yeah pretty much ultralight

By Jorge Hurtado Ranked #301 - 3-Season Tents August 31, 2009

The tent itself is very very light, true. The thing that let me down is that most of the days i used it it gave me a good dose of water in the early morning :( I used it so sleep in the desert in northern México and it was great... but in the cloud-forest it was BAD. There is condensation and while I really thought it was just me.. i tried sleeping in different parts of the forest so I would get a more accurate reading of what really is the rating on this tent. I slept in the cloud forest in:

-A cave ( no bueno)
-Near a stream ( not that bad )
-Near a small artificial lake ( there was little ventilation but the condensation was still manageable)
- inside the cloud forest but in an open field (condensation was a layer of droplets some of them fell on my body and woke me up. )
-inside thick forest lowlands (good amount of condensation)
-" " " " highlands (condesation was kept to a minimum- a small layer of little droplets is my definition of minimum)

So if anything this is a super light tent... i had a thermarest which packed to TWICE the size of the actual tent so that made me happy. The assembly is super easy I don't know what's up with the other reviewers. I pretty much take what one guy said on those P90X infomercials that piss me off so much... anyways this tukrish guy says: "if you define easy as sitting in chair, then is not easy" hahahahhaha. So all of u haters of the bd hilight- don't be sitting in chairs. aight??

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