maintained the light gray rain fly to create a pleasing, neutral light inside all this comes with some exciting new technologies. The hubba hubba now features premium easton, cyclone poles made of aerospace composite materials.

These poles flex, under the force of heavy winds and bounce back to shape ensuring your trip can go on. We also added our new Xtreme shield coating for long-lasting waterproof protection. This revolutionary coating lasts up to three times longer than standard coatings, so you experience far more seasons of dry comfort inside your tent combined with precision stitched seams Xtreme shield adds a new level of longevity to your hubba hubbas performance.

After your trip completely dry, your tent and store it uncompressed in a cool dry space to help prolong its life, while they’re packed with technologies hub a series. Tents, take up little space in your pack and come with a convenient widemouth storage sack whether you choose the solo hubba, the hubba hubba mother, hubba or the Pappa hubba you’ll enjoy the whole backcountry experience, including your time spent inside the tent.

Our new dragonfly backpacking series offers backcountry adventurers exceptional livability for a surprisingly lightweight, freestanding tent, designed with generous vestibule area and interior space at a mere thirty three ounces for the 1p and forty two ounces for the 2p dragonfly offers plenty of space without weighing your pack Down with a smartly tapered asymmetrical design that shaves weight, dragonfly offers ample head space where you actually need it, and massive trapezoidal vestibules that take gear storage to the next level at all tub floor starts with premium 20d coated nylon, ripstop, ensuring plenty of privacy and rain Protection to keep you warm and dry single seam construction ensures greater longevity, integrated 10d nylon and no-see-um mesh sidewalls provide significant airflow for temperature control, while keeping condensation and bugs at bay the black mesh blends into the sky for clear stargazing at night pre-bent DAC Featherlite.

Poles keep weight to a minimum while a crossbar and high arching main Pole, significantly increased volume at the head, peak and foot end color-coded, anodized, hub poles and matching webbing make for an intuitive ultra quick setup. Dragon flies premium 15d nylon. Ripstop fly is coated in a durable silicone water repellent offering some of the most reliable and durable weather protection possible.

Stunning geometry, secure pole, snaps and double stake points on the fly doors make for a more weatherproof design and superior accessibility to massive trapezoidal vestibules have multiple rollback points allowing for various exposure configurations and more gear stashing volume than any other tent in its class. Further, preventing condensation, we’ve added protected, strut vents at the top of each zipper flap ensuring proper ventilation, especially during a storm when you need it most for convenience.

Dragonfly is equipped with two corner gear: pockets at the head end and a generous gear loft at the peak. Also included are two light pockets, so each partner can turn their head lamp into a tent lantern, providing a pleasant glow through light diffusing fabric. Even our divvy stuff sack was developed to allow you to split the weight with a hiking partner for adventurers. Looking for a superior backpacking shelter that offers a refreshing amount of space where you need it most Dragonfly redefines the ultralight category and backpacking adventure gear and, like all Nemo products, your Dragonfly comes with a lifetime warranty.

So it will last with you through years of adventures, adulting is hard. Setting up your tent shouldn’t, be the Kelty late start is here for you available in one two and four person models. This 10 sets up lightning fast, even if nighttime is snuck up on you. After staking out the tent on an even flat patch of ground simply slide the to prevent poles into the Kelty quick corners and clip the mesh tent body into place.

Next arrange the rainfly using the color-coded guides then attach the hook and loop to the poles. On the inside of the fly attach the buckles at each corner now stick out the vestibule guy out your tent and voila you’re ready for a comfortable night in the backcountry. This lightweight easy-to-use tent has a surprisingly spacious interior thanks to the shape of the pre bed. Poles now, don’t you worry if you’re off to a late start when it’s time to pack up the late start easily fits into the shark mouth, carry bag and then stores compactly in your pack hit the trail when you please and keep worries at ease with the Kelty late start hi, I’m Rob with Bay.

I was here to talk about the tiger wall 2 & 3, featuring mountain Glo, tent light technology. The tiger wall, ultralight, mountain blue tents, are our lightest two door, two vestibule Mountain globe, backpacking tents, incredibly lightweight features include the comfort of two doors and two vestibules and a single pole design that creates a spacious footprint. The mountain Glo tent lighting provides enough light to read a book or organize gear without blinding you tent meet the DAC Featherlite pole architecture creates a strong structure that is light yet spacious, structured foot, bend corners, increase the usable space between your feet and tent wall, while The oversized ceiling, pocket and media storage creates ample and efficient storage space.

