[Mmmm...Jerky]

I have this tent! Best part is the weight, this thing weighs next to nothing! Worst part is getting in and out through the end. You pretty much have to army crawl in and out, and maneuver around the trekking pole. The head room is not great, especially with the mosquito hut in. It is not a bathtub floor in the bug hut. The beak is effective and can be placed easily in the night if the rain starts, no need to take anything down. Setup is kind of fiddly, you need six stake out points minimum. Once it is up and adjusted and guy outs are placed it holds up well to blustery rain. I had a very wet and windy night at marmot lake in ONP a couple years ago and it held up nicely, I was soaked but I was able to dry out under it.

[Randito]

With floorless shelters, site selection is more critical than with a tent. By site selection, I don't just mean choosing the most favorable tent pad in an area, but choosing stopping points that are more sheltered , especially when weather is grumpy. A hybrid approach I like is sewing a wide swath of no-see-um netting along the bottom edge of a shaped tarp. When weather is fair , you can adjust trekking pole heights and guylines to allow ventilation, but not bugs. When it's windy, you can stake it flush to the ground and pile duff/dirt onto the netting to reduce wind blowing in under the edge. When it's being raining all day and it comes time to setup camp, I look for sites under trees where there is a thick later of duff , so I'm not setting up my pad on mud, only damp needles.

[Nancyann]

Agreed about setting up to avoid mud, I do the same when at all possible. Thanks for the review, Mmmm…Jerky, very interesting! My bug hut does have a bathtub, I think they recently began making them like that after numerous complaints.