Well it took nearly 48 hours, but I now have setup the tent. Right away I found the weakness of a non-freestanding tent as my site location way my freshly plowed gravel drive. Frozen and minimal snow on top made it somewhat harder, but I just wanted to see if it was possible anyways. Used the minimum 4 stakes to set it up and am VERY impressed with this thing.
The vestibule is enormous and the living space is only slightly smaller and less headroom than my Big Agnes Emerald Mountain SL3 (for sale in the swap & sell btw...shameless plug I know). Anyways, I can see that vestibule will be mighty handy if I got fogged in for a couple days on Kodiak while goat hunting. I was hesitant about getting a non freestanding tent, but am now full comfortable with the idea as I was still able to set this thing up on frozen gravel.
I was also confused/skeptical on how the heck the interior of the tent is erected at the same as the fly, but for me its just one of those things you have to see to understand. (Visual learning I guess..HAHA) Anyways, that is another nice feature about this tent.
Will be taking this out on a 22 mile snowshoeing trip with the wife up to Bomber glacier later next week for a real test. Anyway no where near the quality of the Moontrail.com pics of this tent but here are a few I took after setting it up.



The vestibule is enormous and the living space is only slightly smaller and less headroom than my Big Agnes Emerald Mountain SL3 (for sale in the swap & sell btw...shameless plug I know). Anyways, I can see that vestibule will be mighty handy if I got fogged in for a couple days on Kodiak while goat hunting. I was hesitant about getting a non freestanding tent, but am now full comfortable with the idea as I was still able to set this thing up on frozen gravel.
I was also confused/skeptical on how the heck the interior of the tent is erected at the same as the fly, but for me its just one of those things you have to see to understand. (Visual learning I guess..HAHA) Anyways, that is another nice feature about this tent.
Will be taking this out on a 22 mile snowshoeing trip with the wife up to Bomber glacier later next week for a real test. Anyway no where near the quality of the Moontrail.com pics of this tent but here are a few I took after setting it up.




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