Thread: Naturehike Tents

Originally Posted by Cliff

Really?

How often have you seen this?

Yeap same here have personally been there when one has imploded on itself due to wind it collapsed and all the poles bent and tore it, at the time I had my cheapo salewa set up right beside it and it was fine

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Yeap same here have personally been there when one has imploded on itself due to wind it collapsed and all the poles bent and tore it, at the time I had my cheapo salewa set up right beside it and it was fine

Right so they blew apart in the wind, thought you meant from your first comment that they just broke during setup or leaked from new. Makes you wonder how windy it was at the time, (lightweight 3 season tent) were the guy lines set out and tensioned correctly, were the pole ferrules all snugged up.

I've had a few tents with bent poles over the years (pushing them too hard in wind they weren't designed to withstand) but "touch wood" nothing with snapped poles.

Originally Posted by Cliff

Right so they blew apart in the wind, thought you meant from your first comment that they just broke during setup or leaked from new. Makes you wonder how windy it was at the time, (lightweight 3 season tent) were the guy lines set out and tensioned correctly, were the pole ferrules all snugged up.

I've had a few tents with bent poles over the years (pushing them too hard in wind they weren't designed to withstand) but "touch wood" nothing with snapped poles.

I guess they were all set up correctly, it seems to be a common theme with MSRs that they don't stand up to much wind compared to some other tents of a similar design so there is possibly better choices for open tops hunting, I'm pretty sure @BRADS had a carbon reflex that shit itself in the wind also?
The quasssar that @Tahr has are a bloody good tent, spent a week stuck up on the tops in Westland in a blowing gale that wouldn't let up and a couple feet of snow in one and it would have to be the most stable tent I have come across, you couldn't have thrown much worse at it and we felt safe in it the entire time

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

I guess they were all set up correctly, it seems to be a common theme with MSRs that they don't stand up to much wind compared to some other tents of a similar design so there is possibly better choices for open tops hunting, I'm pretty sure @BRADS had a carbon reflex that shit itself in the wind also?
The quasssar that @Tahr has are a bloody good tent, spent a week stuck up on the tops in Westland in a blowing gale that wouldn't let up and a couple feet of snow in one and it would have to be the most stable tent I have come across, you couldn't have thrown much worse at it and we felt safe in it the entire time

My Terra Nova Quasar in the Kawekas'

Unfortunately they cost about $1k nowadays.

Originally Posted by Tahr

My Terra Nova Quasar in the Kawekas'

Unfortunately they cost about $1k nowadays.

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Thats looks very cosy and nice spot to put head down !!!!
Nice Tent too