The dual entry door, design paired with the storm flaps on the vestibule zippers, keep your tent dry as you enter, and exit our low bed feature on the vestibule doors, allow for more airflow, while still providing maximum vestibule coverage. The target ball UL 2 mountain globe weighs in at 2 pounds 6 ounces on trail, while the target, while UL 3 mountain glove registers at 2 pounds 13 ounces, bring your best friend your dog or roll solo.

Without having to compromise on later space. The target all series of tents is the newest backcountry must-have. You

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Big Agnes Copper Spur HV UL 2: Backpacking Tent Reviews

This is a double vestibule double entry option, very popular one from Big Agnes easy to set up, probably the easiest to set up of all of the tents here. Open the door up here and check out the inside. You can see the mesh about halfway down keeps the splash at a minimum. All the way around the vestibule is bigger than the triangle mountain, and there are two of them, which is nice.

This one comes over to Stover, comes in at just over three pounds and a little bit bigger on the inside it all never the exact specs on the inside, but it’s a little bigger than the triangle mountain. The zipper tends to stick a little on the top, but it’s not too bad. This is more of your standard rectangle shape this one does have a mountain Glo option just got a nice, but it does actually add a few extra houses.

So your standard triangle shape, but it does taper slightly towards the foot, but not a lot. I can double bolt or double vestibule some storage area up there on both sides. Full construction on this is a little different than the triangle. Mount and you’ve got a u-shaped here and then why there you can see and then over the top another cross member here to keep the edges and its interior side pulled out.

So it makes a bigger on the interior, and then it comes down to another. Smaller yo3 way cross them over there to the back guy line on the back. This one has the clips where it attaches the fly to the rest of the straps there, for whatever reason I had a difficult time getting the flies on both side to be taught. This one did not have those poles to tighten the fly, so you had to restate if you needed to try to reach that the tension of the flies on the side, so that was something that could be improved, but overall, a really nice tent, especially on the Inside you can see with a little bit of the rain, this one sagged a little bit stretched out or whatnot, so I have to go back and restate that retie it about an interior room, good construction, good quality, Big Agnes, makes a nice tent.

You also have a vent here, which is really nice to keep to vut the condensation down. This is a double wall tent as well see over the rain fly. It goes over the top of the mesh interior, and then you have these poles of these guylines here. For extra stability, if you had some high winds and whatnot did great in the rain no moisture on the inside, so a little more sagging as you can see on the sides a little bit more so than some of the others.

Joe surprised, storm flaps for the zippers, all of them have that that’s a really great option. You

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Vango Halo 200 Backpacking Tent Review

Welcome to another one of our YouTube product reviews. Today, we’re going to be looking at the halo 200. That’s pitch behind us. This is part of their sort of adventure tent range, so they’re hiking temp range coming in at three point: seven kilos – it is maybe a little heavier than the sort of your average hiking tent, but this comes with lots and lots of poles.

It’s a semi geodesic tent, which is the whole reason sort of it. It’s that little bit more sort of weighty because it the idea is, it will stand up to a lot more sort of heavier condition, sort of windy or rainy condition. So schemey dude isn’t meaning that there’s lots of areas where the poles are crossing. But it’s not totally symmetrical, so lots of poles crossing means that there’s lots of stability and lots of strength so, where you’ve got pole cross in there, you can see it’s really strong pulse crossing at the top on the other side there and then where it, where They haven’t, got crushing, pose you’ve, got lots of guy ropes, coming off them as well, so just basically making it very, very strong, 10 natural ten itself as well comes with full aluminium set up, so the poles are all aluminium keeping down the weight.

I mean if this came in fiberglass it would be sort of five or six kilos itself. Okay, so hopefully, from this angle you can see the actual shape and feel for the tent. So it’s almost like one big round sort of circular sphere that goes up into this dome shape. The semi ddz dome shape, giving it its strength and structural stability, and you also get an extra door. So at the back, you get door entrance and here that you can get into the main sort of flush it in in a tent as well with a little bit of extra storage.

The actual tent itself is part of their premier range, so it’s also recommended for deer, V and camping. You know the awards games it’s perfect, for that. Maybe a 3.7 is a little bit heavier than some of the other trekking tents that we’ve looked at. In other reviews, but when you, when you take into consideration the strength you’re getting and also if there’s a couple of people walking, you can split up, poles maybe put the fly sheet in someone else’s bag, maybe put the innocent someone else’s.

