Dipole 2 DW

I think you are exactly describing tarptent dipole 2. It has little (8"?) end struts that provide extra usable room. It pitches in a tighter area than the durston. Take a look. I have two tarp tents, one is the dipole 1 Li. The Li is the dcf version, which will break your budget, the non-li is sil-poly (I think).

Many Tarptents have end struts (little poles that are ~2' tall) that go on the ends of the tent creating a lot more usable space. I'm 6'4, and wear size 13 shoe and fit in my dipole 1 Li with headroom to spare. I think the non-Li version is the same size. The dipole is a very similar tent to the durston, but I think it's a little heavier. I love my dipole. I also have an old version of the Protrail. It's a bit lighter, but not as roomy.

Dipole struts are a whopping 21 inches (they fold down to half the size for easy horizontal packing). Really nice feature that makes the very edge of the tent fully usable, unlike most pyramid tents where the edges are too shallow to do anything.

I'm 6'2" tall and have fallen in love with the Tarptent Dipole 2 DW/Li. Lightweight, plenty big, and very high-quality!

Im a happy Tarptent owner as well. I too, have the dyneema versions of both the Rainbow 1p and Dipole 2p. The Rainbow works great when hiking solo and a smaller footprint is needed. Plenty of length, width and height.

Tarptent DiPole or Rainbow models. Go to Tarptent website- contact and owner Henry Shires will respond to your questions (usually same day). Great tents, tall height/length/steep walls for maximum useable interior space, easy/quick setup, very storm worthy. I own both of the models above.

I’m rocking dipole and love it.

This is inaccurate. Ultralight does not mean making these sacrifices. There are well designed and poorly designed ultralight tents, though there are fewer and fewer poorly designed products given how few customers there are and the amount of research a typical consumer does. Modern fabrics have absurd strength for their weight. Modern ultralight tents can be as feature rich, weather resistant, well ventilated and roomy as a heavier tent. Compare the Xdome and Tarptent dipole with a heavier tent; there is no trade off other than cost (and in the case of the xdome, even that isn’t true).

same as below treeline. there is no such thing as a bad 3 season tent anymore at a budget of 200$+, unless you buy a festival garbage. it's more about the site selection. if you pitch any tent in front of a morning cold air niagara from the 1.5km high pass, it's not going to be comfortable night. But just hide behind a boulder or ground incline and it's fine. i wouldn't go for a pyramid though. it doesn't justify a footprint compared to alternative designs like Dipole, that have all the floor space, but hacked away unusable low-angle parts.