User Review: Eureka! K-2 XT

Eureka! K-2 XT
Above: The current K-2 XT, which may differ slightly from the version reviewed.

Reviewed December 6, 2006 by Bronz

Rating:
Design: Self-supporting four-season
Sleeps: 3
Ease of Setup: Moderate with one person, easy with two
Weight: 11
Price Paid: gift

Over the last few years I have owned a Coleman Inyo 2, a Eureka! Zeus 2EXO and a K-2 XT. I purchased the first two strictly on size being that gear size in a Wrangler is very important, but after getting the Coleman stolen in Costa Rica and the Zeus bouncing out of my Jeep, I decieded to go four-season and self-supporting. The terrain is conistantly different, one weekend I will be in sand and the next in trees. My blood has thinned out, living in the desert for the last 12 years and I get cold easly, plus my SlumberJack 20 degree bag sucks!(good size, bad advertising)

I have taken it up into the country 7 times now and have yet to be dissappointed, it is extremely warm, I have never had any condesation build up(though AZ is fairly dry), no workmanship issues and so forth, if this tent is stolen or lost I will get an exact replacement.

My only complaints are the overall size of the tent when bagged and weight. I do a lot of solo camping so adding 11 lbs to my pack plus the rest of the gear is quite fatiging. I suppose if you can divy up supplies then this would be a great tent for back packing, but solo backpacking it is not.

As far as condensation is concerned, I got stuck in a monsoon storm in Strawberry AZ in August of this year, and had to setup camp in a terrible down pour, there was at least 3 inches of water inside of the tent at the entrance going back about 4 feet. After I got it setup and I could feel my fingers again, I lit up my Coleman tent heater(which I almost left home) and setup the fire after the rain stopped, got in the tent an hour later and my bag, pack, ect were all dry. Turned off the heater and slept on top of my crappy SlumberJack bag, like a baby. Meanwhile my friends froze that night in their Walmart tents that setup before the rain.

If you are in the market for a four-season tent, this a great buy.

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