User Review: Sierra Designs Hyperlight AST

Sierra Designs Hyperlight AST
Above: The current Hyperlight AST, which may differ slightly from the version reviewed.

Reviewed August 17, 2007 by Nils Walter

Rating:
Sleeps: 2
Ease of Setup: Easy Enough
Weight: Haven't weighed it, but plenty light.
Price Paid: Don't remember

I realize that this tent has been out a while, but I have to put my two cents in here. I was a tent buying junkie until I bought this one, and I've used it so many times I couldn't even tell you. More than any of the others by far. Snow, rain, wind, one person, two person. I love the space around the shoulders that the shape provides, even with two people it feels like you have room to your side. It's long! One person, forget it, it's great.

Ventilation could be better with the fly on and closed up. Pitch the door into the wind, and add a 2nd zipper to it so you can leave it closed from the bottom but flapped down a bit from the top if you can't leave door opened.

Another thing that hardly anyone talks about is color. I have so many tents (at least 10 or 12) where the green or blue color just makes me feel like like I've woken up on a cloudy day, and opened up to find beautiful sunshine. The colors on this tents fly make you feel happy the moment you wake up in any weather. I will never buy a tent again that has a green or blue fly...as much fun as waking up in an emergency room or that drug store scene in Natural Born Killers when Woody H. is looking for snake venom antidote. Try any tent with the golden yellow colors found on this one, and try climbing back into that Eureka Zeus again- Ughh.

Have Fun!

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