we are here with the marmot tungsten 2p tent.this is an excellent tent for two campers or backpackers who are looking for a tentthat will be great both for just weekend trips at the campsite to backpacking to anythingelse you can throw at it. this is a relatively light weight tent. it is a great value forthe price and it has got a lot of features that give a lot of interior space, a lot ofcomfort inside and we will take a closer look. the pole design of this tent is really easyto use and really smart. there’s innovations here that give you a lot of livability insidethe tent. and it is technically two poles. so there is your main poles for the main bodyof the tent. these cross over each other. it is techni-cally a hubbed pole design soit is considered one pole, but they are really
easy to just compact down and for the smallpack size of this tent. there is also this brow pole right here. it is a different color.and that just goes right on the ridge of this tent, so you get more livability, more spaceabove your head. so it makes these walls of the tent a lot more vertical. so instead ofa typical a-frame style, you have got more vertical walls and, hence, you have more livability. on the corners of these cross poles here youhave pre bent knees on the poles, which is something i don’t see in a lot of tents,but it really creates a lot more space right above your head and down at your feet whenyou are laying down or when you are in the tent. and, you know, if you have the traditionalstyle poles that cuts down on a lot of space
in the corners of your tent and it is usuallykind of an unusable space. but with the design marmot uses on these pre bent knees on thepoles, specific clip placement on each of the poles here, it really gives a lot morespace. these are high quality aluminum dac poles.so you get a lot of durability there. there are two doors and two vestibules with thistent, so you have either two access points into the tent or i like to use one door askind of the back door, store all my gear there and then the front as the access point inand out. but these are really big d shaped doors. you can see how wide that opens, reallyeasy in and out. and as i kind of sit in the tent, you can roll back this door with somereally easy toggles here. so if you want a
lot of ventilation in and out, again, reallybig d shaped doors and the peak height on the tent is really nice for the style of tent,for a camping backpacking tent. you have got some interior pockets here to store gear.you have a nice clip at the top. you can hang a light here or other gear that you want tostore inside the tent. but all in all the livability in here is really nice. you have got some privacy here with this kindof taffeta material that comes up about half way and then you have a lot of really breathablemesh in through the top so on hot summer days you have a lot of ventilation with this tent. i am putting the rain fly on and this is areally durable completely waterproof seam
taped rain fly. it is 68 d polyester materialso you do have a lot of durability there in that ma-terial and, like i said, fully seamtaped. it is a full coverage rain fly, which just means that all corners of the rain flycome down around the tent down to the ground. so in a storm it could... you know, the windblowing if it is a bad storm, you are definitely covered there. like i said before, you have two vestibulesand you do have a vent on one vestibule of this rain fly. and on the other side you don’thave an extra vent, but you can definitely just pull the two way zipper on the rain flydown a little bit from the top. you have a real-ly nice storm flap over top of the zipperso water can’t get in. so if you are experiencing
a light rain and you do need to just ventthe tent a little bit, you can pull that zipper down half way or just a little bit and havea lot of breathability, a lot of ventilation in the tent. there are guide out points on this tent andthe tent doesn’t come with all of the necessary stakes and the guide out lines for every singleguide out point on this tent, but it definitely gives you enough to pitch the tent in a reallygood way. some of the guide out points here are actuallyreflective. so if you are using your head-lamp to find your tent at night it is going toreflect back to you. it is a really nice feature there.
orienting the rain fly is really easy. i findthat is one of the hardest things about setting up a tent is knowing which side goes wherewhen you finally put that rain fly on. but with marmot you have color coded clips. soon the front here this one just has green webbing on both sides of the clip for therain fly. the other side of the tent there are two little red webbing pieces. so allyou have to do once you have the body of the tent set up you get the rain fly and findthose two little red pieces and the two little red webbing loops and just connect those onthat side. so super easy set up. the doors here are also really easy to getin and out of. i have this side of the vestibule kind of rolled back on this side. i can rollthis side back as well. you can do the same
thing on the other side, so if you want alot of ventilation, a cross breeze in your tent, you can do that as well. with all of the features, the durable materialsand the full coverage protection and all those little details that marmot has put into thistent, you have got the perfect camping and backpacking tent for two campers all underfive pounds. it is the marmot tungsten 2p tent.