#EUREKA TETRAGON 1210 TENT UPGRADE#
If you wish to go backpacking, I recommend that you upgrade to a better tent. Yes, I would recommend this tent for people who camp on occasion and in the sunshine. Nevertheless, for the 5 years of service it gave me as a scout, it held up well and earned the nickname "The Beetle" due to the low, round profile. My new tent weighs in at only two pounds 13 ounces. At over five pounds, this tent's a clunker. I ditched this tent for an Eureka! Spitfire 1 because of the great weight difference. Also, the fly doesn't quite fit onto the tent frame, a little too small. The tent holds up semi-well in the rain, but the corners of the tent let in water where the fly leaks water on it. Yet the tent still has some costly drawbacks for people that camp in the wet or backpack on a frequent basis like I do. It held up in some of the most adverse environments I have ever seen. Well, I can't complain about the tent a lot. I just wish the rain fly had the ability to close completely like newer models do. It snowed overnight and the tent handled it just fine. This one up Slide Mountain in the Adirondack Mountains of NY. Have used this tent on several backpacking trips. Otherwise we were warm and dry that night. There was only one little spot where the rain got in and I blame that on myself. I actually used the extra tie-down points and the tent held out fine all night. The weather was rainy, cold and windy with gusts up to 30mph. Here is the tent in comparison to a Coleman 3-man and another 1-man backpacking tent. It is not the lightest tent out there but it certainly would be fine on a backpacking trip. I have used this tent on a few winter backpacking trips and have done OK.
Instead the opening is cut out so it is always exposing the door to the elements. The one issue I have with the rainfly is that it does not completely close off the entrance to make a protected vestibule. I've been in a few rainstorms and have gotten minimal leakage. The fly does have its seams taped but I have always erred on the side of caution and I sealed them on top of the tape that was there. There is a color coded tab on the fly and the tent so you know where to line up the two. The rainfly is easily attached by spreading it out over the top of the tent and aligning the entrances. There is a small gear loft that clips to the sides up at the top and two hanging pockets that are permanently attached to the sides. But the tent has lots of storage inside and for my 5'4" frame it is plenty of headroom in side. The bathtub style floor is thin and not really waterproofed so make sure you have a ground cloth for under the tent. Once that is done you stake out the corners of the tent. Then you work your way down each pole and clip in the 'plastic' clips along the tent seams to each pole. Once you have all four corners attached you can stand up the poles and where they cross you use an existing loop on the top of the tent to fasten the tent to the poles.
You lay out the tent on the ground, put the poles across the tent in an X pattern and then connect the ends to the metal pins at the bottom corner tabs. The tent is a freestanding design with two fiberglass shock-corded poles. I usually go camping with the Boy Scouts and this tent has become my go-to tent for backpacking trips, and general campouts of a few days. In all that this tent has held up like a champ. During that time I have camped out using this tent in all sorts of weather-from raging rain and wind to single digit temps, to the heat of the summer. I purchased this tent back in 2012 (it was the 2011 version).
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