BEST TENT I EVER HAD!!!

By Marina B. Ranked #457 - 3-Season Tents May 22, 2011

I logged onto Backcountry today to buy a new Tephra because the Tephra I have had for about ten years (YES! TEN!) was stolen this afternoon out of my back yard where my boyfriend set it up to dry after he borrowed it for a rafting trip. Sadly, I see this tent is now no longer made.

That tent didn't just sit in my garage for ten years, it went on trips with me at least once a month on off-seasons, more frequently in the on-season, and I even lived in it during several summers while doing field work. It withstood some of the gnarliest wet conditions i've been in and never needed to be resealed, those same seals didn't crack or fail when I subjected them to the heat of Death Valley in the late spring or southern Arizona in the summer and fall. The tent went with me when I hiked Whitney and down into the Grand Canyon, we enjoyed the view on Cedar Mesa, and was light enough to take backpacking in Mexico and Africa.

Ten years with that tent and it did everything I asked it to!

I particularly like the narrow design on this tent - it's great for one person and a backpack. I prefer one small door over two large doors (which seems to be the way most of North Face's tents are made now) - if it's a backpacking tent, the one door is ounces lighter, and makes it easier for the tent to fit places other big tents, or even tents with a rounder footprint/rain fly, might not.

GREAT JOB NORTHFACE, I'll be buying another!

View Details: The North Face Tephra 22 Tent 2-Person 3-Season

Helpful Votes: 0 Yes