- Four-season geodesic dome tent for up to three (8' 11" by 7' 8" floor; 52 square foot area)
- Geodesic dome design is extremely strong to support heavy snows and high winds
- Two vestibules for storm protection and gear storage (12' and 6' 4" square foot)
- 8.5 mm 7001-T6 aluminum frame (four poles) has a specially formulated cold weather shockcord
- Center height of 48 inches; weighs 11 pounds, 6 ounces
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Eureka's most roomiest and popular 4-season tent, the K-2 XT geodesic dome-style tent is built to handle the most extreme and demanding winter conditions. It features two doors and two vestibules (measuring 12 and 6.25 square foot in area) for additional storage as well as protection from the weather when entering/exiting the tent. The larger front vestibule is hooped with an external pole for strength and uses quick-release buckles for an easy set up. The durable Stormshield Plus polyester fly includes a large, clear PU window panel. This tent has two doors (with windows), two scoop vents, vestibule vents, two large sidewall vents, and two roof vents. Eureka's patented High/Low doors vent from the top and/or bottom provide even more options for moderating air flow.
The 8.5 mm 7001-T6 aluminum frame (four poles) has a specially formulated cold weather shockcord, and the clips and post and grommet corner attachments promise a fast set up when faced with extreme weather conditions. All fly and floor seams taped and factory sealed for superior weather protection. Other features include reflective web, storm guyouts for nighttime visibility, 14-pocket organizer wall, four gear loft loops, and one flashlight loop
Specifications:
- Area: 52 square feet plus 12- and 6.5-square foot vestibules
- Floor size: 9 feet by 7 feet, 6 inches
- Center height: 4 feet
- Wall fabrics: 1.9-ounce permeable nylon/40D no-see-um
- Floor fabrics: 1.9-ounce Taffeta nylon with 3000mm coating
- Fly fabrics: StormShield Plus Ripstop Polyester Taffeta with 1800mm coating
- Pack size: 8 by 30 inches
- Weight: 11 pounds, 6 ounces
About Eureka
Though the exact year is unknown, Eureka’s long history begins prior to 1895 in Binghamton, New York, where the company still resides today. Then known as the Eureka Tent & Awning Company, its first wares were canvas products--most notably, Conestoga wagon covers and horse blankets for nineteenth century American frontiersmen--as well as American flags, store awnings, and camping tents.
The company increased production of its custom canvas products locally throughout the 1930s and during the 1940 and even fabricated and erected the IBM "tent cities" just outside Binghamton. The seven acres of tents housed thousands of IBM salesmen during the company’s annual stockholders meeting, which had since outgrown its previous locale. In the 1940s, with the advent of World War II and the increased demand for hospital ward tents, Eureka expanded operations and began shipping tents worldwide. Ultimately, upon the post-war return of the GIs and the resultant housing shortage, Eureka turned its attention to the home front during the 1950s by supplying awnings for the multitude of mobile homes that were purchased.
In 1960, Eureka’s new and innovative Draw-Tite tent, with its practical, free standing external frame, was used in a Himalayan Expedition to Nepal by world renowned Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person documented to summit Mt. Everest only six years earlier. In 1963, Eureka made history during its own Mt. Everest ascent, with more than 60 of its tents sheltering participants from fierce 60+ mph winds and temperatures reaching below -20°F during the first all American Mt. Everest Expedition.
For backpackers and families, Eureka introduced its legendary Timberline tent in the 1970s. Truly the first StormShield design, this completely self-supporting and lightweight backpacking tent became one of the most popular tents the entire industry with sales reaching over 1 million by its ten year anniversary.
Eureka tents have also traveled as part of several historic expeditions, including the American Women’s Himalayan Expedition to Annapurna I in 1978 and the first Mt. Everest ascents by a Canadian and American woman in 1986 and 1988. In recent history, tents specially designed and donated by Eureka sheltered Eric Simonson and his team on two historic research expeditions to Mount Everest, this time in a quest for truth regarding the 1924 attempted summit of early English explorers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. During the 1999 expedition, the team made history finding the remains of George Mallory, but the complete mystery remained unsolved. Returning in 2001 to search for more clues, the team found amazing historical artifacts which are now on display at the Smithsonian.
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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.
