hey guys Scott reekers here with Eastman's hunting journals and today I'm here to do a
review of the seek outside guardian and it's a two-person tent with a liner and a stove Jack
this is one of seek outside's new lightweight options and it is a fantastic option for two
people who want a stove who want to be able to keep warm and have a liner and so one of
the first things that you'll notice right out of the box is that it comes with two poles instead
of one seek outside is known for their TP style tents well now we're looking at this tent and it
is not a TP style per se it's um I'm going to have more of that standard tent look that where it lays
out you've got two long walls so wind will be a consideration where you pitch this you want
to make sure you're not going to get slabsided that's a big deal but make sure that you look
at this and you understand that huh this is you could make this pretty tall but you can adjust
right here get a little shorter depending on your circumstances I'm intentionally going to
pitch it right here on a little bit of uneven ground because let's be honest whoever has an
actual 100 percent level spot to pitch your tent so next up you will notice that this comes
in two different bags so this is your outer shell this is your nest now you can set these
up separately where you just bring this along and you've got a single wall shelter it's even got the
stove jack so you can use that there but if you bring this along for places that have a lot of
bugs for places that have a lot of moisture I would highly recommend it this particular trip
that I have been on where I've gotten hammered by rain for the last two days even though it's sunny
down here I would definitely encourage you to bring this nest along that is one of the battles
that we fought because I'm actually comparing this right now side by side to the seek outside
Cimarron that we had along I've used the Cimarron for years it's my go-to shelter however the one
weakness is that it's a single wall and so you can get some condensation this Nest right here
alone will take care of those condensation issues for you seek outside is known for their pyramid
style shelters however this is not a pyramid style shelter this is going to look a little
bit more like a standard tent you're not going to see all the zipper options that you see on other
tents however on this tent you will see that it looks a little bit more like a standard shelter
now I'm going to go go one step further here when we look at this and show you what I mean
here is the tent pole that you use for the seek outside Guardian however there's not one
but there are actually two of these one on each end then you've got vestibules on each end so this
is a this is a great shelter when you've got gear for two people on both sides it's a great option
when you're going lightweight so you can also adjust your pull height to get what you want out
of this this is a modular system so one of the things that work that that will be required is take a
little bit of time spend some time prepping and setting it up set it up in your yard a few times
so you can get the pitches right how you want to the flatter you can get it the closer you're
going to be able to get all your lines to the ground now one thing to always remember is that
you can adjust and get closer on one side lowering your lowering your pull that's one way of doing it
another way is you pull out your lines and you get it closer but we're in some hot mo or we're humid
muggy weather I wouldn't say hot we're in the 40 degrees here it's been raining for two days so
one thing you'll notice is that the the material is very soft so when you pitch it in dry weather
it's going to be real tight it's not going to have any lines in it and then all of a sudden
you'll come back after you get some condensation inside of it and it'll be loose like this but you
you fix that by guying it out all the way so you can use these little loops up here guide
out run it over to a tree that works real good you can also guy it out down in places like this
tighten it up sometimes you have to adjust your bottom though when you guy it out like that you'll
get it loose just some things to consider one thing to also remember is that we have
over here this string system and so the beauty of the string system is that it is lighter than
a zipper so that cuts down on the weight of the shelter when you say compare it to a traditional
double vestibule tent now the next piece that comes comes in mind with that is I got rained
on for the last two days it's miserable and so one of the things that happens over time is your
zippers wear the more you use a zipper up down up down up down well the problem that you eventually
end up is that that creates little tiny gaps in the zipper and wear points those wear points turn
into leaks in wet weather so the best thing that you can do when that when you have that happen
if you don't like that if you don't like your zippers leaking inside your single wall tent well
this string system may be the answer for you and so this comes up right here you can open this up
the one thing to note when you when you look at this is you pull this up and guess what you
now have ventilation all the way through so I could highly recommend this during the summer
like those August scouting trips that's going to be when I really take this shelter and like get
to know it really spend some time with it but the other part for the first time in years I've had
issues with a bug when I went on a scouting trip in August I had ants didn't know the ant hole was
there ant hole actually ended up inside my tent it was really nice having this liner would have
prevented that ant situation now if you also come here there were some grasshoppers they
kind of liked me in that August trip that was kind of annoying they were not my friends but
you can see you've got two sets of zippers here so you can go from either direction
so there's plenty of space inside for two people now I would recommend that if you're going to
bring a lot of gear like on this trip with llamas that I've got if you're going to bring a lot of
gear you're going to probably want to bring some extra space some extra covering because like I
had I had probably more gear than would have fit in here so just for a comparison's sake we could
fit it all inside the Cimaron however this would have been a little bit tighter and that was mostly
because of head space and headspace and then the dead space that's out on the edges so you're gonna
have a little less dead space when you compare this say to a Cimarron however when I review
something I want to give good comparables so this is going to be a great shelter also in wet weather
because of the because you've got the liner inside you're not going to get dripped on nearly as much
the condensation that happens with a single wall shelter is not going to be nearly the issue now
again you can guy out right here get it a little bit tighter but then you have to adjust your pitch
on bottom one of of the things with these type of shelters is always adjusting your pitch till you
get it just right you may have to actually take a day day and a half to do that sometimes when
you're in the high country because every single time you pitch a tent it's 100 different so that's
something to bear in mind but again you can guy it out you can also if you have trees around you
can also skip the entire pole and you can pitch it using just these loops now it's a little bit
tougher to do it's a little bit more challenging but it is possible to do so if that's something
that you want to be an uber ounce counter and don't want to use the lightweight carbon
fiber poles I would encourage you to do that so there you go there are guy out loops all over
this so you can guy out wherever you would like plenty of airflow you can also put in the stove
so we've got the stove jack over there I will make sure that we post on social media us using
this later with the stove jack and some later later season situations so be watching for that
thanks for coming along on this review of the seek outside Guardian two-person
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