Light 1.5p/2P Tent Help!

Do you use trekking poles? Welcome, and hold on.

Yes I use trekking poles, am in the market for good solid aluminum pair, paranoid about carbon fiber. Also updated original post to say that.

Most tentmakers couldn't care less about tall hikers. I'm 6'5" and love my Tarptent Rainbow: http://www.tarptent.com/rainbow.html

It's about as spacious as one-person tents come, weighs 2lb, 2oz. My only complaint is you can't leave the door open during a calm rain. Mine's on its sixth season and has never got me wet through either sustained rains or short-lived torrents, other than a tiny bit of misting as hard rains knock condensation off. Can move around a bit in high winds, but survives them.

[Edited to correct weight.]

My brother is 6'4" and 260 and really liked my Tarptent Stratospire 1 (which is really a 1.5 person tent) – he fit in there quite nicely.

hmm I am seeing a trend here, everyone seems to really love the tarp tents tho I am not keen on the SilNylon cause of the stretching.

Also how is the seam sealing and taping on these tents? I have never dont that before and really did not want to but for the weight I want it seems thats an inevitability.

For $20 Henry will do the seam sealing for you.

I hate to tell you, but you either will get silnylon for <$300 and it will stretch a bit, or you'll go cuben fiber for >$500 and it won't stretch. Those are your choices…..

What is Cuben Fiber, I keep seeing it but am not really sure what it is? I am also probably worrying about it a bit more than I should.

I also still would like to know about seam sealing. Seems like something I should know or do.

Not sure if you are in the market for a double walled tent, but I have an almost new one for sale here:

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=93500&skip_to_post=795079#795079

I'm 6'3" and I have plenty of room in this tent.

Ben

Ohh thats very tempting Ben, but I think thats heavier than I wanted to go…. its almost 4 pounds.
I will think about. Give me something compelling to snatch it up?

I actually own the Marmot Firefly 2P.

If you're concerned about silnylon stretching, you can make (or buy) self-tensioning guy lines to alleviate or resolve the issue.

If you're interested in making them, this thread (https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php?3731-Techniques-For-Make-Your-Own-Shock-Cord-Tarp-Tensioners) at hammockforums has at least two methods. My preferred method is the third one posted by "headchange4u", i.e. post #3 in that thread.

Michael,
Seam sealing is something that some (like me) find very easy to do and others hate doing. (just like cooking,washing the car, mowing the lawn…)
TT can do it for you for $30 or you could look at the TT video clip on how to do it.
(under Products at http://www.tarptent.com/momentdw.html)
As for silnylon sagging, well this is been going on for twenty years. It puts some people off , others can manage quite well.
All TT shelters have Line Locks (tensioning devices) where it matters so if you set up your shelter taut and then just before you go to sleep you pull it taut again, it will still be taut in the morning.
This is my Contrail In Nepal after a rainy and cold night.
It was already raining the night before when I pulled the tent taut. I did not touch the tent during the night nor in the morning :

"All TT shelters have Line Locks (tensioning devices) where it matters so if you set up your shelter taut and then just before you go to sleep you pull it taut again, it will still be taut in the morning."

Exactly what I do. Takes all of 20 seconds and I've never awakened to a droopy tent.

Thanks and good picture to show your point.

The Big Sky Chinook 1P is 91" long.

Most of their tents are 84"

An 84" long floor can have more usable space than one that is 90" long .
This is how :

(the white rope has the ends about 90" apart)
the photo is only meant to illustrate the difference between linear and cubic measurement or if you prefer perpendicular or in this case (Moment inner) outward sloping walls versus the more common inward sloping walls.
All current TT shelters will fit a 6'3" person on top of a mat without having the face or feet against the wall.
BTW, if repositioned I would fit inside the white line but I am 5'8".
No I am not floating on air, just on top of a thick mat.

Tell me about the big sky tens, I have not heard of them yet?