The rain fly (the piece of fabric that goes over top of the tent- yellow in this case), needs to cover the entire tent for it keep you dry in the rain. Rain rarely falls straight down, so tents with rain fly's like this one that only cover the top of the tent are about as useful as an umbrella. An umbrella keeps your head dry, but your feet are going to be wet.

Just got back from my first trip with the 1310 the directions tell you all you need to know. only hard part are the blue steel poles which require a little strengh on initial set up, other wise great quality tent and i got it for $180 at bass pro.

When dealing with a tent this size, it's nice to at last have 1 other person to help with setup. otherwise the set up isn't that difficult on this type of tent. Have someone with you and set up the tent in your yard or nearby park, this way you can familiarize yourself with the setup and prevent you from looking stupid later on.

based on my experience, if it says 10 person, they are optimal...that is, it will hold ten without gears, luggage, refrigerator, what have you..that is, like canned sardines. I always find it helpful to divide the number in half. In this case, the ten man tent becomes five and always have plenty of room to maneuver and store your gear and stuff...why not store it outside, you say? that is fine except when it rain...
With a wife (ex) and 3 kids, I find the ten person tent barely enuf to satisfy us. Hope this help you... have fun

It's a ten-person tent. Of course it is.

It has a removable room divider. So you can have two medium size rooms or one large room

One.

has a removable divider. so 2 or 1

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The outlets are 12v DC. They are basicaly, cigarette lighter power ports like you have in your car. You could run a 12v extension cable and plug it into your car lighter for power if you wanted

You have to buy the Power Pak (http://www.backcountry.com/store/ERK0071/Eureka-E-Power-Pak.html), and they outlets on the Power Pak are AC.

Can't say for sure, but most likely in the spring. Check back regularly. But most likely it will be back in stock again next spring to summer.

It has 9 poles...6 verticals and 3 horizontals...I got confused a bit cuz of dome tents I had in the past...with a dome tent, you can have a pole (fiberglass) running from one corner, up and over and down into another corner...this counts as one pole...with the 1310, the pole is not continous...the vertical pole stops at the eave and a different pole run across the roof...the "2" that you mention refers to types of poles, one type of pole for vertical and the other type of pole for horizontal..

yes, it definitely comes with the rain fly.It's not much of a fly but it does cover the top part of the tent.