Durston X-Mid Pro 2 arrived :)

[Boone B]

I’ve got a 1P silpoly and having botched (user, uh, balance error) one attempt of setting up in rain and changing…

My next attempt I would unhook the inner tent in the corner you’re in (the long cord line to stake point), shove the inner out the way, do your changing then reattach everything and crawl inside.   I believe the pro version still has that sort of attachment despite the inner being attached to the fly up top.  Ground below probably gets a little wetter, but hopefully should be fine.  Depends a bit on the order you unpack/inflate sleep gear vs change.

[Ben C]

Looks great. I’m eyeing one of these. I’m 6’4″ and a little concerned about size. I sleep on an Xlite. Any input?

[Dan @ Durston Gear]

The X-Mid Pro has a floor length of 90″ and of that 84″ is “useable” (at least 12″ height) that’s on the longer side of things for a tent. That is 7′ of useable length. If you’re sleeping straight with a sleeping bag etc it would still be a bit tight except if you are using it solo the X-Mid Pro 2 is truly spacious for a tall hiker because not only can you sleep on a diagonal but the parallelogram shape floor gives on diagonal that is very long. So that easily works at 6’4″. It’s quite reasonable at 7’0″ and one of the longest tents out there when used like this.

[Ben C]

Thanks, Dan.  I assumed it would be fine solo, but my wife will do short trips with me too. Sounds like a good fit.

[Diane Pinkers]

Has anyone had their X-mid Pro 2 out, with 2 people in it? I own a Z-packs Duplex as well, and it is much wider. I set up the X-mid 2 today, put a wide sleeping pad in it-no way could you get two in there! Placing a wide sleeping pad and a regular width sleeping pad, the pads are touching both the door zipper and each other. I think it will make a dandy one person, but Teo is stretching it.

[Dan @ Durston Gear]

We have some people using them with two wide pads, but it’s needs to be wide tapered pads so it only bulges out the floor in the middle and not at the ends (where the corner struts more strictly define the width). It can be done with two such wide pads (some people on the Durston Gearheads facebook group have shared some photos), but its goal is to be a superlight tent so the room isn’t as luxurious as the regular X-Mid 2. As you say, two regular pads or one regular/one wide will fit better.

I also note the floor width will vary depending on how high you pitch the tent, since a higher pitch lifts up the sides of the floor into the sidewalls, and vice versa.

[Diane Pinkers]

Dan, was the tent designed to have the two people both sleep with the heads at one end,  or to sleep head-to-foot? Sleeping with both heads at one end got me with tent wall right in my face, but the picture on your web page seems to show two pads with the heads at the same end. Also, the positioning of the pockets seems to assume head-to-foot.

[Diane Pinkers]

Ok, I just saw the FAQ page on the Pro-2. Being on the “downhill” side of the tent, I was in pretty close contact with the walls. Not ideal.

I love how much easier it is to get in and out of than the Zpacks Duplex,  but next time, depending on the campsite,  I’m going to try the head to toe configuration,  and see if I like it better.

[Dan @ Durston Gear]

Hi Diane,

If you’re getting the tent wall close to your face on the lower side, it could be that (1) the pitch isn’t tight enough and the wall is hanging or, or (2) you should slide down away from this corner to leave it as a place for gear.

As the FAQ explains, the headroom is different on each side where one side has a lot of extra headroom while the other side is more normal. This ‘lower’ side has less head room but still should be reasonable to sleep the same way.  When you’re laying down, the head clearance even on the lower side should still be more than the Duplex, like this:

One of the keys here is that the X-Mid Pro 2 is longer inside the fly than the Duplex, so you shouldn’t be centering yourself in the tent but rather sliding down to leave the low corner as a place for gear. When you do that it puts both people in a very normal side by side position (because the floor is parallelogram shaped) and head clearance should be reasonable on that side, like this:

With that said, the headroom on the other side is really generous so when two people share the tent it is best to put the taller person on the side with the extra room. You can sleep opposite so both people get the extra room, but we don’t think this is needed unless both people are quite tall.

[Terran Terran]

Like the SS ?

Two opposing sleeping pads or 1 short person with their head down by your shoulders. It’s a squeeze either way.

Never mind the hype. It’s a light tent with only so much room. After all we’re not car camping.

 

[Ken Larson]

Dan planning to produce a demo film showing how to use attach the various Groundsheets?

[Dan @ Durston Gear]

“1 short person with their head down by your shoulders.”
If the person on the lower side slides down (away from the low corner) to leave that corner for gear, that puts the two people side by side. So that person wouldn’t have their head down by the other persons shoulders. It’s like this:

“…planning to produce a demo film showing how to use attach the various Groundsheets?”
I am planning to produce a new pitching video that shows more detail on the pitch and how to get it really solid for high winds, but it is still 1-2 months away. For the groundsheets though, they just clip to the floor corners of the floor (Pro tents) or to the 4 corners of the fly (regular tents) so the process is pretty simple and I’m not sure if a video is needed.

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