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Big Agnes Flying Diamond 8 Tent: 8-Person 4-Season
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The Big Agnes Flying Diamond 8 Tent provides the room you need to sleep eight people or serves as a meeting and meal room for the entire expedition. Full-on winter-ready construction handles nasty mountain storms with high winds and lots of snow, so you don’t have stuff flying away or a tent turning into a kite. This Big Agnes tent gives you enough room to stand up in the middle and includes a spacious vestibule so you can get in and out without soaking everything.
- Polyurethane-coated fly and floor keep you and your gear dry when the rains come
- Tent's floor and fly seams are taped to help eliminate rain penetration during spring and summer storms
- High ceiling (72 inches) and double door design provide lots of room for you and your three companions
- One large front vestibule and one smaller rear vestibule store packs, boots, and pets while you bed down inside
- Vestibules can be closed down completely, rolled up, or pitched out to use as a shaded porch
- DAC aluminum poles, press-fit connectors, and clips make this tent easy to assemble day or night, rain or shine
- All Big Agnes tents feature poles made with DAC's Green Anodizing process, which eliminates the chemical polishing stage, reduces the need for hazardous chemicals, and recycles water throughout the rinsing process
- Breathable mesh and ripstop polyester walls fight condensation
- Mesh storage pockets hold your headlamp and a map after you and your companion finish planning the next day's trail assault
- Reflective guy line makes it easier to find your tent after late-night bathroom trips
- Mesh storage pockets hold your headlamp and a map after you finish planning the next day's hike to the summit
Bottom Line: Big and burly.
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Great Tent
By: Brian Reyman
July 1, 2011
A great family tent. Tons of room, solid construction and lots of features. Only downside? As you can see, it's very long. It has a tough time fitting on some campground tent pads.
By: Michael L
May 24, 2011
Matt, thank you very much for your videos. They were the key to me deciding on the FD (and convincing the wife), although we went with the 6. We must have watched both of your videos 8 or 9 times. It more then holds myself, the wife, and our 8 month old, 76 pound German Shepherd puppy in her large kennel (she gets the bump-out room.). The geodesic structural design with aluminum poles rival any other manufacturer as far as sturdiness, as far as I'm concerned. I love the reflective guy lines & zipper strings. With my headlamp at night, I can spot my tent from almost 1/4 mile away. It sounds strange to say, but I can't wait to hit an industrail strength rain storm & really try it out. I appreciate your efforts.
2 Comments Last Comment: May 19, 2011 by: Brian Reyman
By: Brian Reyman
May 19, 2011
The 8 definitely requires a LARGE spot. We have a family of 6, so the 8-man was more necessary. The 8 felt monstrous when just three of us went camping. I'd recommend the 6-man version for your situation for the reasons you mentioned (slightly lighter and will fit better in smaller sites).
By: Vicki Patrick
March 17, 2010
Thanks for the video. I like the tent, but am deciding between the 6 and the 8. It will mostly just be two or us (but we like to be comfortable!)...Occasionally 1 or 2 might join us. We thought the 6 might be better bc it'd be lighter and might fit on a smaller site better. Have you found the 8 to be so large as to have trouble finding a big, flat space? Any thoughts?
I agree with you Mike Miller,that it's not a hardcore 4 season tent. I wouldn't want to depend on it like my North Face VE-25 (which has been used in expeditions in the Artic and Antartica), but the Flying Diamond will hold up very well, and hold in heat, in the unexpected snow/sleet/hail storms that I've faced in Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite (that was a nightime, 6 inch snow storm over a Memorial Day weekend), or the snow/sleet/hail storm I faced in Yellowstone last August (photo attached), or the snow storm/blizzard on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon year before last in early Oct., at 8,300'. Structurally it'll hold up, but there's too much uncoverable mesh in the tent to hold in body heat at temperatures below 10 degrees F., but I can attest that it's done very well at 25 degrees. I haven't tried it at temps near 10 degrees F yet (and I don't intend to), so that part is just my opinion.
By: Michael L
May 25, 2011
Awesome Family Tent
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Michael L
May 24, 2011
I originally cut my camping teeth on The North Face backpacking tents (VE-23 & VE-25), so Ive come to expect my tents to be beyond dependable, and hold up to some pretty hairy unexpected weather conditions like driving rain, high winds, sleet, hail and snow (or any combinations of the above). Normal camping for us ranges between 4,000 to 8,400, and at this point in our life, the backpacking tents are history (we want room, comfort, and bigger doors). I love the Flying Diamond 6s aluminum poles, and they do form an exceptionally strong geodesic structure, evidenced by our 2nd trip out with it ..50+ mph winds (all day & night) in Death Valley N.P., and it never flinched. (For the first time in my life, Im looking forward to some really nasty weather conditions on a camping trip. Im dying to take this thing out for a real test drive!) Its very roomy, evidenced by the wife & I sleeping in the main room with gear, while the back room is occupied by our 8 month old, 76 pound German Shepherd puppy inside her large kennel (she gets the back room), and we still had room to spare. The ventilation is great with the 2 doors and the air vents built into the fly. Its great for sleeping without the fly on .theres nothing like a celestial light show to lull you to sleep at night. Theres lots of mesh pockets, and the gear loft tabs in the roof provide spots to hang LED lights for interior lighting. With the reflective guy lines, Im no longer tripping over them in the dark ..great feature! The only drawback I found was in the front door zipper .it takes a little patience to get it around the bottom corner. We love this tent. Weve definitely become Big Agnes fans, and in my opinion, structurally Big Agnes rivals The North Face, but without the heavy duty, industrial strength pricing.
Big Agnes Flying Diamond on the Playa
By: Alex Gross
September 21, 2009
The Big Agnes Flying Diamond lasted on the playa for 6 days. No major issues/problems/breakdowns.
2 Comments Last Comment: May 17, 2011 by: Brian Reyman
By: Brian Reyman
May 17, 2011
Two double air mattresses would fit inside this tent.
By: Scott Hassler
February 18, 2010
were you actually able to put two air mattresses inside?
Change me.
Big Agnes Flying Diamond 8 Tent
It is everything we where looking for in a tent, roomy and tall. (This is one large tent.) We will be using it on a 3+ week long car camping trip from more...
Perfect Family Tent
We'd previously owned one of the cheaper 6-man family tents. The quality was so-so (it started leaking/falling apart a bit after just a few seasons more...
- Material:
- [fly] polyester ripstop, PU coating (1500mm); [floor] polyester, PU coating (1500mm); [walls] polyester ripstop, polyester mesh
- Canopy:
- double wall
- Freestanding:
- yes
- Doors:
- 2
- Number of Vestibules:
- 1
- Poles:
- 5
- Pole Material:
- DAC Pressfit
- Pole Attachment:
- clip and sleeve
- Floor Space:
- 112 sq ft
- Floor Dimensions:
- [length] 175 in; [widest] 115 in; [narrowest] 84 in
- Interior Height:
- 72 in
- Vestibule Space:
- 35 sq ft
- Packed Size:
- 27 x 16 x 8 in
- Seams:
- [fly & floor] fully taped
- Ventilation:
- adjustable vents, mesh walls
- Fast-pitch Option:
- no
- Trail Weight:
- 22 lb 6 oz
- Recommended Use:
- base camp, car camping, family camping
- Manufacturer Warranty:
- lifetime

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