If just for car camping, then the suggested Coleman options, or Naturehike are all quite solid and cheap. If you want to backpack more, then grab North Face Stormbreak 3. Basically any dome tent with 2 crossing poles is easy to setup alone in like 5-10 minutes, with most of the energy spent on staking it out and tightening the guylines to make the fly taught.
Yes this is a great option. I have known people who have used that one and liked it! Imo it’s better to get a solid tent than a cheap tent that you absolutely requires you to have a good tarp setup every time you set up your tent. Depending on the contract, you might be somewhere for 2 days and then move. Don’t wanna NEED tarps in that case. Some places you can’t stake the tarp into the ground because there’s no soil just rocks. The storm breaker is good bc it’s not too high and has a full fly!! Unlike a lot of Canadian tire tents.
TLDR I think you’ll do well with the storm breaker. And get a decent mattress if you can. :) good luck on your first season!!
(And take advice from current planters who’ve been buying gear recently. Not ppl who haven’t planted and bought gear since the 90s lol. Ask your crew & crewboss as well)
I have the SB3 and I love it. The only knock is the size/weight, but if you’re keeping the rest of your kit light, storing your poles separate and using a compression stuff sack I think you’ve got a versatile, durable, easy to pitch tent.
If you do not need to stand up in the tent, I second the Stormbreak 3, the only other tent in the non light weight category of domed tents would be the Half Dome 3 by REI.
If you want to stand up the NF Wawona 4 is amazing… as is the REI BaseCamp 4.
I am pretty sure all of these tent will be on sale starting the 15th
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Spacious vestibule, strong in storms, but rainfly tricky solo.
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