Sierra Designs High Route Tent 1FL - Pitching Instructions
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- The Sierra Designs High Route Tent, designed to the specifications of National Geographic “Adventurer of the Year” Andrew Skurka, has a unique but straightforward pitch. With some practice, setup should take no more than five minutes for the fly and inner tent; less time is needed to set up just one of its pieces.
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Written instructions with more photos, by Andrew Skurka, goo.gl/MPAFNn.
To pitch the High Route, the fly is erected first, and the inner tent clips in afterwards. Among other benefits, this prevents rain from soaking the inside of your tent before you can get the fly over it.
For a catalog-worthy pitch, it’s critical that the footprint corners of the rectangular fly be staked out at perfect 90-degree angles. If one corner is 110 degrees and another corner is 80 degrees, the tension lines will be wonky. The guylines should be tensioned at 45 degrees off the corners, although 35-60 degrees is probably okay.
After staking out the corners, insert the trekking poles and tension the ridgeline using the guylines. The tie-outs should be paraellel to the ridgeline.
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Headed out on a solo 7 day appalacian trail hike tomorrow with my new High Route. Very excited
Good geometry lesson on how to stake out and pitch the tent!
This is a great looking design.
Nice tent.....! and nice clear audio, not too loud..
My tent didn't come with stakes (I had to use stakes from another tent and bought some others at REI)! A resale? I tried it on a short REI guided overnight hike. I'd set my high route tent up in the back yard, so the overnight was my second time. I managed it ok both times, though somewhat awkward (I know it would get easier). Then the problems - we were camped on rocky soil and getting tent stakes into that was a real problem. Rocks were a decent back up. That night (early April in Maryland - got down to about 30 degrees with a wind) was cold, and because the tent is two separate pieces the wind came right in under the tent. My other problem is I am 6'6" and I barely fit in the thing. My head and feet were pushed into the mosquito net at both ends. I wouldn't much want to spend a day or two out on the trail in the rain in this thing. (the cold problem was worse because I didn't have a heavy enough bag - not the tent's fault). I like the idea of the tent, but so far like the idea better than the reality. I may get myself a two person free standing tent with poles and just deal with the extra weight for packing when I do my 250 mile through hike later in the summer.
Like this design. Reminiscent of the Tarptent stratospire without the struts on two corners.
It is one of three shelters I know of with a sleeping position diagonal to the trekking pole-supported ridgeline. Similarities were addressed here, #5, andrewskurka.com/2016/sierra-designs-high-route-tent-imperfections/
Planning on hiking the JMT, would like to see a video of setting up the tent in a rocky area, where stakes may not be able to be used.
The setup is no different. Just make sure you have long guylines and follow this system, per andrewskurka.com/2016/guyline-tension-system-backpacking-tents-tarps-hammocks/. If you can't get a stake into the ground, I recommend wrapping the line around a stick and putting a large rock on top of the stick. I backpack every year in the High Sierra (I guide trips in SEKI) and use this shelter and these guylines with great success.
Am hoping this is same for my High Route 3000 1P Tent as I can't see another video for that? Thanks!
Excellent Andrew. I just bought this tent. Couple questions: 1. What if your stakes eventually break or wear out, can you purchase a replacement set? Should I do that anyway?. 2. Can you use Black Diamond or Like ergo design trekking poles which have an angled handgrip or only use trekking poles with handgrips that are perfectly vertical and not angled?
Is the Inner just a Mesh / Insect barrier OR an Inner proper. ie a thermal bridge? -
What is the minimum length needed for poles?
I like your Salomons! Which model are they? Thanks. Congratulations!
OUTSIDE OF wet conditions, is it feasible to have the inner nest permanently attached to the fly and erect them 'as a oner' ?
Yes, but you might struggle to get the tension right, because the inner will be weighing on the fly.
Woohoo just bought one!
Sell it to me
@@rvz77 how much would you pay. Never camped in
@@seanb1321 would you do $150?
Your thoughts
So no tears or holes?
@@rvz77 never camped. I will pass on $150
@@seanb1321 what is your reasonable offer?
It was $300 new few years ago.
I bought the new blue one, but wanted the red for a roomier tent ⛺
If you don't want to sell, at least use it and enjoy.
Take care
Looks great but I'm unable to find it available. Has it been discontinued already or is inventory not meeting demand?
Thanks
We will have more inventory again in March I think.
Mid-October, 2019 and I just purchased one on Amazon for $224. I read that SD is coming out with a redesign of this tent--in blue. Smaller; a little lighter. True?
Nice
Inner tent all mesh. Mostly 3 season or less. Well thought out nevertheless. How much??? I don't suppose that the poles are included
It's a 3+ season tent. I've had it in 40 mph winds and in multiple snowstorms in Colorado (up to 6 inches overnight).
MSRP is listed on SD's product page.
Andrew Skurka 40mph wind is rather tame. If a tent can't handle a good gust of around 80mph which is fairly common in the mountains and more especially so on a ridge in March or November, the tent will be damaged and on the road to failure. I've seen 2 feet of snow on thanksgiving and 4 feet of snow in late March from single storms respectively. Exceptional maybe but this was in eastern Pennsylvania not Colorado. I wouldn't want to be lying down next to a wall of snow piled high alongside a pup tent pushing in on me.
Not everyone knows which are good and bad places to pitch a tent. I would feel uneasy if a pup tent I designed was labeled 3+ for marketing purposes just to sell more tents was used by a young novice in March or even late February because they thought it safe and lead to a disaster.
You're more or less an expert in outdoor type sport activities. Not everyone who buys your tent will be.
It's easy to overstate. It's harder to over make! :)
Shadow...40 mph wind is not "rather tame" for what most people camp in. This tent could EASILY suffice in calm winter conditions, and checking the weather would ensure that for almost any trip less than three days. And you are either bullshitting about 80 mph winds in PA (likely) or you were (ignorantly) on an exposed face during the storm of the century.