I made several modifications to the Xmid 1 person tent that makes for a safer pitch and better experience on the inside. #xmid #camping #backpacking #gear
one tip: in soft ground, the pole will sink into the ground, if it is tip into the ground - this will cause your tent to become loose and flappy. To solve this, use a pringle lid, or chop a tennis ball in half so you can spread the area and not have your pole(s) sink into the ground.
My poles have mud baskets so I haven't had that issue. I push them into the ground a little bit for stability. But poles without baskets would need to do something like that. Thanks!
Thank you for stopping in! I almost ordered the ones from Tarptent but couldn't wait for their arrival. I whipped these up in about 45 minutes and part of that was fighting the sewing machine. Ornery thing.
So far it's been a great tent. It is so easy to set up and take down. It has helped me whittle down pack up time in the mornings. The easier I make things on myself, the happier I am in the woods!
I to was worried about doing tip up not just for the mice issue I never though of that. More for the the fact I'd pole slips and the tip comes out of the grommet. I asked Dan about this and he suggested the trekking poke adaptors from tarptent that tie on to where the grommets are. Each one is $4.00 so I will order two. They are thw same as what you did.
It's a wonderful tent. The Lanshans are nice too. I just get stressed with the guy lines plus the 1 person I have lacks the headroom I need. It left me feeling a bit claustrophobic. I liked the Lanshan the first two times I took it out and then I hated it after that. The 2 person Lanshan is much better and roomy and I considered it but since I was going to drop more money I figured I'd go with one without the lines. Less stress equals happier camp time. 😀
just got my xmid 2 solid recently for me and my two pups. Yesterday was the first test pitch, and I really like that the solid is fabric nearly around rather than mesh. It seems like it will be much more pup friendly, which is a priority to me
Thank you for dropping in! This X-mid is my new favorite tent. In comparison to the Luxe, the X-mid is faster to pitch and take down, lighter in weight and can easily be set up in the rain without the inner getting wet. Since it is a trekking pole tent, it takes up less room in my pack as well. All of these reasons, in my opinion, make it the better tent for me for multiple day, longer mileage trips. I do sacrifice inside space since it is a 1 person tent but it doesn't feel claustrophobic like other 1 person tents I've owned. The Luxe Tempo is a great tent but is heavier, takes a little more time to pitch and take down and is more of a problem when trying to pitch it in the rain. It can be pitched fly first and then add the inner but it requires some contortionist moves to do so. It is more palace like on the inside and roomy enough for me, my dog and our gear without feeling cramped. I totally would take this tent on a trip, even if my dog didn't accompany me, if I was doing lower mileage and planning to spend more time at camp. Having the extra room inside to spread out is nice. In hotter weather, I believe the Luxe Tempo would be the cooler tent since air would be able to circulate more easily. It does take up more room in the pack due to the poles but that's not really an issue to me since my pack is large enough to handle it. They both are great tents that serve me well in different scenarios. Hope this helps!
Would you consider this your favorite tent? I'm in search of a unicorn tent. I can't seem to find one that can be pitched with the inner only as well as with the fly, side entry, under 3 lbs that costs under $200 and bonus if it's a 1.5 -2 person tent. :p
This is my favorite 1 person super light tent. My next favorite is the 2 person Marmot Tungsten UL but it's slightly over three pounds when you lose the stuff sack, change out stakes and don't take all the extra guy lines, which I've never needed. Both of these are over 200, though. Check out the Featherstone line of tents. My friend has two of them and they've been wonderful. She started with the freestanding tent then got the trekking pole one last year. I believe the inner can be set up without the fly. There is also the Lanshan that a lot of people use with great results, if you like trekking pole tents. Hope this helps!
