Sierra Designs Convert 2-Person Tent
Product Details
- Size: 2 Person
- Color: Yellow/Charcoal
- Brand: Sierra Designs
- Model: 00147112
- Released on: 2012-01-01
- Dimensions: 6.80 pounds
Features
- Trail Weight: 5 lb 5oz
- Packed Weight: 6 lb 12 oz
- Interior Area: 29 Square Feet
- Vestibule Area: 8.5 Square Feet
- Dimensions: 85" x 54" x 45"
Product Description
Sierra Designs Convert 2 uses a Ball Cap(TM) attachment at the ridge pole, an external pole with clips for the vestibule, and single-wall construction for light-and-fast winter adventures. *Drizone single wall construction. *External pitch with continuous, capped pole sleeves create a fast and convenient pole set up that can be completed without the need to move around the tent, an important feature for setting up the tent on tight ledges. *Superseal Floor(TM) combines benefits of catenary and bathtub floors. Raised, taped perimeter seam provides guaranteed waterproofness and maintains a tighter pitch with a better wind line to prevent flapping. *Jake's Corner(TM) eliminates pole rotation that can lead to pole failure in extreme conditions. Lightweight, removable, patented, and exclusive to Sierra Designs. *Air Lift Vents allows air to circulate throughout the tent while the angled design with mesh backing doesn't allow rain or snow in. All vents can be accessed from inside the tent. *Snowflap on vestibule. *PVC-free seam tape. *Reflective door trim and guy outs. *Hanging pockets. *Sew-free window. *Locking Pole Tips keeps pole tips locked in grommet for faster, easier setup. *Ball Cap connector(tm) eliminates the tip and grommet at the end of ridge poles. *SD Swift Clip allows the tent and vestibule to be staked out before attaching the body to the pole structure. Floor Material: 70D Nylon, 5000mm Body Material: Drizone, 40D Nylon WPB Vestibule Fly Material: 40D Nylon, 1500mm Poles: DAC Featherlite NSL
Customer Reviews
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Trailblazer
Six nights only I spent in this tent during the summer, but since virtually no one else has written a review on it, it is time for someone to weigh in on the Sierra Designs Convert 2. My experience was sufficient for me to have something to say. I used it in the Rockies at 2800 meters and 3100 meters during July of 09, which means relatively low humidity and cool, but not cold temperatures. My first impressions of this tent are excellent, and I am already thrilled I bought it.The tent is roomy enough for two men 1.85 meters and 75 kilos each. If you are taller than 1.9 meters, then this tent is going to start feeling a tad short for you. There is a little extra shoulder room at the head (near the door) for the necessities that you need; the tent tapers toward the feet to save weight. There are a couple good internal hanging mesh pockets, and additional fabric loops on the inside, which certainly could be used for a larger gear loft or two, but which can be used for internal guylines to strengthen the tent in extreme conditions--something I have never heard of before, but a great idea.Set up was a little tricky the first couple times, as you need to figure out which poles do what, and how to thread the two main poles so as to raise the canopy. I don't remember if this tent is advertised as freestanding, however, the tent without the vestibule is freestanding: it can be set up without stakes, and is taunt. If you are backpacking solo however, during set up, it is really a help to stake down the tent first, thread the poles all the way in the sleeves, and then with arms spread wide and a pole in each hand, to push on both poles simultaneously from the head of the tent in order to raise the canopy.The ridge pole which holds open the venting "fly" (which I call the "minifly") on the very top of the tent was extremely difficult to remove at first: it was simply strung too tightly. No amount of snow which might build up on the minifly would ever collapse that pole. With time however, I have found that ridge pole has become easier to remove and now in 2012, its tension is just right. (It seems to me that Sierra Designs could have shaved another ounce by creating that pole at only half its present diameter. It is possible that Sierra Designs corrected this problem in 2010; I cannot tell from their website. They did make some changes.)I had to stare at the instructions and the Jake's Corners themselves for a minute or two before I figured out how they worked, but they would seem to me to be an ingenious and significant contribution to tent strength. Inside the tent, I locked one corner with the JC and then pulled inward on that pole, exerting a lot downward pressure on it, and the Jake's Corner was not about to let that pole deflect. I was really surprised at how firm it was. Reminded me of JC's story of the house built upon the rock: when came the storm it stood firm.Outside the tent there are also numerous (seven at least) additional guyline loops which, like the Jake's, are unnecessary in normal conditions, but which would allow you to really anchor this baby down in the strongest winds. Sierra Designs also makes an internal guy kit, which if you also used, along with the JCs, you would have nothing less than a fortress. Strength is one of this tent's fortes.The Convert 2 has no rainfly: it is a single wall tent. As for myself, I was concerned about ventilation and condensation. So my first night in, experimentally, I zipped up the door all the way, and zipped shut the two, covered, ceiling vents (which have both mesh and fabric closures, which are separate), to put the breathability of the Drizone material to the test. About the only conditions in which someone might want to do this would be at about 40° below in an all out effort to keep heat inside the tent. (In regards to keeping heat inside the tent, I sense that the Drizone material would do this better than the average tent with standard nylon walls, yet I might be wrong as it is only a single wall.) I awoke at about 4am and did sense a big need for some fresh air, but surprisingly there was no condensation inside the tent, even with two occupants on a still night. I unzipped the top two vents and zipped the door