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We married two of our favorite tents, the Electron and the Reverse Combi. The Electron RC 2 upgrades with our Spider Hub that keeps all poles (main and ridge) locked in place. Reverse Combi Technology steepens the walls and expands usable interior volume. Two doors and two vestibules (14 and 10 square feet) house gear-loaded backpackers with room to spare. The Electron RC also comes with a free Accessory Package ($60 value).
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Technical Details
- Two-person, three-season tent with two doors and two vestibules for easy entry/exit- Reverse Combi Technology creates steeper walls and nearly 50 percent more space
- Free accessory package with coffee sling, fast-pack footprint, and portable attic
- 33 square feet of interior space; vestibule area measures 14 + 10 square feet
- Measures 121 x 40 x 87 inches (W x H x D) with fly; trail weight of 5 pounds 7 ounces
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By K. Brown
I bought this tent two years ago and it remains one of my favorite pieces of gear. I've taken it on two 6 day trips through the wind rivers in Wyoming. One six day trip through slot canyons in Southern Utah and several weekend trips all over Utah. I don't have a single negative thing to say about this tent, but here are some things that I have loved that have made my backpacking buddies jealous.
-Doors on both sides of the tent is a must for a two man tent.
-Vestibules are large enough to fit the gear of two backpackers.
-overhead storage space and hanging cup holders (perfect for your nalgene)
-Extremely sturdy when everything is staked in
-For clear warm weather you can ditch the fly and get the "under the stars view" without the bugs
-the foot print is light weight and a perfect fit.
-Two years and lots of use and not a single defect, no tares, no rips, not zipper failures
-I've used it in heavy rain with no leakage
-Extremely easy to pitch,(on one occasion I was caught in heavy rain before getting set up. I was able to throw myself and my gear and the rest of the tent under the fly. From that position I was easily able to set up the tent in the rain while keeping dry.
I've been extremely impressed with this tent. A good pad and sleeping bag should resolve any temperature complaints.
By J. S. Radford (Woodside, CA USA)
"Sahara" Designs is what should be the label on this tent, though in that environment, it would be a disaster in a sandstorm since the netting cannot be closed up at all, as is very normal for almost any other tent. The tent is 85% net and no tent wall fabric to zip over this netting if needed. The rainfly shelters but does not come close to sealing the netting in case of significant wind (whether dusty-warm or frigid).
This is a cute, easy-to-pitch, warm weather tent. Period.
It is much like sleeping under the stars ... the Electron is NOT a 3-season Mountain tent unless you take care to take a warmer sleeping bag in summer. It is TOO well ventilated, even with the fly attached. It is COLD in a typical Sierra night in mid-August (!) at altitude (main forest areas and higher). I just about froze in my summer bag in this tent at 9400 feet in a lodgepole forest with the fly attached and gentle breezes at night. I carefully chose a dry spot away from wetness and reasonably sheltered. I wished I'd brought my heavy sleeping bag. I had to put on most of my clothes and only one pair of wool socks wasn't enough, eventually.
The tent afforded almost no increase in temperature and let the breezes flow all night (it got down to 38 degrees, which is fairly typical in Sierras in the height of summer). There were very light breezes but not even enough to make any sound of wind. Just down-mountain flow.
BUT, the tent can be adjusted if you snug down the rainfly on all sides. That makes it pitch sloppier and it doesn't look as neat. Plus, of course, you lose the vestibules entirely. But that does pretty well solve the coolness problem.
GOOD POINTS:
- as close to sleeping under the stars as a tent can be short of being just a net tent.
- super well ventilated (ideal hot-weather-only tent)
- fast to pitch (something I really appreciate)
- tent alone about 3 pounds without fly (great if can leave fly home)
- lots of extras (nice ground cloth, cup holders and all sorts of light weight equipment holders for inside organization)
- lots of head room
- small footprint
- spacious vestibules
BAD POINTS:
- not even a 1-season tent in Mtns
- like sleeping under the stars, even with fly attached! - so take a much warmer bag than normal tent would require
- too short (I'm 5'9" and I barely fit - is OK but taller person would bump head and foot)
- too many zippers (main zippers will soon fail especially since they have to make an arc in order to open enough for entry). I've had MANY zippers fail in recent years, on pack, clothes, tents. I think zippers are too flimsy nowadays. This tent has LOTS of zippers and I fear they will fail in maybe 2-4 years and make the tent impossible to use (hard to fix). After only 4 days of use, I'm already having the rain fly zippers snag on adjacent fabric. These are the straight-line zippers and more robust than the main entry zippers. But the flap covering the zipper run too easily snags on the zipper.
- the main zippers are very light and are already starting to snag on the adjacent fabric and are already giving signs of difficulty in the curviest part of the zipper track. Most tents have curved zipper tracks but the Electron zipper track makes a more acute bend than most. Bad news, I think.
SO ... this thoughtfully made and clever tent has its specific use but beware that it is NOT at all a 3-season or even true 1-season Sierra tent unless you carry extra weight in sleeping bag and clothing. And take care with the zippers.
As for me, I think this will prove a useful tent but not as is. I'll add some velcro flaps to allow rapid tie-down of the vestiblues. I often need no fly (warm Big Sur trips). So it is great for that.
As for the zippers, maybe I can live with that. The tent basically has 4 different entry points. As one zipper fails, I can sew it off and use the next and the next. I don't need 4 entries, though as a 2-person tent, it would be nice to have at least 2 sides available. We'll see.
I'd still buy it again (got a good deal) but only because I can adapt it as noted. I think I'll get a lot of use out of it, but less adaptable people might find the problems unacceptable.
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