User Review: Stephenson's Warmlite Warmlite 3R

Reviewed July 31, 2005 by Nadine Jumelle

Rating: rated 5 of 5 stars
Design: 2 hoop non freestanding
Sleeps: 3
Ease of Setup: no brainer
Weight: 3.75 lbs
Price Paid: 675 USD

The 3R is awesome! We have used many tents over the years for long treks in the northern Canadian Rockies, typically we go for four to six weeks at at time. The tent is subjected to all sorts of crazy weather at any given time (hail storms, wind storms, rain storms, baking hot or freezing cold weather) and has held up perfectly.

We were a bit taken aback when we got the tent. Ours has one X-large door at one end and a regular door on the other, as well as two large side windows. It looks and feels dramatically different from any other tent I have used in 2+ decades.

Although the zips look skimpy, they perform perfectly well as long as you are semi-careful with your gear, which we are. The poles (pre-bent wide diameter) take some getting used to, but work very well and set up is FAST. We get into some pretty hairy weather in the northern Rockies where we need to set up quickly, and the tent is great that way.

Although we like the two doors, if we were to re-buy another Stephenson's tent we probably would get just the two reg doors, as the X-large door adds 2 oz of weight. We would still get the two large side windows though, awesome for views, ventilation etc.

The tent has NEVER leaked once we first seam sealed it. We appreciate the room of the 3R for two people, as we can stow lots of gear and still have our x-wide sleeping mats in there. Some condensation can form in the single wall cones as the ends of the tent, which we wipe down with a small square of packtowel before we tear down the tent. The condensation, as little as it is, has never made our stowed gear even damp, nor has it affected our sleeping bags. We also notice that the condensation is only really present when there are severe temp. changes (75F during the day 15F at night) as there it typically in the northern Rockies.

If the weather is crappy, you can adust the tension of the tent from the inside which is a real bonus. Over the last three years we noticed that one of the internal edges of the one of the large windows has frayed slightly, which we repaired with the silicone they supplied.

That's about it. We love the space, the light weight, the easy set up, the whole shebang. We would only replace this tent with another Stephenson's 3R exactly like it.

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