Tent for two around the world, looking for advice
 

Hi Hubb
My girlfriend and I are planning a 6-12 month trip next year and I am starting to look at gear etc.

One of the bigger investments is the tent, we are right now thinking of buying a
MSR Mutha Hubba NX 3-Person Tent. My thoughts:

- 3 person, so we have room for gear in the dry and a bit more room if we need to spend a day in the tent.
- The Mutha Hubba is light
- Fair price

Do any of you have experience with the tent or any other good recommendations for tents in the same price class?

Thanks bier

Vango Omega 350 is heavier but with much more space for keeping kit out of the weather.

MSR is good gear though.

MSR makes good stuff. But my wife and I opted for a Vaude Space 3P. The main reasons were: It pitches outer first (or all-at-once) which is more convenient in the rain. The doors are on the sides, which we prefer for crawling in and out. And the porch areas are a more convenient shape to store wet gear.

I am in similar situation. I have a number of backpacking tents that I've used for motocamping (and backpacking), but the only one large enough for our planned 9+ month trip is old and I don't trust it for such a long haul. Agree MSR makes good equipment, and so does Big Agnes, as well as REI. But I'm curious about opinions of the motorcycle-centric Redverz Atacama. I see lots of them in pics of motorcycle rallies, but is it really a good tent for prolonged overland adventure touring?


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No why? I used a $50 Texel 3 tent untill the zipper broke after sleeping in it every day for two years all the way around africa http://adventure-travel-experience.d...en_transafrika

Now i bought the next bigger version texel 4 of the same iglutent again and used it to travel with my girlfriend. The most importend thing is it can stand without pegs: Tents - Which are the best tents to travel?

Hi, I was looking for a long time. I chose Coleman Tatra 3 and I think it was an excellent choice. I recommend it!

After many quality tents including Exped Mira III, Exped Mira II, Vaude Argon, Vaude Hogan... my current is a MSR Hubba Hubba HP (2 man tent) for solo use which together with sleeping mat and sleeping bag only takes up half of a pannier. When I'm with someone else I can attach the MSR gear shed to take wet clothes and the like. But if there's two of you all the time, I agree it's better to get a three-person tent.

As ta-rider writes, the next point is whether the tent is freestanding so it can be pitched on rocky ground, on sandy ground, or even on a concrete/tile base near a building. For me this is far more important than whether it pitches outer first. And yes, the MSR Mutha Hubba is freestanding. Another advantage is that you can erect the frame and inner tent, then move the whole caboodle in one hand to position it exactly where you want it.

Many of the supposedly three season tents use lightweight mesh on the inner tent to both save costs and also weight, but if there's any wind blowing you can get a jetstream through the tent. So unless you are going to be mainly in warm areas, I would suggest the MSR Mutha Hubba HP tent which has less mesh, more solid fabric (currrently £380.78 on Amazon UK).

But whichever you get—the NX or the HP—the Mutha Hubba has loads of headroom which is important when you're trying to get out of/into riding gear and makes it feel very roomy. I don't think the HP has the 'stay-dry' doors of the NX.

I would strongly recommend you get a 'gear loft' (£28) so you can place important stuff like torch, phone, etc at roof level so they are easily found. Consider buying a footprint designed for the tent (£48). You can also get groundsheet 'mudmat 1' (£20) for each of the vestibule areas.

Will it fit into your panniers? You can pack the poles, the inner tent, the outer tent and the footprint separately.

Some weblinks
https://www.alloutdoor.co.uk/tents/tents-/
https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co...all-tents-c148
http://www.exped.com/international/e...category/tents

My wife and I are using an Exped Venus iii on our RTW trip. We had a few issues with the zips on our first one. Exped customer care was excellent and we got a warranty replacement. Zips are now bigger and no further issues.

