Influencer II
I'm pretty happy with the two person Coleman with dark room technology. Fairly easy to set up and for under 100 dollars it performed well. It fit a cot and gear with room to spare and held up well to a few thunderstorms in the Smokey mtn.So after our last get together with our OB group here in Colorado (June Jam), my wife and I have decided to change a few things in our camping set up. One of those things is our tent. We wanted something that goes up and. Tears down quickly. Also smaller footprint too. Considered several types even the Gazzele as well. It is apealling in many ways, but the cost, weight and space just doesn't make sense for us. We settled for a tent with similar characteristics too the tent you purchased, the only difference is the rain fly is normal and no extra window. Ours is a Coleman 4 person dome tent with dark room technology. ($85) We were a little apprehensive with our purchase at first because searching for reviews there was only two that we came across, and they weren't bad reviews but weren't entirely good reviews either. But there was about 75 reviews of the smaller 2-person version that were very good, that's why we went ahead and bought it. (I will probably do a review once we have used it enough to give a good impression of it.)
I did get the chance too try it out last Saturday night with my daughter, (for Fathers day she gave me one of the greatest gifts one could give, Time, her work is very demanding right now but she knew I want to hike a 14-er so we went to the Mnt Antero trail drove to a campsite and woke up early in the morning to set out for our hike) I didn't do a pre-trip set-up, just took it out of the bag and went for it. It worked out great. Pretty stoked about it.
There are so many other things we are revamping with our gear to save set-up time, weight and room, that I can't list them all. But it is really neat to have her get excited about getting out. She isn't going to go on every adventure but if I plan things right she will go a couple times a summer.