When dry, the door position is so easy to just plop down into, or get your shoes off.Īs for the stakes. The rainfly door is sloped and without the vestible, its hard to enter/exit the tent during a rain. I had no problem getting dressed or rolling my gear. And the single pole design has steep slopes that limit headroom. Yes, it has no vestibule for gear storage. Beat out over half of the $$$ tents, but only because it had less headroom/ no vestibule. Oddly enough, with the inexpensive mods, it came in at 3lbs, 2 oz. I decided to join the fun and weigh my tent. When we made it back to the vehicles, someone broke out a scale. I did get teased by the 'ounce-counting' backpackers about the plastic tarp floor, but I didn't mind. I did attach small lines to the rainfly stake points to pull it away from the tent to increase airflow, drainage, and to give the stake a bit more horizontal hold. First time out, we had 5 inches of rain, and not a drip inside the tent. The main seams on the rainfly were taped, so I seam sealed all of the visible thread. First thing I did was change out to an alminum pole (15$ ebay). I just purchased one on clearence (2014), and I'm satisfied. Invest in a decent sleeping pad they can cost just a tad more than that silly air mattress and are so so so much lighter in weight and pack up 1/4 of the size of those leaky air mattresses. Air mattress are not insulated from the ground and will suck the warmth right out of you. Oh and PS dont use a silly velour fuzzy air mattress when camping like this guy did in the photos above thats a sure way to freeze your butt off at night or at best freeze your backside off and be still hot ontop. Its a great loner tent or tent to give to a new backpacker etc. New this tent is going for 40 bucks online if you can still find it as I dont see it in to many places anymore. Other than the bazillion tent stakes it takes to pitch this tent its a great tent. But hey what can you expect for a cheap tent. The other issue is I dont like the tent floor material its that blue home dumpo tarp woven material but in beige color so its a bit crunchy and stiff. IF they just put a long single strap to the tent floor corners with nylon strap made to fit the lenght where you stake the rainfly you could use a single stake instead of 2 on each of the four corners. On the four corners of the tents are loop straps where you put the stake head through to secure it to the ground Then when you put the rain fly on you put another tent stake in the same corner spot but with its own loop! so your putting 2 stakes in near the same spot doubling the amount of stakes your using. The company really screwed the pooch on this aspect of the tent design. The CONS: First my biggest deal breaker on the tent is how many stakes it takes to stake the tent out a total of 13!! Way to many to be using if you had to set this tent up in a downpoor or at night or on hard ground. The whole tent packs down easily to a small backpacking solo tent size just as small as any of those 300 dollar tents from Mountain Hardware or Marmot or Rei. It even has some reflective material at the door points. I also like the rainfly with its bright color and material which feels top notch and works well shedding rain. The door is wide and easy to open and get in and out of the tent. The tent is warm and snug as well as water tight and waterproof with that rain fly on. I would suspect it would fit a 6ft man without touching your feet or head on the walls of the tent. I am 5'8" 185lbs and built like a bulldog and the tent has plenty of room. I also like the floor layout design its plenty of room for 1 man and his large backpack and gear to spare. I sleep in warm damp weather too and it was not swampy or did it have condensation build up inside the tent walls. The tent gets plenty of fresh air flow and has plenty of mesh netting for opening it up and sleeping cool on a hot night if needed. Which also really helps the 2 smartly designed rainfly vents that are made into the rainfly. Also the high steep walls shed rain well and the man of war jelly fish "FIN" style shape slices the wind if you pitch it in the right angle to the wind. Its high enough to sit up in and change cloths. One is the high arched roof design for a single man tent. It makes a great first time lightweight compact solo tent for those starting out backpacking or kayaking or solo treks on motorcycle trips etc. Considering what it goes for new let alone used its a bargain for sure despite the downsides of the pitching design of the tent. I bought it used on a whim for dirt cheap.
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