I've spent a handful of nights in the tut now. I have family that has the seek outside 8 man tepee and kifaru sawtooth and spent some time in both of those.
Initial impressions are that it is good. I've dabbled in sewing myself and that is likely the only reason but some of the stitching along the seam looks like the operator was on facebook with one hand and sewing with the other.
The mid level guy outs. Awesome to keep the walls more vertical. But not sure why they didn't go with a tensioner anchored to the tent. Like a lin loc or similar. I may add something or just continue to use the tautline hitch there.
If I could change one thing I would have made each side a foot longer. I know it's a tradeoff in weight and space needed to pitch etc but with 2 guys and a stuff another foot would be nice.
Here are a couple pics. The one on the inside kinda shows the snow on outside. It did fine with the snowload and also in the yellow grass it withstoof some sustained winds and 2 gusts that I thought might break the pole. It actually bent two of the stakes.
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