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Winter Palace,
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This review is from: Eureka! K-2 XT - Tent (sleeps 3) (Sports)
This has to be my favorite Eureka 4-season tent. If I only had one tent for everything (yeah, right!), this would be the one. The geodesic dome shape (4 aircraft aluminum poles) is incredibly strong...maybe the strongest of all tent designs. Ripstop fabric with extra waterproof coating will stop rain, snow and ice and the unique guy-line arrangement gives me some flexibilty when anchoring this tent. Like my Alpenlite 2XT, this tent comes with two vestibules and the rear vesti can be accessed from inside the tent via a second/back door. I wasn't sure about all the vents at first but I'm finding that they make the tent a good choice for warmer weather, too! I've posted a bunch of pictures for this tent so take a look. If there is a down side to this tent...it's a bit heavy for a backpack. The fix for this?...I fall back on Boy Scout training and divide the components. I'll carry the tent body and my friend Sharon Sharalike gets the rainfly, poles and stakes. An outstanding tent!!!
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Worthy Investment In Excellent Equipment,
By Morpheus (SE USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eureka! K-2 XT - Tent (sleeps 3) (Sports)
I own an earlier model of this tent. It is magnificent (it is also slightly more heavy duty than the current K2-XT, with the specs matching or exceeding other leading 4 season two person tents in the same class at the time).Before I purchased it, I invested numerous hours researching Eureka, The Northface, Marmot, Helsport, and various other tent manufacturers - looking into all the info they had to offer in respect to exactly what, where, and by whom their tents and tent materials were made by. I came to discover that all of the 4 season tents offered in the American market were made entirely in Asia from Asian parts and materials. The only exception to this was Helsport, which was made and assembled entirely in Europe (and may still be). In fact, I also came to find out that another of the big tent names used precisely the same factories in China and elsewhere across Asia, and exactly the same materials (made by the same manufacturers) to make its top end 4 season tents as did/does Eureka for their's. What other tents you might ask? Turn your face to the north and ask that question again. Regardless, this Eureka K2 XT tent really is a wonderful piece of equipment. If you can only have one tent for two people, and expect the tent to stand up to pretty much any climate, any weather, and to last for many years even under heavy use - get this tent. However, please do be aware that it is not the lightest of shelters what that can be had, which is where dividing it up between two people's backpacks is the way to go. This is the price you pay for maximum duty materials and a spacious floor plan (the tent will sleep three adults without discomfort). It would be nice, however, if Eureka (and others) would be so nice as to offer either choices of tent rain fly colors (the K2 XT is sun yellow, as are most tents of its 4 season nature) making available perhaps a snow field white fly and a camoflauge fly; or else if kits could be offered to alter or elsewise jazz-up one's rain fly on the tent. But anyway, if you do make a smart choice and purchase a K2 XT tent, go ahead and get a net gear loft for the tent, and purchase some strong tent pegs, with an eye for good deals on titanium pegs on eBay. The K2 XT is truly a fine piece of camping/mountaineering/survival equipment. The tent manufacturers missed an excellent opportunity to put themselves to the test, big time and in big ways, during hurricane Katrina. I bet if you could have dug in a bit and then staked and roped it down securely enough that a K2 XT would have survived the storm (excluding flying debris). The tent is that strong. Please understand that I am not saying to go out and put yourself in the path of a dangerous storm of that magnitude, just to see if the gear will hold up. I am simply saying that having a K2 XT tent available to you would hugely increase one's chances of surviving a storm such as Katrina, if you were caught in the wild facing such a storm. Buy one and see for yourself.
20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
there is a reason....,
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This review is from: Eureka! K-2 XT - Tent (sleeps 3) (Sports)
well i do high mountain climbing quite often and never seen an eureka there, the reasons?too heavy (compared to similar tents like the hillebergs or the ev25 from north face) and under very heavy conditions simply not tested enough, i had seen one of these rip under extreme weather on mt ranier, had to take the guys into our tent, they were not happy. My tent? a hilleberg saiva. But this is the review of the eureka and my experience is that for cold climate is not suited I slept in one this winter and it was -22 celsius, it was like sleeping outside, with all the mesh, no heat was trapped inside and we had ice forming on the inside of the outer layer. All in all not a tent i would recommend if you are going to use it in extreme conditions (aka I won't bet my life on it for sure). for all other uses it might be fine but the weight is just a lot, on the other hand the price is interesting.
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