Mtn Hardwear 4 season tents

By obadiahjenkins2337633 Ranked #116 - 4-Season Tents January 15, 2011

The Trango 4 by Mtn Hardwear is a mainstay for expeditionary mountain trips. This tent can be found everywhere from the base-camps in the Himalaya to advanced camp at 17200' on Denali. This sturdy and dependable tent will fight the good fight as long as you can. With a well designed footprint, strong poles, and enough interior space and pockets to lose half your equipment, unless the storm of the century comes to visit you will be safe and happy inside this iconic and essential piece of equipment. With a small investment of time, effort, and seam sealer, this double walled tent will last you through many a hard and epic adventure. For storms with strong winds, guying the tent properly will make the difference between a comfortable nights rest and a flap-athon that will wake up the neighbors. To save weight, i've cut out the mesh doors and designed clip-on guy lines of the appropriate length that easily double as gear hangars on sunny days. Make sure you loosen the fly in the sunny mornings in anticipation of thermal heating of your tent which can actually rip the seams of the shell apart on glaciers where the temperature fluctuation can be extreme. Speaking of extremes, the only time this tent has ever let me down was during a terrible blow in the inner Chugach range. The tent withstood foot after foot of snow being blown in, on, and around her with 100+mph winds. Her undoing finally came with a bang when a gust drove my 2' thick storm walls through the vestibule breaking several poles and compromising my camps, and tents aerodynamic security. Rebuilding the wall in the storm proved impossible so the only other alternative was to dig in. By cutting the floor of the tent diagonally, we dug beneath the tent, flinging the snow back up into the shelter and out the back door. Once a cave was established with an exit other than our tent sunroof, the tent was fully collapsed over the cave the covered with drifts quickly. After the storm, we emerged to a very alien world. Over 9' of the fluffy stuff had fallen with amazing winds driving it from Prince William Sound. We were able to quickly mend and repair everything that was wrong with our tent including broken poles, stuck and torn zippers, and tears in the vestibule fabric as well as our escape hatch in the bottom of the tent. With a simple repair kit including a speed stitcher, extra zipper pulls, and seam sealer, we were able to turn what looked like a complete loss into a complete save. Our expedition lasted another 10 days with nothing but comfortable living in our mended shelter. Not bad considering we clocked sustained winds that night of over 120mph! Good Tent!

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