We have a complete list of our camping kit here Bike and Kit Lists - Two Brits and a Triumph Tiger 800 Round The World

We also have a few reviews up of our stuff (been on the road since June 2014) here Gear Reviews - Two Brits and a Triumph Tiger 800 Round The World

Saludos
Steve and Janette in Colombia
Tiger 800 RTW - Two Brits and a Triumph Tiger 800 Round The World

Are you still in Colombia? I’ve been living there for almost three years. Let me know if I can help



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I have a Exped Orion III and this is a freestanding design which makes pitching on rocky ground easier than needing to stake out the entire tent all the time. You should stake out a tent anyway where possible, but a freestanding design makes life a bit easier. This is my second Exped tent and for the money a most excellent product. My previous model tent was the Exped Andromeda which they don't make anymore, and it was a bomb shelter too.
I am a solo camper and just like to have the extra room for my gear and when the weather is bad it feels less claustrophobic with the yellow interior.. YMMV

I am taking the Nature Hike Cloud Peak 2 tent on my upcoming trip across USA and down into Central and South America in the coming few months.

I researched for a long ass time, and I think this tent was the perfect combination of price- to weight-to volume- to build quality/construction.

Its 4 season, freestanding (this is important), with enough ventilation for hot and humid summers, enough insulation for extremely cold temperatures, and enough support for extremely windy weather. It also has covers to store your stuff away under the tent and away from the rain.

I have field tested it on a 2 week trip, and can attest to the build quality. Only annoyances are you have to crawl on your knees to set up the internal tent structure.

Lol my tent looks very similar to yours! But at 2/3 the capacity, 1/4 the price and 1/2(ish) the weight :|.

I bought mine for $170.

https://www.amazon.com/Naturehike-Cl.../dp/B07416CWCH

Once I bought my single pole, Golite Hex 3 tipi-style tent back in 2006 and sampled the delights of tent s-p-a-c-e, ease of erection:innocent: and so many other benefits, my North Face geodesic never got another outing and has since been given away. Golite are not longer around, but the same people formed a new company called 'My Trail Company' and the tents are pretty much just tweaked versions of the Hex 3. There are other companies that sell similar pyramid tents at better prices, such as Luxe, but I've not needed to buy one as my Golite has been leak proof and hardy, withstanding around 14, month long, camping tours in all weathers. It's super light and packs small too, so doesn't take up much room in my pannier.

The headroom and living space these tents give is just incomparable to other tent designs. And there's nothing worse than pulling off the road cold and wet, fiddling around with tent rods and then crawling around the tent on all fours dripping water everywhere. Oh, I'm sorry, there is something worse--2 people doing it and then spending the next week doing it while they wait for the rain to abate:rain:

Looks like a good deal. The Exped is a 4 season tent however.
Apples to apples bier

Exactly. If you don't need an all-weather (four season) tent there's no reason to spend far more money for something heavier and (often) more work to set up. And for motorcycle touring we'll seldom need all-weather capability, which by definition includes usability in high winds, heavy snow or rain, and combinations of all three.

I've been out in three season tents in high winds, by which I mean hurricane force--say, 75mph/125kph and up. They collapse, sometimes accompanied by broken poles and torn fabric, and they admit massive amounts of whatever is falling out of the sky at the time--dust, rain, snow. It's worth noting that under those sorts of conditions, everything needs to be securely staked down anyway, so that nifty "self-supporting" feature is irrelevant. One windy night in Torres del Paine, my tent and only a few others remained standing in the morning; I slept soundly.

I've also been out in three season tents in heavy snow; they collapse surprisingly easily when snow accumulates on them. Plus all that weight-saving mesh admits wind-driven snow in huge quantities, which is uncomfortable at best.

This seldom happens while motorcycle touring, because who rides around in such conditions? But I was on a bike in Torres del Paine, and that single night made me glad I carried a four season tent for the other 350+ nights of that particular trip. That was a single-person, four-season, 3lb/1.4kg Hilleberg, and it cost US$400 or so when I bought it almost two decades ago. It might not be right for everyone, but it's been right for me (so far).

Apples, yes.

Mark