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Old 11-26-15 | 05:01 PM
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hueyhoolihan
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i've pretty much moved on to free-standing tents.

and although i had nothing bad to say about my first (now ancient) Sierra Designs tube tent, it was small enough, and the poles were short enough and it was light enough to work well as a tube tent, i've found that as tube tents get larger, the design, especially the two poled tube tents, simply can't handle the weight. the stakes can't take the load. an example is the Sierra Designs Flashlight II. i tossed it out after too many nights in poor weather trying to hold it together from the inside.

even some free standing tents (example the North Face Tadpole 2, oddly enough with 3 poles, are becoming so large that they only suffice, IME, as a light use, good weather tent.

that being said, i doubt very much that that tent would materially affect an overall camping experience in any negative way.

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