Roberto Amato

Sealing seams is long, painful and uncertain, silicone included insufficient. A tent should be sold ready. Jan 2007, Alps, 2000 m, warm (+ 2C / 35,6F), one person, windows open: tent not transpiring, inside walls wet with moisture, would have been frost at normal cold temperatures in place. At morning tent is damp/frozen, difficult to take down and pack. Not suitable for severe mountain environments. Poles should have been outside, not inside the tent! The tent must be open to insert/remove the poles: if it snows with wind, the tent is soon full of snow, annoying, could be dangerous. Needs more bottom staking points or snow-band. Very bad, only quality is the light weight, but...