So let me get this straight, you spent a lot of money to buy an ultra light tent. Just to save a few ounces. Then you do a few modification, which probably added the Oz you saved back to it . Oh I'm not putting you down I modify my stuff all the time but I don't buy expensive ultra light stuff. You know instead of buying all that expensive lightweight gear that doesn't last very long you could have bought one of those little carts that attaches to your waist on a belt and you wouldn't have to carry anything it would pull behind you and they even attached to bicycles. You can even convert them to a pack if you're somewhere that you can't pull it up a trail. Personally I hate the ultralight equipment because of all the virtue signaling a lot of the day hikers are always doing on CZcams. Where they have gear layouts with their little butt Buddies antique each other on stuff. I'm sorry but if you bring a small paperback book and call it a guilty pleasure something is wrong with that person. I've also noticed those kinds of people run through the woods trying to turn a bunch of miles. There are literally surrounded by the beauty of Nature and awe-inspiring scenery and yet they are oblivious to it talking about their plans of getting off the trail in 2 days after they cranked out another 40 to 60 me in the next day or two. I have even heard them brag about doing 40 miles a day. If you're going to do 40 Mi a day where are you out there? You need to go to a track. Because you're not going to see anything anyway. Are forefathers and the men who explored our country would average only 10 miles a day and Carry over 100 lb worth of gear. They would hunt fish and do all kinds of things out there. They didn't have their little wooden platforms to complain about when they are all full up and they have to actually put their lightweight tints on the ground. Or carry thousands of dollars in their pockets to buy warm meals here and there or spend the night in some kind of half-ass hostel. Or spending $30 on a bowl of vegetarian soup. And the thing is these lightweight tents and equipment only lasts a season or two. And a lot of these characters just get them for the namesake and bragging rights. I'm not talking about you usually it's the young 20 year old vegans addicted to soy. Who should be able to handle heavy equipment but instead of getting stronger and carrying the extra 2 oz they go even more limp rusted and try to get overpriced lightweight gear. And they have their little Trail names and are all about feeling so important. Now I understand older people in handicapped people trying to cut down on weight. My knees are shot so I don't try to carry around 100 lb on my back anymore. But since I can't afford $500 for one of those little carts I just drop it on a bicycle and push the bicycle especially up hills. And ride it when you can. I mean it's not that hard to make a rack on the back or the front to put your gear on. You can literally carry military canvas Surplus without even breaking a sweat. You don't have to carry a $400 backpack that you have to throw away in a few months because the plastic zipper fell off, or it snagged on something in the nylon ripped out. You can strap and Alice pack over your front handlebars. I have a couple of different tents and accessories I use. None of them too damn expensive. I have one that's a pop-up bug net small tent. That's not very hard to put an ultra light tarp over at any height I want. Or even a rain poncho. Hell I have a big teepee someone threw away at the pow wow that was just missing one of the supporting rods that goes into a leg. I went down to Lowe's bought an iron rod drilled a hole in it and the other rod and made it where a small bolt and Wingnut could attach it can I take it camping all the time. But you're not going to carry something like that into the woods unless you have it strapped to a motorcycle or bicycle. We are older for a reason, because we're supposed to be smarter than these dumb-ass kids who don't even know which bathroom to use and can't Define what a woman is.
Ha! You tickle me! The weight difference between my previous tent and this one is significant enough to matter and the mods are insignificant overall. I chose this model because it's polyester and not the dyneema that everyone says is so rugged but seems to keep ripping apart. This one was also significantly cheaper than it's Pro brother that I could never justify dropping money on. Besides the weight savings, I have found I can set it up and take it down much faster than any of my other tents. That's a big plus for me since I'm generally the last person getting things packed up to leave camp. I get flustered knowing others are waiting on me. So technically this tent helps me physically and mentally! As far as the super ultralighters and high milers are concerned, I guess they enjoy the bragging and that's fine if that's what they desire. I'll stick to enjoying nature and the healing I get from it.
@@MtnWanderer-TieDye- well I'm glad you enjoy it and take a slower pace. I didn't figure you were into that high pressure stuff those are usually 20 something year olds living in their parents basement. Their mommies and daddies bought them camping gear to get them out of the house. I've been known to get cheap tents at Walmart solely because they had good ventilation and metal zippers. Then I paint everything except the netting with clear Flex seal. I usually do the bottom and the floor with black and suddenly I have a 20.00 tent that could survive a hurricane without leaking. I have one of those big pop-up types that you carry around like a big disc you throw it in the air and before it lands and it turns into a tent. I don't know how many years I've had it. We have weathered some pretty good storms in it. Somehow the carbon fiber pools that bend around broke so I had to cut it around the same and take them up then I sewed it back and reapplied the Flex Seal so it's still going good and I had to replace a zipper. My kids usually use that tent now because it is so dang easy they like throwing it up in the air and yelling Alakazam. I don't really know much about those ultralights other than they're more than I want to pay I've watched a few of the ultralight people trying to see what all the fuss was about. I don't even waste my money on that stuff even when I'm on a job and I'm a welding inspector on the pipeline. When I'm not being disabled between jobs. I'm the kind of guy that would crawl out there if I couldn't walk I can't turn down money like that. I'm sure not going to waste it on some of the stuff I've seen on CZcams. No I did like the video where they took a poncho and put tent poles in it to make it into a tent. I think I got both poles for under $20. Now that's ultra light. I carry a military Poncho anyway all I have to do is put the poles together set it up and I got rain cover I can cut four y branches and have a canopy however tall I want to make it. Thought about cutting some plastic like painters plastic. Maybe three or four feet tall and long enough to go all the way around the tent. That stuff would roll up really small. I can reinforce the edges with Gorilla Tape placing grommets in the appropriate positions which is usually just a small washer with Gorilla Tape going over it. It'll hold it down and it'll hold it up. And if I use clear at least on one side and maybe a mylar blanket on the other cut to the appropriate size it would be like a super shelter for winter time. Just an idea I've been toying with.
