- Tent offers a strong, simple fiberglass four-pole design
- Cyclone Venting System delivers a comfortable airflow
- Store gear in four pockets and a hanging loft
- 7.5 by 7.5-foot footprint and four feet of height
- Features two doors and a bay window
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Product Description
The Columbia three-person McKenzie Pass Dome Tent offers you a strong, simple aluminum four-pole design with sealed seams and a Cyclone Venting System for comfortable airflow. It allows you to easily store your gear with four organizer pockets and a hanging loft. Intended for outdoor or backyard camping, this dome tent features a 7.5 x 7.5-foot footprint and offers four feet of height in the middle of the tent. This tent is light enough for outdoor camping and sturdy enough to withstand strong weather. The design includes two doors and bay windows to insure proper ventilation. Plus, it also comes equipped with a handled bag for easy carrying.
About Columbia Sportswear
Founded in 1938, Columbia Sportswear Company has grown from a small family-owned hat distributor to one of the world's largest outerwear brands and the leading seller of ski-wear in the United States. Columbia's extensive product line includes a wide variety of outerwear, sportswear, rugged footwear and accessories. Columbia specializes in developing innovative products that are functional yet stylish and offer great value. Eighty-year-old matriarch Gert Boyle, Chairman of the Board, and her son, Tim Boyle, President and CEO, lead the company.
Columbia's history starts with Gert's parents, Paul and Marie Lamfrom, when they fled Germany in 1937. They bought a small hat distributorship in Portland, Oregon, and named it Columbia Hat Company, after the river bordering the city. Soon frustrated by poor deliveries from suppliers, the Lamfroms decided to start manufacturing products themselves. In 1948, Gert married college sweetheart Neal Boyle, who joined the family business and later took the helm of the growing company. When Neal suddenly died of a heart attack in 1970, Gert enlisted help from Tim, then a college senior. After that, it wasn't long before business really started to take off. Columbia was one of the first companies to make jackets from waterproof/breathable fabric. They introduced the breakthrough technology called the Columbia Interchange System, in which a shell and liner combine for multiple wearing options. In the early 1980s, then 60-year-old Gert began her role as "Mother Boyle" in Columbia's successful and popular advertising campaign.
The company went public in 1998 and moved into a new era as a world leader in the active outdoor apparel industry. Today, Columbia Sportswear employs more than 1,800 people around the world and distributes and sells products in more than 50 countries and to more than 12,000 retailers internationally.
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Selecting a Tent
Fortunately, there are all kinds of tents for weekend car campers, Everest expeditions, and everything in-between. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
Expect the Worst
In general, it's wise to choose a tent that's designed to withstand the worst possible conditions you think you'll face. For instance, if you're a summer car camper in a region where weather is predictable, an inexpensive family or all purpose tent will likely do the trick--especially if a vehicle is nearby and you can make a mad dash for safety when bad weather swoops in! If you're a backpacker, alpine climber or bike explorer, or if you like to car camp in all seasons, you'll want to take something designed to handle more adversity.
Three- and Four-Season Tents
For summer, early fall and late spring outings, choose a three-season tent. At minimum, a quality three season tent will have lightweight aluminum poles, a reinforced floor, durable stitching, and a quality rain-fly. Some three-season tents offer more open-air netting and are more specifically designed for summer backpacking and other activities. Many premium tents will feature pre-sealed, taped seams and a silicone-impregnated rain-fly for enhanced waterproofness.
For winter camping or alpine travel, go with a four season model. Because they typically feature more durable fabric coatings, as well as more poles, four-season tents are designed to handle heavy snowfall and high winds without collapsing. Of course, four-season tents exact a weight penalty of about 10 to 20 percent in trade for their strength and durability. They also tend to be more expensive.
