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daveIT 04-25-08 07:31 PM


Originally Posted by daveIT (Post 6555312)
Just got a Big Agnes Emerald Mountain SL3 from www.topsleepingbags.com. Super easy setup, a natural color, real roomy 5lb 10 oz / 11 oz for footprint / 3lb 15oz fast pack, Backpacker Magazine award winner. If you get the optional vestibule you can stick your bike under it...it's huge but it adds 1lb 4oz.

I was going to get it from REI because I had a 15% off coupon. The tent is $399 at REI so it would have been $340. I looked online and founf the other site. The tent was $246 and shipping was $40 (I got a gear loft and the optional vestibule too). They have a bunch of nice tents...the sleeping bags are kind of limited.

Highly recommend the site above. My tent arrived in a rather quick 5 days (to Alaska...it usually takes a week or so). Great prices...check them out. I was planning on camping this weekend, but Mother Nature decided to drop a bunch of snow on us again....not fair I was in shorts / t-shirt enjoying 50 degrees 2 days ago!

NoReg 04-25-08 10:47 PM

Any time you want to shop for tents on a weight basis, be sure to weigh the actual tents in question. Maybe this has changed in recent years, but when I worked in the biz, real weights and listed weights were not even close. This goes on with frames also, there are some numbers that are not correct on charts, the companies just fake them because they know what we want to hear. You may think you are only dialing on a 2 pound difference, which is a 40% increase, but there has to be more to it. You are either going to a less rugged tent say a lighter pole config (which probably doesn't mater). To increase the floor space laterally by 100% or even 75%, you should experience a direct increase of weight of the same extent and that assumes no increase in the tent height.


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