The mods are to make one's self feel comfortable. My thought is that TieDye would do this regardless the weight of the tent. The durston xmid isn't an expensive ultralight tent, but just 240 dollars. It is the Pro version that is expensive over 500.
@@MtnWanderer-TieDye- many people pack ultralight so that they can take other comfort gear and not being overloaded. I personally do not like putting a weight on what is ultralight, but rather it being just a mindset to cut weight. Previously
Let’s make this personal. My kinda gal😆
one tip: in soft ground, the pole will sink into the ground, if it is tip into the ground - this will cause your tent to become loose and flappy. To solve this, use a pringle lid, or chop a tennis ball in half so you can spread the area and not have your pole(s) sink into the ground.
My poles have mud baskets so I haven't had that issue. I push them into the ground a little bit for stability. But poles without baskets would need to do something like that. Thanks!
Awesome stuff, might have to think about similar mods of my own!
Thanks! I love making things work better for me.
Pretty slick to make a perfect tent even better! Love it!
Thank you! I really do love this tent.
Brilliant modications! And thank you for including the Tarptent information. I really like the moveable pocket!
Thank you for stopping in! I almost ordered the ones from Tarptent but couldn't wait for their arrival. I whipped these up in about 45 minutes and part of that was fighting the sewing machine. Ornery thing.
Nice looking tent and great mods you've done😁
Thank you!
Great modifications❤ love the loop you sewed too. So innovative. Great idea with the clothesline. I'm too cheap I still use the lanshan.
The Lanshans are great tents but the guy lines stress me out. We had a traumatic relationship and I ended it. 😆
I love this! Excellent mods thank you for the ideas 😊I’ll be getting my XMid in the next month ready for the English spring and summer 🙏🏻 ATB, Sarah
Awesome! I think you'll really love this tent. I'm hoping to get back out very soon.
If I ever get an ultralight tent, it will probably be this one in dyneema. I like your mods. The trekking pole one would be a tent-saver!
So far it's been a great tent. It is so easy to set up and take down. It has helped me whittle down pack up time in the mornings. The easier I make things on myself, the happier I am in the woods!
I have the Xmid as well, great mods, thanks!
I'm loving this tent! Mostly because of no need for guy lines.
I to was worried about doing tip up not just for the mice issue I never though of that. More for the the fact I'd pole slips and the tip comes out of the grommet. I asked Dan about this and he suggested the trekking poke adaptors from tarptent that tie on to where the grommets are. Each one is $4.00 so I will order two. They are thw same as what you did.
That was a concern of mine as well. The tent is really great and making personal changes/upgrades makes it even better!
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Very nice well done here
See you soon be safe always
Great mods. I've heard wonderful things about these tents, but I'll probably always be a Lanshan girl. I do love that magnet though.
It's a wonderful tent. The Lanshans are nice too. I just get stressed with the guy lines plus the 1 person I have lacks the headroom I need. It left me feeling a bit claustrophobic. I liked the Lanshan the first two times I took it out and then I hated it after that. The 2 person Lanshan is much better and roomy and I considered it but since I was going to drop more money I figured I'd go with one without the lines. Less stress equals happier camp time. 😀
@@MtnWanderer-TieDye- Amen!
just got my xmid 2 solid recently for me and my two pups. Yesterday was the first test pitch, and I really like that the solid is fabric nearly around rather than mesh. It seems like it will be much more pup friendly, which is a priority to me
Could make a lot of money selling those handle saddles
How would you say this compares to the Luxe Tempo budget tent that you did a video review of? Thanks! Love your reviews.
