User Review: Marmot Aeolos 2P

Marmot Aeolos 2P
Above: The current Aeolos 2P, which may differ slightly from the version reviewed.

Reviewed July 25, 2006 by Paul Spitalny

Rating:
Design: three-season freestanding dome
Sleeps: 2
Price Paid: $325

I used this tent one rather cool night (some frost) in early July in the North Cascades (Washington, State, USA). Here's what I found in terms of problems:

1) The rain fly touches the roof of the inner tent no matter how we tried to pitch it and tension it. Since the inner tent is mostly mosquito netting, it means that when moisture condenses on the inside surface of the rainfly it will drip into the tent. When we looked above us in the early AM we saw that the wet fly was indeed makin ghte inner tent ceiling wet. You would think the folks at Marmot would have put some attention into this type of detail for a tent that costs $325!

2) When you roll-up the rain fly entrance flaps there is a little ties strap where you can keep the rain fly rolled-up. But, since the strap is located so far to one side of the tent opening it means that even if you roll-up the entrance flap and tie it with the tie strap that the other end falls to the ground. That meant, in our case, that you would always brushup against the rain fly as you went in and out of the tent. In the wee hours of the AM leaving the tent to relieve ourselves it meant that the condensation on the fly got all over us and we got wet.

3) Since the inner tent is mostly made of mosquito netting it means that it there is any wind (and there was the night I used this tent) it goes straight through the tent, which makes for a chilly evening.

My conclusion was to return the tent. Although the tent is very roomy, it got us wet on a clear rainless night, not a very imporssive tent. It seems like the tent-designer folks at Marmot might not have actually used the tent at all!

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