This tent is exactly what I was looking for. I needed a lightweight hot tent for winter camping in the northern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This is not a beginner outdoors-person tent. This is a traditional wall tent design and it takes a long time to set up. Setting up with one or two friends is recommended. I set it up by myself today and it took about 45 minutes, with me taking my time to set the guy lines properly. You can set it up without a hammock and without trees to support it if you have two large study poles(see photos). Use poles at the corners as well to support the wall tent shape. This tent does not come with instructions. When properly set up, I think this tent will hold up just fine to tough winter weather. I'm happy to answer questions on Instagram @fox_up_north Update: Used it for winter camping on Lake Superior. Held up to some serious wind and snow! Invest time in setting it up and it can really take rough weather. Also, it made a nice spacious and warm gathering space for me, my fiance and another couple(who had their own small tent) for an evening meal and dice games.

From the start I was pleased with this shelter. It weighed in at 3 lbs. 2 oz. with tent stakes and cords. That's not at all "ultralight" - my ZPacks Hexamid Twin which is roughly comparable in size weighs just 1 lb. 8 oz. including cords and stakes - but it's plenty light enough for normal backpacking. Everything appears well-made, with a good weight fabric not too heavy but not too thin either. I've been tarp camping since the 70s and generally prefer it to using a tent. I had a Baker-design tent like this in the 90s which I loved. This is a great shelter - you get the best of both worlds, a tent that can be really "buttoned down" when you need it, but with the openness (almost) of a tarp. It's really easy to set up, no fancy poles joined together in strange ways, no threading poles through sleeves - you just need two end poles, either branches or trekking poles work, and lots of stakes! First just stake the rectangular floor down with 4 stakes, easy-peasy. Go from there with more stakes, putting your poles (you supply) at each end. Supplied are 12 good-quality lightweight aluminum triangular stakes - but you really need 13, or even 15 if you use stakes to pull out the back wall and you don't have any trees or branches to tie your cords to. I chose to replace the stakes with shepherd-crook stakes, just a personal preference. You need 4 stakes for the rectangular floor, 2 stakes one for each pole cord at the ends, 3 stakes for the pull-out ventilation flap in the back, 2 stakes for the triangular flaps one on each side in the front, and then 2 stakes for the "porch" flap poles, if you can't tie the porch corners to a tree, 13 total. I will carry 15 with it, just in case I need 2 more stakes for the cords that pull out the back wall. You don't need to pull out the back wall but you'll have more room inside if you do. That's a LOT of stakes - but on the other hand, there is no better feeling on a stormy and windy night than knowing you are in an inherently strong and stable A-frame type tent that is securely battened down, and you can laugh at the storm! Although I would not tempt fate if I were you. I figured I'd have to replace the cord - but I was pleasantly surprised to find I could use what was sent, good quality olive-drab cord with light-reflective specks in it, and with included line-locs that are small, lightweight and work perfectly. The cord I got was in 100" lengths ( 8 1/3 feet) and not 10 feet, but that is good enough, I don't think I'll need longer lengths. I used two trekking pole cups attached at each apex of the tent at the end, with the cord attached to the cups and with the poles adjusted to 130 cm which is my normal length I can just slip my trekking poles right in. When the tent is all buttoned up you have a small vestibule for storage in the front, outside the tent proper but still covered and protected from the rain, 7' x 1.5' for 10.5 square feet. You can adjust the height of the front porch to be low or high. Using no poles at all you can get it down to about 24" in the front which gives you plenty of protection. Protection from insects should be OK with the bug screen that can open completely up via dual zippers with pulls inside and out and be rolled up and secured at the top - but the square holes are about 1/16" in size, a bit bigger than any other bug netting I have on any tent. Overall this is a real bargain. I would buy this again in a heartbeat if I needed to.