Seek outside Cimmaron

[charvey9]

Straight out of the box with stuff sacks, stakes, and stove jack it came in at 47.2oz. With my custom pole from Ruta Locura and guy lines it came in at 51.5oz.



Place is like a castle compared to the solo and duo shelters I've been crawling in the past few years.

 

[luke moffat]

Just got mine seam sealed and added guylines to all guy points with tensioners and swapped the mini ground hogs with full sized ones. After seam sealing, adding guylines and going to the larger heavier ground hog stakes the final weight was 50.5 oz in the supplied stuff sack. This is a Cimmaron without a stove jack.

Sorry I didn't get a out of the box weight before.

 

[bbrown]

Luke clear some PMs...

 

[luke moffat]

Done

 

[5MilesBack]

Hey Luke, why no stove jack? Do you have other options for stove use instead?

 

[MT_Wyatt]

Got it with the nest. The nest is different than the one pictured on the Seek Outside store website. It's all mesh walls. I think it will be great for warm weather. The floor isn't super slick like silnylon.

Is that the regular 2 person nest? Looks like an awesome setup with the Cimmaron. I just got the BT2, really happy with the Seek Outside build quality and design.

 

[dreamingbig]

Hey Luke, why no stove jack? Do you have other options for stove use instead?

I am sure he has multiple. They have a sawtooth that I know of. Thread on here about it and their mods to it.

 

[Becca]

We picked up the Cimmaron as a designated lightweight shelter for trips where we want to be lighter (like longer backpack trips or through hikes) or where the majority of the trip is above tree line with nothing to burn. It will replace the SL5 we used for the last 5+ years, which finally blew up during a storm on Kodiak last fall. Impressed with the interior space of the Cimmaron over the SL5, as well as the two doors. Looking forward to getting into the field with it in a couple weeks for some backpacking and sheep scouting.

For occasions where we can spare the weight and have things to burn, the sawtooth with double nest will work quite nicely. We also have a Nemo pentalite that I sewed a jack into a few years ago, as well as an SL8 with a stove jack for trips where we want to accomodate 4 or more people or just have tons of interior space... That doesn't even take into account our floored shelters but we spend a fair number of nights in tents, and have found that different shelters fit our needs for different trips, terrain and seasons. Also often take friends along. Not sure if we will end up culling a few tents now that we have added the Cimmaron and the sawtooth to our stable, but it's always nice to have options

 

[GibsonKuenzi]

Got it with the nest. The nest is different than the one pictured on the Seek Outside store website. It's all mesh walls. I think it will be great for warm weather. The floor isn't super slick like silnylon. Haven't weighed it yet. My wife and I will fit in the nest just fine.

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The Cimarron looks great, and I'm very happy with it from my first impressions. A good fit for what I'll be using it for, I hope. Don't want to say too much until we've used it some, though. Setup is simple - the video on youtube about the setup for the Cimarron was helpful.[/QUOTE]

Which nest is that?

 

[luke moffat]

One of the best things I noticed about the Cimmaron I liked WAY more than my SL-5 right out of the gate is how smooth the zippers and and work one handed. Anyone that has owned or used an SL-5 knows what I am taking about when I say you gotta "help" it along to zip it closed quite often. The zippers on the Cimmaron are silky smooth.

 

[buckeyearcher]

For those that have the Cimmaron, do you feel it would be overkill to use as a solo shelter? I'm looking to buy my first shelter and looking hard at the SO BT-2 and Cimmaron. I plan on using the shelter solo this year but could be using it for two in the future. I'm 6'3" so I was leaning towards the Cimmaron for the taller height. I am also not sure how close I would be two hitting the walls in the BT-2 when lying down.

 

[7mag.]

Just set the Cimmaron up today for the first time. I think it's going to be a sweet shelter for two with a stove.

 

[wea5el]

Just got mine seam sealed and added guylines to all guy points with tensioners and swapped the mini ground hogs with full sized ones. After seam sealing, adding guylines and going to the larger heavier ground hog stakes the final weight was 50.5 oz in the supplied stuff sack. This is a Cimmaron without a stove jack.

A new member here and the Cimmaron has caught my eye. Is the 50.0 oz weight, the tent body only without the nest? Does it include the pole, or is it trekking pole use?

I'm currently using a Tarptent Stratoshere 2 and looking to enter the world of a hot tent. I'm currently running about 44 oz trail weight when using trekking poles as supports. I like that the Cimmaron has similar layout/features but more room and flexibility. Would probably do the nest to keep the significant other happy. Thanks.

 

[luke moffat]

50 oz is just the cimmaron a lot of guy line and tenionsers and 14 full size ground hog stakes after being seam sealed in the stuff sack it came with. A nest is gonna add another 1-1.25 pounds for a 2 person nest but worth it IMO over two ultralight bivies if going with the significant other IME.

 

[Clarktar]

Lukey, what tensioners are you using with the trip-tease?

 

[luke moffat]

I am not smart enough to tie the tensioner knot so I just use standard tensioners instead of what most folks I think are using that special knot. Tensioners are not super heavy and worth it for me for their ease of use.

 

[aron]

One of the best things I noticed about the Cimmaron I liked WAY more than my SL-5 right out of the gate is how smooth the zippers and and work one handed. Anyone that has owned or used an SL-5 knows what I am taking about when I say you gotta "help" it along to zip it closed quite often. The zippers on the Cimmaron are silky smooth.

This isn't helping... trying to talk myself out of putting my sl5 up for sale to fund the Cimmaron. I know the zipper concern. Sucks trying to reach in the vestibule when it's been raining to help it.

 

[Clarktar]

Well, cimarron and 2p nest ordered. Can't wait to overnight with the baby and wife in the next few weeks. Olympic National park here we come.

 

[tipsntails7]

50 oz is just the cimmaron a lot of guy line and tenionsers and 14 full size ground hog stakes after being seam sealed in the stuff sack it came with. A nest is gonna add another 1-1.25 pounds for a 2 person nest but worth it IMO over two ultralight bivies if going with the significant other IME.

Luke do you need all 14 groundhogs for normal use or is that your "Kodiak" setup?

 

[luke moffat]

12 will guy out every point once. I always carry two extras for breakages as well. Really you can set this thing up with 4, but 8 is more betta. 12 would be really battening down the hatches.