My Favorite Gear List:
Tent:
Sleeping Bag:
Sleeping Mattress:
Camp chair:
Cookpot:
FlipFuel Canister device:
Folding Knife:
Water Filter:
First Aid Kit:
Hiking Shoes:
Trowel:
Hyperlite Camera Case:
Trekking Poles:
Clothing Organizer:
Hiking Belt:
Hiking Pants:
Hiking Underwear:
Hiking Gloves:
Sun Hoody:
Down Jacket:
Rain Jacket:
The Durston X-Mid Pro is one of the lightest, most efficient ultralight backpacking tents available. I was astounded by it when I first got it. But now that I’ve had ten months of heavy use, what do I think? For you gear heads and ounce counters, this tent is all over the trails.
Thanks for putting this together and nice to hear you’re largely liking the tent. As you mention, it’s certainly not a tent for everyone. It’s our superlight version, so for less ultralight focused hikers our regular version that is more affordable and doublewall is often a better fit.
With regard to pitching the tent, I recently put together a new pitching guide that is a lot more helpful than the old one. It has a ton of great tips that I think even experienced users would find helpful. In explains how to get a tighter pitch in general so you can get more space without the side panel guylines, and at 8:00 it explains how to get a tight pitch on uneven ground:
https://youtu.be/fOJ4BKIoKGs?si=31Py713rz3TpTf72&t=484
That video also has some other cool tricks like porch mode (near the end) which shows how to prop up one door as a porch for more room and venting in rain conditions.
Thanks again,
Dan
If you’re not pitching it on level ground most tents will struggle. It’s not the fault of the tent it’s your poor choice of site.
So what if you can’t get stakes in the ground?! Cool tent, but $700 for a piece of fabric is crazy.
Wonder why this tent got so much hype when the Sierra High Route 1 came out first with pretty much same design
If the only reason you would not want this is because you don’t use two poles; start. I was a one poler and went to two just for this tent. Holy cat shit bat man. I don’t care how good your knees are, if you love them and want to preserve them (and you hike elevation), become a two poler. You’ll never go back. (All I have is mountains where I live ….so…there’s that).