- 4-room dome tent with 172 square feet of floor space
- Polyester taffeta construction with 600mm coating for rain and wind resistance
- 1 main room and 3 satellite rooms; each include a Dutch "D" door for easy exit
- Includes mesh utility pockets, mud mat, and roll-top folding table
- Measures 18 by 18 by 7.6 feet (W x D x H)
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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:
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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4-room radical dome tent made of polyester taffeta tent body and rip-stop design. Rainfly features double pass polyurethane coating. Polyethylene rip-stop floor.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tent does have a Warranty,
By L Hill "hill4" (Springfield,IL.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wenger Massif II 4-Room Radical Dome Tent (Sports)
I wanted to include this cause it didn't say on the decription...This tent comes with a life time warranty and the poles of the tent have a one year warranty...I called and asked the company to ask.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Massif II - Big but not perfect,
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This review is from: Wenger Massif II 4-Room Radical Dome Tent (Sports)
I tried to research this tent as much as possible before making my purchase. I even went as far as to call wenger and speak with customer service rep. This tent is model year 2004 and wenger did not make a 2005 version. The Massif II, or any other Massiff, is no longer listed on the wenger web site. The floor of the tent is shaped like a square (18' by 18') with a quarter circle cut out of each corner. This leaves a cross like shape that has a large center area that is surrounded by four vestibules. Each vestibule has a zippered door attached, so one can enter the tent from any of the four vestibules. The tent also comes with divider curtains for each vestibule. These curtains fasten to the tent walls using a button loop method at four points. The curtain does not seal the vestibule from the rest of tent. In fact, there are very large gaps betweeen the walls of the tent and the curtain. The curtain does not a have zipper, so you must detach it from the tent to pass through the vestibule. The dimensions of each vestibule are 53"(across the door) by 76" (across the curtain) and is 43" deep (from door to curtain). This clearly isn't much room for sleeping. A vestibule might make a nice entry or gear locker, if the curtain sealed the vestibule from the rest of the tent and/or included a zipper. I my opinion I can't see much use for the vestibules, and I don't think I would ever use the curtains to cordon off a vestibule. The tent has twelve mesh windows. There is a window in each of the doors and then a window on each side of each vestibule. Three windows per vestibule, times four vestibules, equals twelve windows. Each window has a zippered flap. Completely unzipping a window flap exposes a small pocket into which the flap may be tucked. The pocket is actually part of the window flap, so there is no danger of water collecting in the pocket when the flap is sealed shut. I thought this was a clever solution to the flap storage isssue, as most tents just use a hook and button style strap to secure the flap. The roof of the tent is made almost entirely of mesh (including the vestibule roof), with exception of a small circle of polyester fabric at the very center of the roof. The roof is supported by a pole that stands in the very center of the tent. No one, anywhere, said anything about a pole in the middle of the tent. This tent is called a "radical dome". I guess radical means a pole in the center of the tent. Needless to say I don't like this additional pole. The floor of the tent is made of polyethylene, at probably 1000D. It looks and feels very much like a tarp. I like this material for floors because of its durability. The floor has several seems which are not stitched but instead are, for lack of a better term, laminated. Wenger calls this process a sonic seal, and claims it will not leak. It would more than likely leak if a stitch was used, so maybe thier on to something. I have seen this method of floor seeming in other tents, so it probably works quite well. The floor is attached to the walls, at ground level, and the seem is stitched. All of my research indicated that the walls and floor were seemed using the 'sonic seam'. This would, in effect, give the tent a bathtub bottom. This in not the case and anywhere there is a stitch then there is a possibility of a leak. Yet another minus for this tent. The rain fly is sturdy and covers the entire top of the tent. It extends only a few inches over the sides so it doesn't offer much protection to the tent walls. It is raised about three inches above the tent roof so air can circulate. The rain fly is your only protection from rain on the roof, since the tent roof is made of mesh. Putting the tent up is not extremely difficult, but it will require two people. There is a fiberglass spider pole (hub with 8 short poles) that is placed in sleeves in the center of the tent roof. This gives arch to the roof and provides a place to mount the annoying center pole. Over each vestibule door is a fiberglass cross-member pole that runs through a sleeve and then again attaches to the tent, at each end, using sewn in hooks. On each end of the cross-member pole is a socket for a steel upright pole. The steel upright poles run from the cross-member pole to the ground. When the tent is up, most of the support for the tent is provided by the cross-member and upright poles. The center pole (inside the tent) is used to vault the roof. The cross-member poles place tension on the tent at the sewn in hooks, this causes a slight flex in the cross-member pole as it pulls against the sewn in hooks. This tension is so exterme that one can see threads in the sewn in hooks as they are being pulled from the tent shell. I did not like this as it looked over-stressed and prone to failure. Rasing the upright poles requires two people, one on each side of the vestibule. Getting the tension on these poles correct was difficult. The bottom of the upright poles do not have a place on the tent where they are fastened, instead you place them on the dirt next to the tent. When the botttom of the upright poles were placed in the same manner as indicted in the picture on the box, the stress on the tent would be so great that the stakes near the vistibule door would pull out of the ground. This was a real pain and took a while to get right. The rainfly is easy to attach to the tent. The rainfly has elastic hooks for each upright pole. The upright pole has a hook to which the rainfly hook is attached. There is also a peice of velcro attached to the rainfly at each upright pole. This velcro strap wraps around the upright pole quite easily. The bad part is that the rain fly has 12 guy lines that help pull it away from the tent. There are two guy lines for each vestibule and one guy line between each vestibule. Not only is that more stakes and work, but imagine how many people are going to trip over you guy lines. Imagine triping over one in the dark! It wouldn't be that hard since each entrance is guarded by two guy lines. The stuff bag for the tent is very nice. It is made of tough nylon canvas and has wheels and sturdy handles. Also nice about the bag is the tent actually fits into it. The tent also includes a small table with four built in drink holders. The table has a hole in the center so you can optionally run the center pole through the center of the table. It is probably a good idea to run the center pole through the table, so someone does not knock down your center pole. The center pole is only held in place, at the bottom, with a small rubber foot. The tent also has four mesh pockets near the roof. The pockets are small and more suited for storing keys or a flashlight. The stakes are made of plastic, and like most plastic stakes, aren't very durable. It takes 16 stakes for the tent and 12 for the rainfly guy lines. You will need to purchase 28 metal stakes to replace the cheap plastic ones. Well there you have it. For me, the tent has to many design flaws for the money. Maybe that's why they discontinued the tent.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The "BIG" tent,
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This review is from: Wenger Massif II 4-Room Radical Dome Tent (Sports)
The tent was great - size, set up, etc was fine. The only downside was the room dividers were hard to get around, plus a queen air bed would not fit in the rooms, so if you get this tent, make sure you have no bigger than a double air mattress.
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