The North Face Oval-25

What a great tent, but not much information or any reviews but one or two.

I picked this old bird up from a local Salvation Army for $5. It was a mess from poor storage and high mileage.

After giving it a bath and removing the duct tape from the hole in the fly and screen I sewed the screen and patched the fly hole. Rear door zipper was knackered and separating while zipping up, so the previous owner decided to sew all the way around the door to the tent body. This is an easy fix after taking all the thread out i simply took a pair of small needle-nosed vice grips and lightly pinched the rear of the zipper guide and all was fixed.

People need to know this trick when zipper guides get worn. It's a simple matter of tightening things back and your problem is solved. I have been given great condition tents at yard sales because the owners don't know how to fix this problem.

My tent has lots of dirt spots tiny specks of mildew, but all in all still in great working order, polyurethane coating is in great shape.. One of the small poles has a crack on two of the pole connection points. I may send it off to be fixed. I know NF won't honor their lifetime warranty like years ago, but so far it is holding fairly good considering its condition.

I haven't had it out in the rain yet, but had it in some cold windy conditions using my UCO candle lantern it knocked the condensation down to a nice dry climate. I can't seem to find much info on this NF model other than it was the smaller brother of the VE25, and it's built old school North Face.

If anyone has information please review this tent.

This is the tent I have and it's the only decent info that I have found:

https://zakthor.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/north-face-oval-25-tent/