While I don’t have experience with the specific tents you’re looking at, my advice would be to go with Hilleberg if price isn’t a differentiating factor. I’m sure either would work great for you - beautiful products from both companies.
I have a Slingfun Portal and I absolutely love it, but Hilleberg design is in their own class. I’ve spent probably 40-50 nights in a friend’s Hilleberg, vs. maybe 30 in my newer Slingfin, and the small details of the Hilleberg win the day. Slingfin’s design is top notch and they have great attention to detail, but Hilleberg takes the same care, attention, and no holds barred approach to quality but you know that every detail has been refined through an order of magnitude more cycles of use and abuse in absurd conditions. All the cool details that sound like a great idea on paper but don’t fully pan out in the real world have been weeded out by Hilleberg leaving an absurdly refined design.
A hardware product developer by trade, I can only aspire to that level of design quality.
Hilleberg is solid but damn those prices hurt. If you're not doing serious mountaineering the MSR Hubba series is way more reasonable and still built like a tank
if money isnt a thing then hilleberg, black label series, a staika model kept me and my guide protected and safe when it snowed 14 inches on a high country elk hunt, they are awesome, im from Tennessee we dont need best quality expedition tents generally even in the eastern mountains. but having used that one for a week i can say that one was great.
It's robust enough for the money and offers a spacious shelter and a comfortable night with very minimal condensation buildup. I have one and it's been fine in all the conditions I have used it in (nothing too extreme).
It's not mind blowing but the cost-feature ratio is hard to beat.
I have put thicker guy lines on mine and thicker elastic for the rain cover (usual YouTube mods) and then eliminated the zip issue by simply spraying it with silicone spray and working them all a few times before it's first outing.. I've never had an issue with them in 2 years.
I'm sure if you took it out in 70mph winds, it would suffer, but I've seen YouTubers with snapped hilleberg poles in high winds, every tent has the potential to fail!
But yeah, they're not 4 season, unless you cut the tent poles down to get the outer to sit lower to the floor. A great value tent all in all though. Theres a few pics/posts featuring it on my profile.
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