Thank you for dropping in! This X-mid is my new favorite tent. In comparison to the Luxe, the X-mid is faster to pitch and take down, lighter in weight and can easily be set up in the rain without the inner getting wet. Since it is a trekking pole tent, it takes up less room in my pack as well. All of these reasons, in my opinion, make it the better tent for me for multiple day, longer mileage trips. I do sacrifice inside space since it is a 1 person tent but it doesn't feel claustrophobic like other 1 person tents I've owned. The Luxe Tempo is a great tent but is heavier, takes a little more time to pitch and take down and is more of a problem when trying to pitch it in the rain. It can be pitched fly first and then add the inner but it requires some contortionist moves to do so. It is more palace like on the inside and roomy enough for me, my dog and our gear without feeling cramped. I totally would take this tent on a trip, even if my dog didn't accompany me, if I was doing lower mileage and planning to spend more time at camp. Having the extra room inside to spread out is nice. In hotter weather, I believe the Luxe Tempo would be the cooler tent since air would be able to circulate more easily. It does take up more room in the pack due to the poles but that's not really an issue to me since my pack is large enough to handle it. They both are great tents that serve me well in different scenarios. Hope this helps!
These are all great ideas but the clothesline is brilliant!! I wonder if there is any way I can rig that up without sewing
I guess you could use safety pins. Would need to find some that don't open easy so you wouldn't poke holes in the tent when packing it up.
Nice, good thinkin!@@MtnWanderer-TieDye-
Would you consider this your favorite tent? I'm in search of a unicorn tent. I can't seem to find one that can be pitched with the inner only as well as with the fly, side entry, under 3 lbs that costs under $200 and bonus if it's a 1.5 -2 person tent. :p
This is my favorite 1 person super light tent. My next favorite is the 2 person Marmot Tungsten UL but it's slightly over three pounds when you lose the stuff sack, change out stakes and don't take all the extra guy lines, which I've never needed. Both of these are over 200, though. Check out the Featherstone line of tents. My friend has two of them and they've been wonderful. She started with the freestanding tent then got the trekking pole one last year. I believe the inner can be set up without the fly. There is also the Lanshan that a lot of people use with great results, if you like trekking pole tents. Hope this helps!
So let me get this straight, you spent a lot of money to buy an ultra light tent. Just to save a few ounces. Then you do a few modification, which probably added the Oz you saved back to it .
Oh I'm not putting you down I modify my stuff all the time but I don't buy expensive ultra light stuff. You know instead of buying all that expensive lightweight gear that doesn't last very long you could have bought one of those little carts that attaches to your waist on a belt and you wouldn't have to carry anything it would pull behind you and they even attached to bicycles. You can even convert them to a pack if you're somewhere that you can't pull it up a trail.
Personally I hate the ultralight equipment because of all the virtue signaling a lot of the day hikers are always doing on CZcams. Where they have gear layouts with their little butt Buddies antique each other on stuff. I'm sorry but if you bring a small paperback book and call it a guilty pleasure something is wrong with that person.
I've also noticed those kinds of people run through the woods trying to turn a bunch of miles. There are literally surrounded by the beauty of Nature and awe-inspiring scenery and yet they are oblivious to it talking about their plans of getting off the trail in 2 days after they cranked out another 40 to 60 me in the next day or two. I have even heard them brag about doing 40 miles a day. If you're going to do 40 Mi a day where are you out there? You need to go to a track. Because you're not going to see anything anyway. Are forefathers and the men who explored our country would average only 10 miles a day and Carry over 100 lb worth of gear. They would hunt fish and do all kinds of things out there. They didn't have their little wooden platforms to complain about when they are all full up and they have to actually put their lightweight tints on the ground. Or carry thousands of dollars in their pockets to buy warm meals here and there or spend the night in some kind of half-ass hostel. Or spending $30 on a bowl of vegetarian soup.
And the thing is these lightweight tents and equipment only lasts a season or two. And a lot of these characters just get them for the namesake and bragging rights. I'm not talking about you usually it's the young 20 year old vegans addicted to soy. Who should be able to handle heavy equipment but instead of getting stronger and carrying the extra 2 oz they go even more limp rusted and try to get overpriced lightweight gear.
And they have their little Trail names and are all about feeling so important.
