This is the Luxe Hiking Gear Hexpeak standard size teepee and we're using it
to compare floorless shelters to your standard tent setups. Now this particular
setup comes in at 37 ounces including extra stakes a groundsheet
extra guideline and the compression bags. Now it's just under two and a half
pounds now that doesn't include the trekking pole that I use to set it up
the reason I don't include that is because you don't have to use a trekking
pole to set it up, you can use a trekking pole you can use a stick found on the
mountain cut to the right length, or you can run a Highline between two trees and
tie the top of your tepee off to that and then stake it out.
It's the adaptability of these floorless shelters, things like that that really
help them shine over a standard tent setup, this one has a four and a half
foot peak height my old shelter that I used which was a standard style tent, was
only 35 inches high and it only had a room for basically your sleeping bag, a
little bit of gear next to you and then your backpack and your boots and
everything like that stayed in the vestibule of the tent with this one you
can tell obviously, I've got a sleeping bag in there I've got a backpack in
there I've got a wood stove in there and I still have room inside of this, oh it
only saved me a little weight I probably tripled the amount of usable space that,
I have condensation it always comes up how do you battle the condensation the
number one way to fight condensation is ventilation underneath the shelter, as
you can tell it is gapped all the way around, what that does is allow airflow
underneath the shelter, now when I'm not in there when I'm not sleeping in there,
I have the door open what that's going to do is it's going to allow the inside
of the tent to stay dry, it's not going to trap in that moisture now of course
with leaving those gaps under there, the next question that comes up is bugs and
rodents, I'm sorry but if a mouse wants in your tent,
we'll chew his way through your tent your standard tent is not gonna stop
most rodents, any more than this is the plus site is is you might not have a
whole chute in the side of this when it's said and done, I don't have large
problems with like mosquitoes and such, if you're in an area that does putting a
bug bivy or an inner tent inside of these just a mesh inner is something you
can do very easily and it's going to automatically give you that standard
tent, fill but still give you the space of a teepee like this now it is going to
add weight how much just depends on the style and brand and type of bivvy you
decide to use or inner tent, now another thing I do want to show on this is just
the amount of space this is a two-person shelter, my old shelter was called the
two-person and there was no way for two people to fit in there, as you can see I
have room besides this sleeping bag, I've got room between my sleeping bag of my
backpack, I've got room behind my backpack, I've got room behind my stove,
one more really great thing with a setup like this is that wood stove, now the
wood stove adds four pounds to my overall setup, but it will let me heat my
shelter up to 80 degrees if I want ,now that only stays that temperature as long
as your fire stays burning, there's no insulation here other than your sleeping
bag, but when you're talking about four season tent sometimes they can wait in
excess of six pounds without any sort of stove, so you can have this stove you can
cook directly on it and with the shelter and the stove combined your about six
and a half pounds so obviously you can use a setup like this year-round,
and in multiple situations all it takes is planning ahead and knowing there
you're going in to see the Luxe Hexpeak standard size tipi, all we're doing
is we're looking at a size comparison as a solo shelter with a wood stove, now I
don't have my stove jack in there, but as you can see plenty of room you could
stack wood in there to keep it dry I've got a backpack sleeping Maddox leapin
pad, plenty room there in the corner and generally I would have a ground sheet in
there but I just didn't put it in for showing size and then you could
obviously, put your boots right there in front of the stove plenty of room for an
awesome backcountry heated shelter.