![]() I looked it over for mold, but didn’t find any, so I set it up in the front yard to air out. When I first got the tent, I noticed a bad odor - I traded a used tent for a used tent. On this Tarptent, the “beak” is actually a partial-coverage vestibule.) Tarptent Setup Either explain what it is in your marketing or drop it. It comes from tarp aficionados, and Ray Jardine made it popular when he wrote about making them in his book, The PCT Hiker’s Handbook, now known as Trail Life or The Ray-Way Tarp Book, but it sounds ridiculous and outside the UL crowd, it’s not well-known. ( Just a note: I know that the term “beak” is a popular one in the Ultralight crowd - I’ve used it myself. In addition to the tent and poles, it includes three Easton aluminum stakes and a narrow but long stuff sack. The floor is 84 inches long, although without using the bathtub floor, it expands to 92 inches. It has 42 inches of headroom dead center on the front pole. It offers 30 to 37 square feet of floor space with an extra 8.5 square feet of storage space under the “beak”. Reflective spectra cord guylines included.Catenary ridgelines for wind, sag, and storms.Quick drying - inside and out in minutes.Fast setup - 2 minutes from sack to pitched.Front beak shields rain, provides gear storage.Abundant netting for views, airflow, and insect resistance bug proof when zipped up.Hybrid bathtub floor - clip or unclip floor walls for splash, space, views, and airflow.But this shelter does offer many features, including: Tarptent doesn’t offer a specific product description of the Cloudburst 2 other than “Two and a half pounds for 2 people.” Maybe its strategy combines minimal language with the lightweight. ![]() By fall 2010, I finally strung enough painful days and fitful nights together to offer an opinion. In May 2009, I suffered two injuries that have kept me from doing any substantial paddling trips. That’s why it took so long for me to write a review for the Tarptent Cloudburst 2. I usually like to spend 30 nights in a tent or under a tarp before I write a review about it. I need to see how it performs in hot humid weather, rain, cold, wind and more before I really know how to rate it. Tim Smith, the owner and founder of Jack Mountain Bushcraft School, says “It takes four nights to own a shelter.” But, I think it takes slightly longer to really know how a shelter performs. For various reasons, I didn’t like the Double Rainbow, but I wanted to try another Tarptent before I wrote off the category. In early 2009, I traded a Tarptent Double Rainbow for a Cloudburst 2.
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