User Review: REI Quarter Dome UL

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February 6, 2006

ministercreek
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Rating:
Design: three-season wedge dome
Sleeps: 1
Ease of Setup: quick and simple pitching!
Weight: 4.6 lbs (packaged)
Price Paid: $209

I purchased this tent today while browsing at my local REI Co-op in Madison (Wisconsin) this afternoon. I was NOT tent shopping I might add.

I seen one of these Quarter Domes set up on the floor as a display model and immediately this tent caught my eye. Looked as it would be the perfect one-person tent, though it is rated a two-person model (maybe really tiny people perhaps!!!).

I was amazed how light this tent weighed! Enough height for me to sit up comfortably (40"). The feature I liked most about this tent it is east to enter/exit unlike my ALPS Mountaineering Taurus 1.0, which I literally need to get on the ground to crawl in. The tent features two doors and stake-out vestibules.

I repeat this is actually a ONE-PERSON tent--sorry REI to disagree with you on this one thing! :)

Can't wait to use it this coming spring down in the Missouri Ozarks!