So you can’t split the weight up a little bit the weather proofing of the tent. So look at the actual fabric they used. It was part of their premiere ends. You get a 5,000 millimeter hydrostatic head and you can see if I just flick that it all just drips off and sheds the water. So you know none of it’s going to soak into the fabric. It’s a 70 denier, polyester. So again, good quality. All of the scenes where they join the actual fabric together, where there’s lots of holes they’re all taped behind it, so you’re not going to get any water ingress through the through the seams themselves, so the inner tent hangs from the outer tent.

So you pictures, as one will take it down, like I said earlier and put it in someone else’s backpack. If you need to there’s plenty of room in here I mean this is again for the sort of size, maybe for the weight 10. It is is a great sort of too much it’s bigger than two men sort of. If you look at something like the Banshee or some of the other tents that we’ve reviewed, they are quite sort of a slim two-man tent.

This is comfortable too man for sure. In terms of me lying down, you know five, four, eight you’ve got you look quite a bit of length and, in terms of you know, you’ve got an extra foot at the bottom. There I would say for definite. You’ve got the extra door that will go out into the onto the back door. There and you’ve got mesh ventilation points there as well, just to let a bit more air through the actual outer section where you’ve got some storage.

You’ve got a little ground sheet. That comes with it as well, so again, if you’re putting a pack down that comes on both sides as well. So there’s one on there as well. You’ve got a ground sheet that you can just put your pack on, so it doesn’t get totally wet and saturated. In the morning, and then on the other side, you can see there’s one just in there as well, which is you know, think attention to detail any pockets in the grout indium in the tent as well so putting stuff an ax and a nice.

Little handy hanging. Point for your Lantern, if you sort for the evening time: okay, thanks for reading another one of our YouTube product reviews, so we’ve been looking at the halo 200, which is one of their DV recommended temps for adventures. I think really for size and the stability and the price and for the amount of space you get inside of the tent. I think it is really great value and also a great tent.

You know you are talking about this sort of semi geodesic design, which does give you so much more structural stability than your source that standard tunnel shapes fabric you’re getting on. It is really good quality as well. So, in terms of you know, I just I do think it’s a great adventure perfect for DV and 10 tools and and various award schemes and just for general camping. You know you’re going to be safe from that on the hillside with it.

But if you want any more sort of detailed overview of it sort of the floor plan, the exact dimensions check you’re going to fit in it. If you are tall, then pleases our website at wwlp.Com at UK, you can have a look at all the details back there or if you want to have a compare of any other product reviews, we’ve done with some of the other Vanguard, venture tents or any of The other ventures we’ve done, reviews on then visit our YouTube blog we’ve got loads of them on there.

You can even subscribe to it, so you can get a few more updates, but thanks again for reading, I hope you’ve enjoyed the review and found it useful. Have a great day,

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Backpacking Tent Review CLOSTNATURE Lightweight 2 Person Camping Tent

It’s a three season tent made for two people. They did send me this product review, but any opinion expressed this article is strictly my own. You can find out more about this product in the article description below there’ll, be a link there go ahead check it out. Do your shopping from there.

If that name sounds familiar, I’ve reviewed some other awesome camping gear. From close nature, we did some sleeping bags and some sleeping pads, and I was really impressed so today, I’m excited to review this tent for you guys. So now, let’s go ahead and open it up. Here are all the contents from the nice carrying travel bag that they give you. You can see. There’s instructions on the inside to show you how to set the tent up.

It comes with one carrying bag. Two aluminum poles, one inner tent one fly sheet, four ropes in 14 stakes, and they also give you one service kit for the stakes right there. You can see the steps to install it. They give you a nice thank you card with their customer support on it. So you want to keep that handy, and then they got a nice tag right here telling you it’s a two-person tent made out of polyester the size dimensions in case you’re wondering it’s seven feet three inches by four feet: eleven inches by three feet: ten inches! It weighs roughly five-and-a-half pounds, so it looks really nice.

I like this orangish brown color. They have another color online as well. You can check it out in the link below. So all those contents are in here, so let’s go ahead and look at them. So here are all the contents. You have your tent and your fly sheet right there, a nice carrying bag for the 14 stakes, your ropes right here and your aluminum poles right here. I really like the orange color on those poles now we’re to go outside and set this tent up.

