The extra I get to know this tent, the extra I like it. Happening two years with it by my aspect, it is my go-to for principally each journey from meandering backpacking in Appalachia, to nights out within the desert, to automobile camping-slash-surf journeys to the seashore (peek my actually COOL wetsuit hand tan above). It is semi-freestanding, which means it has poles for the principle construction however needs to be staked out to achieve its max capability (although as you possibly can considerably see above, generally I simply wing it and let or not it’s “freestanding,” letting my extensive sleeping pad fill out the ground. The rain fly (not pictured as a result of…California, however included) does should be staked out, however even the stakes are ultralight. That is proper. This whole tent weighs in at simply 1 pound and seven ounces. I do know! It is unimaginable. And I actually do not feel like I am lacking out on any options. There’s just a few nice inside mesh pockets the place I put my cellphone, headphones, and headlamp, a pleasant vestibule once I put the rain fly up, and all of it packs down SUPER small. I imply, simply take a look at that stuff sack. That is actually the whole tent. Nothing in need of miraculous! The tent has loads of room for little previous me, and in the end, that is all I really want the tent to carry! I sometimes sleep with my pack at my toes (I am 5’6″ and have discovered that it may possibly cool down there with out me having to sleep with my toes on prime of it), however more often than not I let the vestibule do its factor and luxuriate in having the tent to myself. This tent has saved me dry and heat by just a few years of adventures, and I look ahead to placing much more miles and nights on this factor through the years. Definitely worth the splurge, particularly in the event you’re an ounce-counter who would reasonably not go completely non-freestanding…a minimum of not but.
You may get the official footprint here, however tbh I simply lower an inexpensive blue tarp to measurement and discover that that works nice. On my final journey, I even obtained courageous and put it up with out a footprint, and it fared simply nice. In all probability not suggested, however the extra you understand! The tent can also be accessible in a two-person size and in an analogous, completely freestanding model known as the Dragonfly.
Value: $579.95