It is different to the current one generally on sale at the moment, I got it in September 2024 in the UK. From Ali Express. Below I’m considering one person use. Coming from the Lanshan 2 it’s all change:
poles for a start! (seem to work fine for me)
tightly strung inner (much better in the wind than the flappy inner Lanshan),
easy pitch (as long as its not too blowy) with head-end coded red; footprint loop then inner and fly connected (see pic) so all three parts are attached and the whole thing can be moved once up.
weight 1850g all in, over three bags that all clip together (including fairly useless outer storage triangle {borrowed from Nemo} ),
inner pocket, above head (pretty floppy with your phone in, so stuff could fall out – it’s just not deep enough),
small pocket at the foot end (but I haven’t been down there to check it out!),
small vestibules (NB I’m coming from the Lanshan, so I don’t have much to compare with when it comes to freestanding tents) – it would be more risky putting the fire on in there in bad weather compared to the ‘now-seeming-voluminous’ Lanshan vestibule.
inner zips all work one handed – a big plus! (but they don’t quite meet perfectly)
doorways – well, two zips on each side means either entry is kind of too small but you can do it – though your back will get covered in moisture when fly is wet; both zips undone and there is a big old gap (see pic),
oh, and the cut out at the head end was new for me (the first night was shocking as climactically there was some condensation on the inner head end and I thought the worst, blaming the design; of course every other night has been great, with only very light to zero condensation on the fly and none on the inner head end, so I’m becoming a convert)
finally, the centre spreader does not overhang the inner enough so you already know what’s going to happen in the rain (the left and right hand zippers end up further in horizontally than the inner (approx 30cm) so a definite for vertical rain entry so more of a good weather tent! The zips are not long enough to only partially open and crawl in when its raining. Even with only one zip fully open it’s a crawl, and a wet back from rubbing the top of the open zip inverted V shape. Sounds like this also happens with the fancier tents also (link)
The does no one post top-down images of tents with fly open so that the ‘vertical-rain-hitting-the-inner’ problem can be seen?
Pitched on a very thin, dry layer of ‘soil’ over granite so the pegs only go in so far.
fly material loosens when wet and tightens when hot/sunny (like the Lanshan) so I have been careful to slacken off guys and corner tensioners during the day.
I first tried here with no soil, just rock, but the fly was almost was blown away at this point with the inner and poles taking off (hence my footprint on the cut out above – once I got most of the poles out!). My fault not the tent’s.
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