The first step for us is to assemble the aluminum hull. Once you have the aluminum poles assembled you’re, going to cross them on the inter tent right behind me. Now we’re going to install the fly sheet right here, next steps going to be next. All of this takes the rope to finally adjust the fly on the tent. So I have the tent set up behind me right here. Installation was really easy and straightforward.

First, you want to do is expand all those aluminum rods cross them over the top. You clip them on expand them out. The tent raises up and you can put the fly over it and then use your rope and your anchors to attach it to the ground and then you’re all good to go and start camping. So let’s go ahead now and take a closer look at the tent. Rub the breathing and logo on the tent, I chose to attach the ropes right here.

Multiple sides actually have two areas where you can attach them so right here you have this side or you can attach it down here then you’re going to really want to step your stakes into the ground to attach this, but I want to show you how the Fly just buckles right in there and you can see where the aluminum stake goes as well, so you’ll really want to step that into the ground. The tent has two entrances to it, so you want to make sure you line up the fly with each side.

They got nice velcro right there and a nice the zipper on the fly and then your actual tent itself. You can see the netting right there that we have open and then maybe just maybe you’ll see a little bit of pouch there for accessories. You can see their nice logo again, there’s the inside of the other side. You can see how it zips and then the fly opens as well. You have another accessory pouch right there up top, it looks really nice and they give you a hook.

I’m hitting the tent right now. It’s really comfortable a lot of headroom to sit up in here, so you can fit two people sitting side-by-side in here definitely be tight, but this is definitely a two-person tote to lay down and sleep and plenty of room for some sleeping bags. If you’re in the market for some sleeping bags check out my close nature, sleeping bag and sleeping pad review articles as well they’ll be linked in here, you want to check them out if you’re in the market have really had those products as well.

A lot of space you can see right there, plenty of room to lay down in here, really happy with it really comfortable. I get a lot of head room. You have this nice door right here at this side. If you want to zip or unzip it and same with the other sides, you have two ways to get in and out of the tent. Thank you guys so much for reading this article. If you’re interested in that closed nature, tent go to my article description below they’ll be a link there, you can find out more details.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. I’d be happy to answer them for you or point you in the right direction. You could go hit that like button for me, subscribe to my youtube blog. I want you guys to be here for a long time with me. Follow me on social media as well. Facebook, Twitter Instagram check out my website join my newsletter message me on WeChat.

I want to hear from you guys and interact with you all, so thank you for being here be sure to check out my other closed nature. Outdoor product articles as well they’ll be linked in this article. So thank you guys again, and I will see you in my next article. You

I know that I keep mentioning Spunks, but I like these pumpkin seeds and you should try them too! They are just great for camping and other fun activities. The video below is a little bit of a look into the shop that makes Spunks.

 

GeerTop 1person tent Review

8 pounds. It only cost a hundred bucks. Now it’s just lightweight. Bargain live up to the hype. Well, I’ve spent a little time with it and I’m going to give you some pros and cons and what I think and I think you’ll be surprised, coming up next stick around hi.

This is Alan green and welcome to backpacker dad today. I’ve had enough time with this tent to give you what I really think about it. Now, it’s it’s. It’s only $ 100 off of Amazon and it’s use Chinese made. So you know it’s a knockoff, probably, but it’s a 20d sill nylon tent. That only weighs two and a half pounds or two point. Eight two pounds, eight point: seven ounces, I believe you’ll see in the picture there, but I weighed it and and that’s including these tent stakes, the tent stakes, the this actual bag.

I made it’s it’s a Cuban fiber I got into making some stuff sack some DIY and and – and I got three guy wires extra and I think ten or twelve tip stakes. I think they give you twelve or fourteen tent stakes with it and a lot of tent stakes. So it’s a it’s a real, reasonably priced tent. It’s made out of twenty D, SIL nylon, sort of and see here we have kind of it’s kind of small. You know I’m uh, I’m 511, so I noticed this kind of droop.

So I guess I have to there’s a few things that I still have to do to figure this out. But the thing I don’t like now is it, but that’s with SIL nylon in general. Is it when it gets wet it kind of sags? That is the drawback, but it’s a great tent. I’ve had the tent in in some rain. If I’ve went through, some rainstorm dry totally dry feel real, confident in using this tent in any kind of weather, and I even think high winds and stuff.

