Massdrop Announces Dan Durston X Mid Tent: 2 People, 2 hiking poles, 28 oz, $199
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I ordered these (image below, link here https://tinyurl.com/y3xlaoa5), but haven’t gotten to try them yet. I’m planning to taking the X-Mid to the park on Sunday and doing some experimenting, I can report back soon.
Has anyone else tried these yet?
An alternative to the handle-down trekking pole setup on the X-Mid 1P tent:
While awaiting the delivery of my X-Mid 1P, I came up with a way to use my trekking poles in the “handle up” position. I prefer not to place my handles in the dirt/mud or where animals could chew on them for the salt.
The poles are a new offering from Black Diamond, their Distance Carbon AR (Accessory Ready) trekking poles that adjust from 105 to 125 cm (41″ to 49″). Each pole has a little pop off cap in the top of the handle that covers an almost 2 in. deep socket (designed for the cross-member of their newly-released Distance Shelter). There is no price increase over their Distance Carbon FLZ Trekking Poles ($190), and only a slight weight increase of 28g (1 oz.).
I simply sanded a couple of 1/2″ oak dowels to the appropriate diameter (0.48) and cut them about an inch longer than the socket is deep. Then I trimmed about 3/8″ of the end of each dowel to approximate the I.D. of the tent’s grommets and rounded the tip slightly.
Photo of dowels in pole handle sockets:
Place the dowels, shouldered end up, in the pole sockets, then insert the poles through the vents and place the smaller diameter tip into the grommet. Finally, use the FlickLock lever to adjust each pole’s length to suit the terrain. The weight of my two dowels is 8g (0.3 oz.), and they are easily carried in the tent stake bag.
House Tyvek (95g) and 1.1 oz silnylon (72 g) footprints (80″ x 25″) with sewn double hems, corner loops, and tieouts. Also sewn grosgrain loops and mini cord locks with 2 mm lines on all 4 fly side tieout loops.X-Mid 2P announced on drop.com
https://drop.com/talk/24067/a-tent-built-for-two
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<span class=””>We Heard You! The Massdrop X Dan Durston X-MID 1P Tent has been by far the most successful outdoor product in Drop’s history. No other product has seen engagement even close to the levels we saw on the 1P tent. Over 5K of you have hit the request button, 2K comments have been made in the discussion, and so far 45 reviews have hit with an average of 4.9 out of 5 stars. But there was one thing that many of you have been asking for that up until today we could not give you: a two-person version! We teamed up with Dan Durston again and got to work. We kept the basic design, two big vestibules, and the need for only two trekking poles. With the 2P, however, we made the inner wider so two people can comfortably sleep next to each other. A footprint of 47” x 92” offers enough space and guarantees a great night sleep even for the tallest of hikers. With the new, roomier inner, we updated quite a few construction details like the position of the vents on the fly and the pockets on the inside to make them easier to access. We did quite a few prototypes, evaluated all kinds of detail solutions, like magnets as fasteners for doors and vents, but dismissed the idea after testing it in the field. We went out and tested the tent next to glaciers in British Columbia and in the deserts of the southwestern United States. We endured rain, snow, wind and even a sandstorm, and the prototypes held up well. We also sent it to a lab to get the materials tested and tortured to ensure it passed the most rigorous of tests. </span>
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<span class=””> Now we are ready to share the Drop X-Mid 2P Tent with you and hope you are as excited as we are. Stay tuned for more on this project. “</span>
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