This is a single skin 4 season shelter for two. It is a lovely simple A frame design with dual entrances, snow skirts and vents. It's yellow and grey 30d silnylon and feels exceptionally well made.
I had originally planned to try my hand at making a nest/inner for this tent to allow it to be used as either single or double skinned and had purchased the materials from the states to make one. The more I thought about it the more I wanted a professional finish to the nest (I think I'll take on a smaller task first). So I enlisted the help of hitchhiker from TerraRosaGear again (he made my solo nest for the SL3). I shipped the tent and materials off to him last week and my new nest was back in under a week (all whilst he's prepping for a big trip to Canada trekking).
The nest is made to cope with both summer and winter. The door panels are yellow 30d silnylon to help with spindrift (as the vents are located there) and the side panels are no see um mesh. The floor is 70d black silnylon. There are zips at both ends to make use of dual vestibules.
The tents specs are 290cm long by 150cm wide at the ends and 180cm wide in it's centre. The nest is 200cm long by 145cm wide. This gives each person 45cm as vestibule space at either end or gear at one end, cooking and enter/exit at the other.
The nest weighs just over 500g and together they weigh 1.25kg on my crappy luggage scales (so give or take a bit
Either way it feels nice and light. The bag for the twin sisters is cavernous and both fit in the bag together. So my plan is when we finally get a nice day (or if my laryngitis clears by sat morning and I can go do the Coastal walk) I'm going to tie off the inner to the corners of the tent so they become integral pitch. This will work best for crap weather and will mean the tent takes about a minute to pitch A couple a shots (sorry phone quality pitched in lounge room...anyone in Sydney will understand why
I hope you like my inventive use of kids toys/lounge room furniture and clothes lines in my pitch
A massive thanks once again to hitchhiking and his awesome work. An infield review and photos to follow.
Cheers
Mic