If you pitch it right, you won’t have a problem now. The other thing is is since it does go together with hiking poles. You will need to it’s. Not a free standing, tent you’ll need to learn to work your guy, wires and stuff and then like after the rainstorms you get up and your chants Aggie and you got to reap you know you got ta, tighten it up, but that’s that’s a that’s with any Sill nylon, the tub is we interrupt this program because it has come to the attention of the producers of this program that our presenter was in fact, given the wrong measurements.

The true measurements of the tub floor are as follows: thirty five point: four: three inches or 90 centimeters wide by eighty two point: six: seven or two hundred and ten centimeters long and now back to our regularly scheduled review programming and it’s kind of a it’s it’s. It’s a mosquito ish mesh and I like it because the doors are on each side. You can go out either way, so you can set it up, don’t have to keep in mind which way you set it up.

The vestibules are spacious, they’re, they’re, really pretty good size. I kept my pack and my stuff all under there and it rained and it stayed dry and the cool thing about this tent as well, is that you can take and use just the interior. You don’t have to put the second layer on, and it’s a very, very lightweight then, but you know that’s like if you’re camping and there’s not going to rain – and you know there’s no chance of any rain.

But you want to see the stars, you can just set it up with without the the rain fly, but the rain fly where you set up the rain fly. Even you know make it lighter with nothing underneath and still you know, get lightweight, and another good thing about this tent. Is that the top where you set the the the hiking poles then nylon has an opening that kind of sets in there. So you or it’s holding your poles across like this, it’s holding them.

The nylon is so they’re not going to slip out and go down because they kind of they do an angle. They kind of made to set they’re, not straight like this. They set at an angle, and but I had no problems with it, setting it up, it was easy to set up now the cons and the reason I will not be taking this tent with me on the Appalachian Trail is it’s small and you got to get Used to that, if you fear a very minimalist East, no problem, I mean, but I like to bring stuff in my tent and when, by the time it says forty three inches wide.

But by the time you get your pad in there and you’re laying in there. There’s not a lot of room for anything on this, so there’s you’ve got a little room on each side, but not a lot of room to bring in you’re not going to bring your backpack in your tent and that’s the biggest issue I have with this tent Is this just too small and it’s not freestanding so you know, but that’s because that’s the price you pay for doing that in Jordan.

He wants a freestanding tent, so he’s actually got a free-standing tee and a bigger tent. I let him use this tent and he was the same way. He did not like how small it was, but I will say for a tent: that’s a hundred dollars. This is a great deal, especially if you don’t mind, staying in a small tent, but this tent will get you through it. I mean if I had to use it, it’s not a problem. I opted to try a bigger chance because, honestly, you know, after sleeping in it, you know six seven days.

I said you know, I’m not going to be able to do this a whole week. Every diet – and you can’t hang anything to dry but we’ll give you a review of the tent. I replaced it with. You know that that’s a um that will probably be the tent I use now. I also try to hammock yes indeed, and, as I didn’t spend a ton of money now than with any of this, I’m not spending a lot of money. You know the tent. I really want, is you know 600 bucks, but I can’t afford that.

So I am kind of trying to find a tent that meets my needs or a shelter. Now, like I said, the the hammock I’m going to give it a try, still working the way out, and I will probably do a article on it but and there’s some great article online of guys, like my name, a sug. If you look at all put a link, if you want to know anything hammock this guy and he’s entertaining – and he he’s comes from a circus background, which is kind of sentimental to my heart, because I have friends that spent time with Ringling Brothers Circus.

And so this guy is entertaining if you’re into what to find out about hammocks. I am learning it so I’m reading him good check check out. That is the the skinny. I think, if you don’t mind it being a small tent. This is a great tent for a hundred dollars, there’s only a hundred dollars and it’s very light – and I think you could probably I haven’t – had it in real high winds yet, but you know the rain storms that I’ve been in.

It’s kept me dry and kept my gear dry and I think it’s a great deal, the gear top one person tent. If it’s right for you, like, I said the only thing, I don’t like it’s a size but check it out and I’ll see you next time on backpacker dad

I know that I keep mentioning Spunks, but I like these pumpkin seeds and you should try them too! They are just great for camping and other fun activities. The video below is a little bit of a look into the shop that makes Spunks.