Domes and Tunnels
Tents are broadly categorized into two types, freestanding, which can stand up on their own, and those that must be staked down in order to stand upright. Freestanding tents often incorporate a dome-shaped design, and most four-season tents are constructed this way because a dome leaves no flat spots on the outer surface where snow can collect. Domes are also inherently stronger than any other design. Meanwhile, many three-season models employ a modified dome configuration called a tunnel. These are still freestanding, but they require fewer poles than a dome, use less fabric, and typically have a rectangular floor-plan that offers less storage space than a dome configuration. Many one and two-person tents are not freestanding, but they make up for it by being more lightweight. Because they use fewer poles, they can also be quicker to set up than a dome.
Size Matters
Ask yourself how many people you'd like to fit in your fabric hotel now and in the future. For soloists and minimalists, check out one-person tents. If you're a mega-minimalist, or if you have your eye on doing some big wall climbs, a waterproof-breathable bivy sack is the ticket. Some bivy sacks feature poles and stake points to give you a little more breathing room. Also, if you don't need bug protection and you want to save weight, check out open-air shelters.
Families who plan on car camping in good weather can choose from a wide range of jumbo-sized tents that will accommodate all your little ones with room to spare. A wide range of capacities is also available for three- and four-season backpacking and expedition tents. Remember, though, the bigger the tent you buy, the heavier it will be, although it's easy to break up the tent components among several people in your group. It's also helpful to compare the volume and floor-space measurements of models you're considering.
Product Description
Columbia's 2- to 3- Person McKenzie Pass Tent offers a high quality Columbia tent with the standard Columbia features at a price point that is perfect for outdoor or backyard camping. The dome tent is 7.5' x 7.5' and stands 4 feet tall in the middle of the tent. With fiberglass poles, the tent is light enough for outdoors camping and sturdy enough to withstand strong weather. The design includes two doors and bay windows to insure proper ventilation. The tent includes many of the finer details in all Columbia tents: gear loft inside the tent, sturdy carry bag, aluminum stakes, and P/T 1905 1500 mm material.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice tent, good size, not very easy to set up,
This review is from: Columbia McKenzie Pass 7.5-Foot by 7.5-Foot Three-Person Tent (Sports)
The tent is a good size, 7.5 X 7.5 with a square floor, allowing us to set up in smaller areas but have good space inside. Good ventilation from the Cyclone vents. The tent leaked moderately in a heavy downpour. I did not seal the seams before the trip. I'm one of those people that believe you shouldn't have to. I've had other tents that didn't leak a drop with any seam sealer applied but I will for this tent for future camps. The floor is made up of the regular tent material... nothing reinforced like in a lot of tents. Looks like it could tear or damage easily as it's really thin. I would recommend something to put underneath. The four poles to set up the tent wasn't a big deal to use but getting them through the actual pole sleeves proved frustrating, even after 6 setups.
Overall though, I would buy this tent again. Slap on some seam sealer and buy a tent pad to protect the floor.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good ventilation but difficult to set up,
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This review is from: Columbia McKenzie Pass 7.5-Foot by 7.5-Foot Three-Person Tent (Sports)
I got this tent at a good discount before the price went up again by another $5 so I guess it had good value for money. Ventilation was all it said it was with the tent fly strategically designed that you get good air flow. I was able to stay inside on a hot day without the usual discomfort with my other full fly tent. However, the 4-pole system is difficult to set-up and requires at least 2 people to set it up although 3 is probably preferable.
One issue I have though is the missing hanging loft. The description and parts list indicates a hanging loft as part of the whole set, but mine did not have one, probably a silent exchange for the higher discount originally given. A good tent overall, but minus 1 star for difficulty to set up and 1 star for missing the hanging loft.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
quality and a good price,
By Miss Katri (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Columbia McKenzie Pass 7.5-Foot by 7.5-Foot Three-Person Tent (Sports)
I saw a display model of this tent in a local camping store. It has all the features in the description and would certainly accomodate 2 people and their gear. I ordered one from Amazon before I saw the display model and realized that what I needed was a tent with a rainfly that goes down to the ground as I will be camping in the desert. The roof of the tent is almost entirely mesh, which would certainly help cool it but wouldn't keep the dust out. I think it would be a great summer car camping tent as it's probably too heavy for backpacking.
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