User Review: Jack Wolfskin Mistral

Reviewed June 30, 2009 by High Water Mark

Rating:
Design: four season freestanding dome
Sleeps: 4
Ease of Setup: easy
Weight: not a two person backpacking tent
Price Paid: $280

Very well designed tent, a lot of bells and whistles, after using it about 50 times I really like it a lot. Nice interior space for two people, can handle three ok, four people would leave little room for gear on the inside.

A lot of tie down anchors in the fly, with velcro tabs on the under side that can lock around the tent poles, and three tent poles, so it can be secured very well in heaving wind. Probably not exactly an expedition level tent, but it can handle four seasons. The fly fabric is polyester, of an in-between weight, not the cheap thin stuff some manufactures use, but then not quite as strong as say North Face. It's possible to ventilate the tent really well.

Zippers slide very smoothly. Sets up quickly with tent pole sleeves (vs those pesky plastic clips that actually make a weaker structure).

The easiest way to feed the poles into the sleeves is to set the two rear corner tent stakes first (i.e., the stakes at the closed ends of the sleeves). Then as you start to slide the pole into the sleeve, gently pull the tent fabric tight against the far stake. This straightens out any folds in the tent fabric that could catch the pole as it's being pushed through the sleeve.

Same concept when taking the tent down; leave the far tent stakes in the ground, take the tips of poles out of the grommets to collapse the tent, then gently pull the tent fabric tight against the rear stakes to straighten the sleeve material and more easily slide the poles out.

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