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How do you fold your Tatptent SS2?

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PostedJul 16, 2014 at 12:39 am

I have a TT SS2 and I cannot figure out a nice way to fold and roll it for storage in the sack. I own tons of tents and most of them are quite straight forward, but this thing is an insane chaos of billowing silnylon. Or do you 'stuff' it?

Anyone feel like a pro with this model? There must be tons of owners of them out there.

PostedJul 16, 2014 at 1:53 am

These photos are of a different tent but the idea is the same.
Grab hold of one of the Pitch Lock ends ((the corner with the built in struts) and drag that along the ground so that your tent stretches out like this :

tent folding preparation
and NOT like this:
Folding tent 2
now fold the fabric inwards so that it matches the strut width and start rolling the tent up from one end to the other.
Doing it this way it will not balloon up because the air can escape

Here is a video that has two similar tents folded up that way :

Matthew H BPL Member
PostedJul 16, 2014 at 2:14 am

Hmm I've never really had a problem. I just fold it three ways which takes it down to the size of the stuff sack roughly. Put the hard struts folded in line with the way I'm rolling and go for it.

PostedJul 16, 2014 at 8:17 am

I've got a Moment DW too, and fold-roll it as described above. Quite straight forward. When I do the same with the SS2 the extra peaks in the fly and the suspended floor/interior just seem to turn into unruly appendages that don't want to lay flat or migrate to one side so I get more of a cone than a roll (even when I do a tri-fold and bring them to the middle). I did a decent job last night. I guess practice makes perfect.

PostedJul 16, 2014 at 1:38 pm

In the field I always stuff all my shelters. faster and easier in the field. For short trips I don't even bring a stuff sack, just stuff the tent/shelter into the pack.

I do fold them loosely and store them in mesh sacks at home.

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