I do recommend a ground cloth of some sort though. The painters plastic has always worked fine for my purposes. I don't recall ever having seen a footprint made specifically for the tent, but I wouldn't have spent the extra money to buy one either. I made it so it's a couple inches shorter than the tent and fits completely under it. It's just, when you have to spend time in the tent during a rain-fall, don't expect to have much ventilation, it can get to be a bit suffocating, especially if there is more than two of you in the tent.įor a ground cloth I use painters plastic I cut to fit. I've never met a tent that doesn't eventually begin to leak a little, so I think only having a half cup of water in the tent is pretty impressive. The rain-fly does do its job, I have been in some torrential downpours and maybe soaked up a half cup of water at most afterwards.
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So, when it does begin to rain, although the tent doesn't really leak much, you have to zip the windows almost completely up. The coverage of the rain-fly is a bit small. The ventilation leads to one of my only complaints with this tent, which actually has to do with the rain-fly. There is a mesh opening in the ceiling, as well as windows on each end, the doors have a mesh area with another window directly beside them that opens up. With the divider in place there is room enough in each side to place a queen size air mattress, as well as some gear.
I have never actually used the divider on a camping trip, but have put it up a time or two just to check it out. Speaking of, the divider does have a zipper in it, so you can open the divider up during the day if you wish. You don't have to enter through one side and then go through the divider. I like that once in place that the front door gives access to one side, and the rear door gives access to the other side. The tent does come with a divider that can be tied up using the dog bone/loop design, so it installs in seconds.
The large size does add to the weight of this tent, but I imagine most everyone who uses this tent will be car camping and not having to pack it very far, so weight isn't much of an issue. I have even survived a strong thunderstorm or two, and the poles held up find during some fairly strong winds. In the years I have owned it and many times I've set this tent up I haven't had one splinter or break yet. They are of a larger diameter and thicker material than the average fiberglass pole.
Having said that, I am ok with the fiberglass poles that come with this tent. I'm not a huge fan of fiberglass poles, I've broken my fair share of them. However, stake out and set up is an easy job, and will take less than 10 minutes. This tent did come with the yellow plastic tent stakes, after the first time out with those I wound up purchasing some heavier duty aluminum stakes. I can do it by myself, but this is a job probably better done by two people to keep from damaging the fiberglass poles. The set up of the tent isn't all that bad. Realistically, I think four people would be plenty, but you could manage six ok if you had somewhere else to store the gear. This is a large 12' x 10' tent that is made to sleep eight people (manufacturers claim).
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