4/11/2023 0 Comments Slingfin portal 2![]() ![]() Oriented with its head into the wind, so that the vestibule “wings” keep the wind off the doors, there’s a solid pocket of still air along the rest of the tent body. There’s no vents in the fly, but the vestibules can be partially or fully opened for extra airflow while still keeping wind and rain out. The entire body of the tent is mesh and is separated from the fly most of the way around by a 6-inch gap. It’s a simple, clever solution that creates effective wind breaks for the doors and large, covered storage areas. Stretched over the poles is an expansive, to-the-ground fly that’s much wider at the head than it is at the foot, creating those vestibules and sheltering them and the doors from wind and weather. ![]() Tension front to rear is what combines with the lateral poles to hold the thing up. The 2Lite is a non-freestanding design, meaning you have to stake it fore and aft to hold it up. Internally, these reach to tensioned cable that spans the head of the tent (it doesn’t reduce head room), adding further structure. Setting it up, you clip the perimeter of the tent’s body to the poles, as normal, then use H-clips to further add tension. Martin’s right, this tent gets scary tight. We give the user a dry entry, big useable vestibule and a genuine 2P tent in a lightweight package that’s really small.” “With the 2Lite, we tried to make a tiny, tiny package with short poles so you could fit them anywhere, while actually having something livable for two people. If you compare our tent that will really sleep two people to one of their’s that will do the same, we’re a lot more competitive.” A lot of other companies, their two-person tents are really 1.5-person tents and their three-persons are really two-persons. ![]() “Yeah, one might have 28 square feet, but because of the angles on the end, the corners become virtually useless for anything but having your flashlight roll there. “Other tent makers game the specs,” Martin responds when we ask him to compare it to the Big Agnes models. That makes it much, much stronger than any other super lightweight tent in the category.” It makes it a little bit scarier to set up, because it’s so highly tensioned, but when you put that last clip on, you are like ‘Man, that’s a tight tent!’ It’s basically internally guyed-out without having to have strings stretching out from your tent. “We internally tensioned it to add strength. What innovation has Martin brought to its design? The 2Lite Trek employs a rudimentary web truss to secure your trekking poles, but this regular 2Lite we’re testing here does without. It allows you to pitch the tent in high winds without the body causing trouble the poles often get most stressed while pitching.” “It locks the poles in place and gets rid of bias stretch in the body. “The web truss enables you to set up the frame of the tent before the body or the fly is added,” Martin explains. The 2Lite’s poles fold up into bundle less than a foot in length, making them very easy to pack. It’s like the space of the Copper Spur in the package of the Fly Creek. Those doors are incredibly large, reaching from the tent’s roof all the way to its foot.Īt 28 square feet with a 41-inch head height, the floor area may only sound equivalent to those two Big Agnes tents, but unlike them, its walls are nearly vertical, leading to a livable interior for two. Even zipped open, the large rain fly shields the tent’s two D-shaped doors from wind and rain. ![]() It’s that it’s a sub-3lbs 2P tent that’s as livable as heavier alternatives. The real genius of the 2Lite isn’t just that it’s sub-3lbs 2P tent. The 2Lite Trek weighs just 2lbs, 10.1oz and includes shorter poles for both the tent’s head and foot. Sling fin also makes a version of the 2Lite that uses trekking poles for support. In apples-to-apples comparison, that makes it just 14oz heavier than the lightest widely-available 2P tent - the $US550 Big Agnes Fly Creek 2 Platinum we tested last Christmas - and 4oz lighter than our previous favourite 2P backpacking tent, the $US400 Big Agnes Copper Spur UL2.Īll three of those tents set up with included poles. Packed in its drawcord stuff sack, with a full compliment of aluminium stakes and guy lines, the entire package weighs in at just 2lbs, 14.1oz. The 2Lite is a two-person, three-season, ultralight backpacking tent that, unlike other products which meet that description, will comfortably sleep two people. We took one up the highest mountain in the lower 48.ĪU Editor’s Note: The Slingfin 2Lite isn’t available in Australia, but it looks cool, right? - Cam What Is It? They’re as light as anything else out there, but much stronger, much more livable and, believe it or not, cheaper too. A new American company that makes the strongest tents on Everest has just launched this new line for backpackers. ![]()
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