Trekker Tent 2 Trekking Pole Tent Lightweight 2 Person Backpacking Tent for Hiking Waterproof Quick Setup 3-Season Ultralight Tent for Camping Hiking Hunting River Country Products

I have both the Trekker 1.0 and 2.0. Written instructions were kind of vague, but once I watched a YouTube video it was no sweat.... Set it up in the California nasty rains we have been having... NO LEAKS !! Very pleased with the weight, easy set up once I saw how and a price that cannot be beat !!. A great product I will recommend to my bushcraft friends and students

I received this as a birthday gift after eying it for a while and finally got out for a 40 mile trek. It's an excellent value and I'll use it for many trips to come. I highly recommend as an entry-level trekking pole tent. Because I already owned poles, I'm using the tent only (my wife bought the one with poles but we gifted them separately).Pros: inexpensive, lightweight (for the price), withstands wind, rain, and hail (personal experience), and larger than expected inside.Suggested improvements: add 1-2 more mesh pockets inside, add reflectors to the guidelines so people don't trip at night, and expand the front door area to create a vestibule. Also, pink/red stakes might be great for most people, but 10% of men are colorblind, so yellow or blue would be much better. I always have to be careful to not lose stakes on the ground.

So, let's get this out of the way up-front: yes, it's basically a pup tent, very similar to the one with a cub scout logo I had 40 years ago (and it was an old design even then!)Here are some comments in no particular order:1) Price. Need I say more?2) Weight. Need I say more?3) While I haven't taken this tent out yet (I just set it up in the back yard to make sure I could) I've got many years of experience with tents and I have no concerns about taking it on a fall trip in Virginia mountains. Everything is well stitched, the seems appear to be taped, and it's of adequate thickness.4) It's a classic. There's a reason that pup tents have been around for (at least) 150 years that I know of. They are simple and effective, and they will meet your needs.5) I'm an unusually large guy (6'3" 300+ lbs, pretending that's more muscle than fat). It was long enough for me (most "ultralight" tents are not.) It WAS a bit delicate getting in because of the pole in the doorway, but that could be moved aside temporarily if necessary. Once I was inside it was plenty roomy. However, please note that as per usual, if you want to get two people in this tent they had better be VERY friendly. This would be a great tend for camping with a romantic interest in the winter.6) The stakes were the usual aluminum "backpacking" style stakes, but they were definitely better than the bent wire stakes we had on backpacking tents back in the day. (If you need something more substantial you could of course get your own.) They went into the sandy loam of my backyard without difficult and without a hammer, but I would expect this to be significantly harder in rocky ground.7) It took my under ten minutes to setup and tear down the first time I did so. This thing is VERY easy to setup.8) I'll offer one mildly negative comment: the tent has four guy-lines. Guy-lines can be a pain in the butt, but they're pretty essential to this design. They were also coiled in a neat bundle in the package, but about a minute of the 10 minutes it took me to setup and tear down was figuring out how to untie the note on the bundle. They do have a plastic "tensioner" (that may not be the right word, but it's basically a plastic thing to make it easy to put tension on the line.) Not a huge downside, and far outweighed (see what I did there) by the weight and price, but something worth knowing.9) The ventilation seemed fine for the brief moment I was in there, but please note that this tent has only one door and no "back window". If you want ventilation, you'll definitely want to open up the side flaps by running those guy lines. That said, I think it might be over ventilated for winter use, so it's definitely a three season deal.I'll hopefully be taking it out next weekend; once I've take it out I'll update the review as appropriate.

Strongly suspect that picture in ad is staged. As you can see, it looks like someone has put extra poles inside the tent since there is a bulge outside which shouldn't be there. I found this tent weighed closer to 3 lbs, 4 oz. The stakes make it hard to use on rocky ground, unlike an external pole dome tent. I ended up using large rocks at the corners. It also sags in the middle, and it is hard to get it taught so I question how waterproof it would be.

I bought this tent for my first backpacking trip three years ago. It has many miles and many nights under its belt now with no failures. Super easy set up.Condensation is not an issue as long as you sleep solo and keep the door open!In rainy conditions, pitch the doors out to make a little vestibule area.