User Review: Marmot Thor 2P

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

Reviewed April 5, 2006 by Alphawolf

Rating:
Design: 2 person
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: Moderate
Weight: - 9 lbs
Price Paid: $375

I posted a review for this tent long ago but for some reason it did not make it here. I wanted to give you a true story about how strong this tent is. We had been on a fishing/hiking/camping trip in Alaska and caught in a snowstorm that left a foot of new snow on the ground by morning. During the night I used my wind gauge to measure a constant wind speed of 70 mph and gusts of 90 +. The Marmot tent while clearly buffed by the storm had no damage to it then next day.

Later on in the trip a bear came into camp and thought it smelled food in this tent apparently. The grizzly poked and prodded at the tent (luckily we were outside camp at the time watching the bear) but gave up after an hour. Upon inspection of the tent again no damage but a lot of bear drool.

On our way back and the last two days of the trip I was bit tired and not thinking clearly. I pitched the tent under a large spruce tree for the night. The next morning it was kind of windy and just as breakfast was over a large tree branch from the spruce snapped and fell directly on the tent. The tent was of course flattened as the branch fell from about 30 feet and weighted over 70 lbs. Had I been in the tent I likely would have been killed.

When we pulled the branch off the tent it sprung back to shape. There was no damage to any of the poles at all. There was no damage to the tent itself except for some tree sap on it. Bear drool, tree sap and no damage to the tent after all this.

This tent has paid for itself many times over on just this one trip. You cannot buy a more durable well built and put together tent. I would state that anyone saying otherwise clearly is not giving an honest review.