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Alpine Tents - Advice please 17-Feb-2008 At 9:29:56 PM Andrew_M

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Why so down on Macpac tents?The EV2 looks looks pretty funky but since you are asking specifically about a tent for NZ maybe it's not the best option. I've got a few tents and the minaret is definitely a great little tent for NZ conditions.

My minaret comes in at a shade over 2kg which is a couple of hundred grams less than the quoted weight and makes it about the same as the EV2. True, it's not too roomy and the vestibule isn't huge, but it's really solid. Particularly the rugged seam-sealed tub floor...a lot of Seppo tents apparently aren't seam sealed and as someone else mentioned the floors can be pretty damn flimsy. Another really big plus for the minaret is the modular way that you can pitch it, particularly the ability to hang the inner off the inside of the fly which means that you can pack the whole thing up in pounding west coast rain and keep everything including the inner dry, only packing the sodden fly at the last minute.

Also, the MH EV2 looks like a single skin design(?) Don't forget that while single skin tents are great for cold dry conditions, like the high altitude expds Mr Ed would be using it for, but a lot of the time in NZ you can just be sodden for days on end. A double wall tent works OK under these conditions...if you can't find a good bivy rock that is...