The North Face - Stormbreak 2
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"it ’s held up through a thunderstorm and very heavy wind and rain with no leaks."
"Water-resistant bathtub floor with taped seams."
"I was always impressed by the waterproofing."
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"It's quick to set up."
"Utilizes clips instead of sleeves."
"Color coded tabs so there’s no guesswork with the fly"
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"North Face Stormbreak is a very old, reliable tent, but uses polyester, so it weighs around 3 kilos. ... You can easily find a tent with the same specs, much better material for half the price and would weigh around 2 kilos."
"It's heavy at 5.5lbs /2.6kilos range."
"It’s a bit heavy at almost 6lbs"
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"I have a North Face tent that I thought was a great find, just to find out it's so tiny inside it annoys me (I think it is only around 80")."
"But they’re cramped"
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"and you get wet every time you run any body part along the wall."
"Airflow on it sucks"
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"and you get wet every time you run any body part along the wall."
"Airflow on it sucks"
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"North Face Stormbreak is a very old, reliable tent, but uses polyester, so it weighs around 3 kilos. ... You can easily find a tent with the same specs, much better material for half the price and would weigh around 2 kilos."
Able_Room_9052 1.0I like my North Face Stormbreak 2 I would recommend it to anyone https://preview.redd.it/4oq2hrhxzotf1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ed4ffa3316458bd3f6b6e0fc59ac95e18dfa20b
Careless-Weather892 1.0I have The North Face Stormbreak 2. Not super light but it’s held up through a thunderstorm and very heavy wind and rain with no leaks.
DarthTempi 1.0we have the stormbreak 2 and love it. if we didn't have a dog and need a three person tent now it would probably what we stayed with for the foreseeable future
flobbley 1.0I'm also own a NF stormbreak 1 and a stormbreak 2. I love my stormbreak 1, it is small (cozy and easy to find a place to pitch) and very sturdy. The downsides are that it's small and very sturdy (aka heavy), my head touches the top when I sit straight up in the tent and it weighs roughly 3.3 lbs which is not that much less than a lot of budget 2 person tents. I would never even consider taking the stormbreak 2 backpacking.
Illustrious-Soup9055 1.0Storm break 2 fits me as a 6”5 guy
marktthemailman 1.0My wife and I backpacked all through Africa with a stormbreak2. I carried it for 7 months but that wasn’t all day hiking - it was buses and trucks and so normally an hour or two of walking each day to and from bus stations etc. Very durable but I recommend the footprint to protect the base. Held up well in rain. We are from NZ and used it plenty after Africa until the seams gave up after about 3-4 years of heavy use. Last few years we have just been car camping or staying in NZ backcountry huts so I haven’t replaced my hiking tent. But when I do finally get a new tent for hiking in NZ I would go with something lighter. I think storm break is fine if you are mostly on buses etc but if you are using it for multi day hikes you might want something lighter. Having said that the lighter tents seem to be way more expensive…in NZ at least
NeighborhoodOk2495 1.0Look at the TheNorthFace Stormbreak 2. It's cheap spacious, and quite wind resistant.
For your budget I don't think you can get a better tent, the naturhike one will most likely collapse under wind and OneTigris, as far as I am concerned, aren't making good quality tents. REI halfdome might be as strong as the StormBreak I simply never saw it or tested it myself.
no-weed420 1.0Took my stormbreak 2 tent out for the 2nd time. The pole snapped in 2 places and ripped my rainfly. Be gentle with it.
OkFriend1520 1.0I have a Durston X-Mid 1p (solid), two North Face Storm Breaks (1 and 2 person), and an inexpensive Underwood Aggregator 1 person trekking pole tent I got for $50 on Amazon. It's even less now - $40\~. A friend and I did a 50\~ mile section hike last year, and he had a 6# Eureka tent. I lent him my Aggregator, which requires 1 trekking pole and 5 stakes, and he \*loved\* it! It's a single-wall, but thicker sil-poly, 2.5#, and I seam sealed every possible seam on that tent, AND sprayed it with Kiwi Camp-Dry. There's a guy who did a great comprehensive YouTube video on the Aggregator, noting that it is an inexpensive tent, but still a good value and tents like this have a valid place in the backpacking world.
Ok_Trip4925 1.0I have a 6 person tent that has the whole quick set up package. It is super easy to put up, a matter of seconds, but things started breaking after several uses. If you plan on camping in the backwoods you best believe you don't want to have problems with your tent when you are miles from anything and it's raining. I use the North Face Stormbreak 2, not super expensive, kinda heavy, but it is a very reliable and sturdy yent