Now I understand older people in handicapped people trying to cut down on weight. My knees are shot so I don't try to carry around 100 lb on my back anymore. But since I can't afford $500 for one of those little carts I just drop it on a bicycle and push the bicycle especially up hills. And ride it when you can. I mean it's not that hard to make a rack on the back or the front to put your gear on. You can literally carry military canvas Surplus without even breaking a sweat. You don't have to carry a $400 backpack that you have to throw away in a few months because the plastic zipper fell off, or it snagged on something in the nylon ripped out. You can strap and Alice pack over your front handlebars.
I have a couple of different tents and accessories I use. None of them too damn expensive. I have one that's a pop-up bug net small tent. That's not very hard to put an ultra light tarp over at any height I want. Or even a rain poncho.
Hell I have a big teepee someone threw away at the pow wow that was just missing one of the supporting rods that goes into a leg. I went down to Lowe's bought an iron rod drilled a hole in it and the other rod and made it where a small bolt and Wingnut could attach it can I take it camping all the time. But you're not going to carry something like that into the woods unless you have it strapped to a motorcycle or bicycle.
We are older for a reason, because we're supposed to be smarter than these dumb-ass kids who don't even know which bathroom to use and can't Define what a woman is.
Ha! You tickle me! The weight difference between my previous tent and this one is significant enough to matter and the mods are insignificant overall. I chose this model because it's polyester and not the dyneema that everyone says is so rugged but seems to keep ripping apart. This one was also significantly cheaper than it's Pro brother that I could never justify dropping money on. Besides the weight savings, I have found I can set it up and take it down much faster than any of my other tents. That's a big plus for me since I'm generally the last person getting things packed up to leave camp. I get flustered knowing others are waiting on me. So technically this tent helps me physically and mentally!
As far as the super ultralighters and high milers are concerned, I guess they enjoy the bragging and that's fine if that's what they desire. I'll stick to enjoying nature and the healing I get from it.
@@MtnWanderer-TieDye- well I'm glad you enjoy it and take a slower pace. I didn't figure you were into that high pressure stuff those are usually 20 something year olds living in their parents basement. Their mommies and daddies bought them camping gear to get them out of the house. I've been known to get cheap tents at Walmart solely because they had good ventilation and metal zippers. Then I paint everything except the netting with clear Flex seal. I usually do the bottom and the floor with black and suddenly I have a 20.00 tent that could survive a hurricane without leaking.
I have one of those big pop-up types that you carry around like a big disc you throw it in the air and before it lands and it turns into a tent. I don't know how many years I've had it. We have weathered some pretty good storms in it. Somehow the carbon fiber pools that bend around broke so I had to cut it around the same and take them up then I sewed it back and reapplied the Flex Seal so it's still going good and I had to replace a zipper. My kids usually use that tent now because it is so dang easy they like throwing it up in the air and yelling Alakazam.
I don't really know much about those ultralights other than they're more than I want to pay I've watched a few of the ultralight people trying to see what all the fuss was about. I don't even waste my money on that stuff even when I'm on a job and I'm a welding inspector on the pipeline. When I'm not being disabled between jobs. I'm the kind of guy that would crawl out there if I couldn't walk I can't turn down money like that. I'm sure not going to waste it on some of the stuff I've seen on CZcams.
No I did like the video where they took a poncho and put tent poles in it to make it into a tent. I think I got both poles for under $20. Now that's ultra light. I carry a military Poncho anyway all I have to do is put the poles together set it up and I got rain cover I can cut four y branches and have a canopy however tall I want to make it. Thought about cutting some plastic like painters plastic. Maybe three or four feet tall and long enough to go all the way around the tent. That stuff would roll up really small. I can reinforce the edges with Gorilla Tape placing grommets in the appropriate positions which is usually just a small washer with Gorilla Tape going over it. It'll hold it down and it'll hold it up. And if I use clear at least on one side and maybe a mylar blanket on the other cut to the appropriate size it would be like a super shelter for winter time. Just an idea I've been toying with.
The mods are to make one's self feel comfortable. My thought is that TieDye would do this regardless the weight of the tent. The durston xmid isn't an expensive ultralight tent, but just 240 dollars. It is the Pro version that is expensive over 500.
Yep, making things more user friendly for me makes my camping and hiking experience even better!
@@MtnWanderer-TieDye- many people pack ultralight so that they can take other comfort gear and not being overloaded. I personally do not like putting a weight on what is ultralight, but rather it being just a mindset to cut weight. Previously