Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Early Winters ltd. Winterlight 311
This is possibly the craziest tent I've seen in awhile. It's a 4 season Gore-Tex non-freestanding tent. The pole design is just nuts, really really lightweight fiberglass type poles with a metal section that attaches it in the middle. Wish I had photos of that but I don't. Anyway a 4-season non-freestanding doesn't seem smart to me, but whatever.
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Laugh all you want, this was the best tent I have ever owned.
ReplyDeleteIt shed snow, did not condense, was light and tall enough for 2 big guys.
The top Gore-tex pieces eventually wore out from sunlight.
I wish I still had it.
Hello jalepeno4, I have an Early Winters winterlight in great shape, but my father lost the poles. If you still have your poles, I would be happy to buy them. Thank you, Carl
ReplyDeleteGREAT Tent.
ReplyDeleteWinterlight -- "light", not bomb proof!
Wind can blow a freestanding tent into the nearest lake, over nearest cliff, or just downhill. Seen it happen. I like this semi-freestanding design. I love this particular tent. The Marmot Taku is *maybe* better (Taku was released a year? later). I love the green color (I don't like tents that shout: "here I am -- you are NOT alone in this basin /lake /area").
Using it when I got 4 feet of powder overnight -- bailed out the back door and cleared the front. Best three season tent ever. Not horrible for deep winter. Three stakes set it up just fine, never needed more in 10 years of use. (OK, twice more would have been nice, but I didn't want to go out and do it :-()
I have a yellow and orange in excellent condition. I think that I was the first person to set it up.
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