part way down, and immediately felt a fresh air flow, even though there was no wind outside.In a colder and more humid setting I found that in the morning, the inside of the tent felt moist, but was not actually wet. In other words, no moisture had beaded and I would not get wet when touching it.Fortunately for this review, at my 3100m location, I got hit with a number of good rain storms and heavy winds. This tent never leaked a drop, and happily, no rain blew in through the open ceiling air vents under the minifly. Even when I touched the sides of the tent during the rain, they did not leak. There was no internal condensation during the rains, day or night. The air ventilation system catches and channels air and seems to create a power ventilation system. I was very impressed that a tent of this general shape was so taunt when no guylines were strung. In fair weather, you simply don't need them. The tent did make some rustling noise under some strong winds, and this noise decreased when I guyed out the sides and tightened the vestibule. The tremendous blasts of wind I experienced pulled out a couple of the needle stakes (the ground was soft) and moved two 7 or 8 kilogram rocks I had used as anchors to guy out the tent sides. That is how strong the wind was. (80kph?) No damage was done to the tent, and the tent would have had so much more to give if I had guyed it out everywhere and installed the Jake's Corners. The tent of course will shed wind best if you are able to pitch it so that the door or the rear is facing into the wind. If you have a strong cross wind, you need to have the air vents open to allow the air to pass through the tent. If they are closed in a crosswind, the air will get trapped underneath the minifly and exert strong upward lift on the tent. So, I suppose you will need to open the air vents at 40° below if you have 60 kilometer per hour cross winds. In short, in this tent I felt like I was sheltered from the elements: I was sealed in from the rain, and this tent can handle any wind I will encounter.One really nice touch is the reflective piping. Once at night when I was trying to find my way back to camp in the forest with a dim headlamp, as I scanned the forest, my headlamp "shone" on the tent at about 50 meters out, and the reflective piping on the tent lit up like a roman candle. Even with the headlamp, I would not have been able to have even seen the tent directly at that distance, if it were not for that piping, and would have walked way past camp and really wondered where I was.The vestibule was really handy: when leaving camp to go fishing I just threw all my junk in there, and it was all out of sight and protected from rain. Contrary to another review on this tent, you CAN get two full-size backpacks into the vestibule if you pack them so that they will stand up and if you place them right by the door. With the vestibule in place, you can leave the tent door unzipped for excellent ventilation and even a little star gazing through the clear skylight patch on the vestibule. One negative would be that without the vestibule (which zips off to stay at home), rain or snow will enter the tent while you do. Apparently, without the vestibule and the Jake's Corners, this tent weighs only 4 lbs 2oz. My advice would be that if you are traveling fast and light and far, breaking camp each day, leave those two at home. If you are going to set up camp in one place for a few days, or may face extreme wind, rain, or snow, take the vestibule and the JCs and laugh at the elements.Let's summarize, negatives first.CONSTwo minifly limitations:1. With the ventilation flaps under the minifly closed (which would only be desirable in super cold temps), in a crosswind, the minifly will really trap wind underneath it, which will exert lift and pressure on the tent itself. (Head or tail wind, no problem.)2. With the ventilation flaps and door closed, the air in the tent got noticeably stale overnight.3. Without the vestibule, rain and snow, if coming from the direction of the door or coming straight down, will enter the tent when you open the door,.4. The ridge pole which holds up the minifly at the tent's crown fit way too tightly, and is very difficult to remove.5. Construction gaffs: a small piece of fabric of the vestibule was accidentally sewn into the door zipper seam, and thus not separable from the canopy. A simple cut of a tiny slice of non-necessary fabric cured that. Also at one fabric juncture, a flap of material was not stitched together properly. Some SeamGrip took care of that.6. (2012 update) After three years of use, I just noticed that there are several small spots where the white Drizone coating on the inside of the tent is starting to wear off. I don't know yet if the tent will leak there or not.PROS:1. Door location: at one end. Better than one side door, as both occupants can get in and out without one having to climb over the other.2. Strength: This tent withstood some ferocious wind, (80kph I am guessing) which I frankly think would have leveled most off-brand cheap tents.3. Lightweight: Do any other sub-2-kilogram tents that are this strong even exist?4. Waterproofness: nothing came in.5. Low-condensation: I was surprised there was none on a still night with two occupants and the tent zipped up tightly. I attribute this to the Drizone material which, if not highly breathable, at least seems to do a good job of conducting moisture vapor to the outside.6. Airflow: with the two ceiling vents open under the minifly, or with those open plus the door partway unzipped, the flow was wonderful.7. Unprecedented Versatility: They say this is a four-season tent: I concur. Yet it is light enough and practical enough to take on any summer overnighter. I will use this tent all the time, everywhere, solo or with a partner, regardless of what kind of trip I am on, regardless of season, and regardless of conditions. I don't know of any other tent on the market about which I could say that. I found a winner.(I apologize that this review is so long, however..in the spirit of JC, this is the kind of review I wish someone had written for me.)
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