Alaskan Guide Model Geodesic 4-Person Tent

We’ve had great success with the Cabela’s Alaskan Guide Geodesics. The smaller (four-person) is 15 years old, gets used 10 or more times a summer and (aside from pine tar on the under-side) looks brand new. We’re in the PNW, so we know it’s still keeping the rain out. Getting a little older now, so bought the 8-person last year so we could stand up in it. Quality of the new one looks just as good as our old one.

I have both the four and eight person versions of this tent. I’ve been camping in the PNW for decades and they’ve taken everything Nature has thrown at them.

Mine finally gave up after a decade, or I would do the same. We car camp, so weight isn’t a worry and the Cabela’s Outfitter geodesic tents have been rock solid. We had to get a bigger one as our family grew, but the little one works great for the teenagers now and I love being able to actually stand up in the big one.

I don’t really need the duty cycle of the Outfitter tents either, but after a week or so hunting in the rain of the coastal Cascades it’s really, really, nice to come home to a 100% dry tent. It also absolutely ensures that my Wife will never get the opportunity to bitch about a leaky tent. In some situations, overkill is worth the price :)

I have the Cabela’s Alaskan Guide tent in four and eight person sizes. Had the small one for over 15 years and it still looks and functions like new. Got the bigger one two years ago because I wanted something big enough to stand up in. It’s at the higher end of your price range, but I couldn’t recommend them higher. The geodesic setup will put up with wind no problem. I’m in PNW, so I know they handle heavy rain. We camp at least 10 times a year, so they’ve been put to heavier use.

Our Cabela’s tent has been great in the wind but I don’t think they make it anymore. Is geodesic and has six poles instead of four which definitely helps with structural integrity and has a lot of ties for guy lines.

I have a 4 season Cabelas dome tent. I had a stove pipe access added afterwards. It holds snow well and when the snow slides down to the ground it presses inward. This is the real test of 3 season to 4 season. 3 season tents will bulge and flex. Poles break or release causing problems. I had 2 feet of snow fall over night a few years ago. I didn’t have any issues. All I had to do was go shovel a bit of snow off the sides. My EZcube tent would have collapsed at 6 inches of snow. It is my favorite 3 season tent. I’m 6-5. So I can stand up and get dressed easily. But for rain or snow. It’s useless.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X\_GeSOALzzs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_GeSOALzzs) This is a link to a youtube video if you want to see the best tent in the world. The Cabela Alaskan Guide. I was lucky enough to find one used almost brand new, from a woman whose husband died and was selling it. I can testify it will indeed stand up to an eighty mile an hour wind. I survived a storm in one during a northeaster on a small island with 70 to 85 mile an hour winds in the icy rain and cold. Not one drop of rain came inside. It is not small or packable, but it is one thing, a beast and the best tent I have ever owned. I have camped twice in the cold with the tent, once next to a frozen lake. I had a Buddy Heater with me. The temperature dropped to 24 F that night. I was too hot. It is the kind of tent designed for long term hunters in Alaska. Truly amazing. Edit: Just wanted to add. The tent in the video is the one I have. Mine I believe is an older model as the fly has a snow skirt on my tent that you can bury in the snow, the one in the video doesn't have that feature. Mine also has three ground sheets, the bathtub tent floor, an additional interior floor and a larger outer floor, plus a separate floorless vestibule for a woodstove and heated kitchen separate from the sleeping area.

Yep Alaska Guide Tent is the model we have. 4 person for two of us.

Same here. The Cabela’s alaskan guide tents are great, but heavy. Definitely wouldn’t want to backpack with one. I’ve got a North Face, can’t remember the name but it’s their version of the rei half dome. Bought it used in the early 2000s and it’s still going strong.

I like my Cabela Alaskan Guide...I got it with the same reasoning in mind. The thing is solid.

Ive appreciated this discussion. We were camping in PA this weekend, and for 20 years we’ve sworn by the Cabela’s Alaskan Guide done tents. My parents had one for a long time, and my family bought us one when our first child was born. It lasted us over 15 years, so when it was time to replace it, we got another one. It lasted less than 1/2 that, and Friday night we discovered the rain fly was leaking like crazy. So now I get to decide whether to try to apply a rain proofing coating or go with an REI tent…