Originally Posted by
Rowan
However, I am not a fan of tents that are complicated by having more poles than they need. The REI, judging by the pictures, has a couple more poles for the "vestibule", and those add weight and the possibility of being lost.
I don't think this is the case. The Quarter Dome T3 Plus tent that Chef posted appears to be similar to other REI Quarter Done tents that I've seen: REI calls it a single "hubbed" pole, but it's really three poles with two different lengths. Since the poles are connected to hubs, you'll likely have all of them or none of them. As I recall, the vestibules need to be staked to maintain shape; they don't use any additional poles.