I have the Shangri-la 6-8, and it is the best group shelter ever. Dug out in the winter it is a palace. Love these tents. In winter, being able to easily sleep 6 in the snow for under 6 pounds is amazing.
I've had the shangri-la 5 for 4 years now - I put a stove jack in it and use for my early winter camping tent. I absolutely love this tent. Top quality for sure. Great choice and review.
The Outdoor Gear Review : Thanks Luke ! Great design for a 4 season tent to withstand the elements , with the high sloped sides that easily disperses rain and snow away from the top of the tent , to prevent it from weighing it down and collapsing onto you while sleeping ! Fantastic to always hear what others [ Luke ] may consider , their all-time favourite pieces of camping / hiking pieces of equipment to use year round !!! **Yes , this video reminds me of my very own all -time favourite piece of camping equipment , that I used to own was my Sears Canada Hillary 4 person tent ! Folks thinking yeah right ya'll got to be kidding us !!! Excellent tent that provided years of enjoyment that was easy to set-up , with very durable construction to withstand the elements during summertime camping …. Including staying waterproof even during the most torrential of downpours with hailstones the size of marbles , during one long weekend of non-stop rainstorms while camping in a Provincial Park !!! Incredibly when the rain had finally subsided after the 3 days , with the pathways turned into a flowing waterway 6 - 12 inches deep , there were expensive tents actually floating by on the pathway , long ago abandoned by their soaked as a wharf rodent owners ! lol Well lo & behold my Sears Canada Hillary 4 person tent was still dry inside , and furthermore was the only tent left standing while all the other tents had collapsed due to the rain , in our section of the campground in Balsam Lake Provincial Park , Ontario - Canada ! Date - August 1990** Thanks S.S.S./*Tom
Luke, I have a GoLite Den 2 tent, GoLite lightweight windbreaker, and Golite frameless backpack (Breeze model). The backpack has been my main pack for the past 17 years and still looks like new. Probably my favorite gear item.
Had a hex then changed to Shangri invested in a ook nest this leaves half the tent free to use as vestibule also has solid material half way up to stop drafts handy in the UK hills
I have same tent in Bamboo color, marketed as Big Agnes Yahmonite 3. I am going to purchase either a quarter or half best with ripstop sides to use so I can cook inside and block drafts in cooler weather.
I've enjoyed my Shangri-La 3 (wish I bought the five). You left out that the fly only option can be used without the pole by suspending it with the loop on the peak. That also affords much more open space without a pole in the middle. When car camping, I've used a couple of poles on the outside to hold it up and have tons of open space inside. Love the headroom!
Still my favourite after 10 years. I hike so only use the fly and a trekking pole with the extension That gives a 5'6" height and 58 Square feet of floor space. For a solo you're right it's a palace.
I want to buy this, and as of today, 4-19-2017, the MyTrailCo Pyramid 3 shelter (which I guess is the remastered version of this one) is on sale for only $239, but is only available in yellow. Probably shouldn't care that much, but I hate brightly colored outdoor equipment.
Great reviews. I'm in between this and the Snugpak Scorpions 2. I am in the military going through all 4 seasons. Would like something waterproof, has the mesh for air flow, easy set up/tear down and that can fit 2 people. Basically myself and my pack/gear. What would you recommend?
I have used a large teepee tent for years for car camping. Love the design. This looks like a great option for a backpack. I'd like to see the comparison with the new model.
Great review. I've owned a lot of tents since buying this about 6 years ago but keep going back to it. So far my all time favourite. I never use the floor...too heavy and I like have some bare ground inside so I can come in wet/dirty without having to worry about messing up a floor. A polycryo sheet is fine coupled with a sea to summit nano bug net when needed and its pretty light. You have enough room and ventilation to cook in it on rainy days too. I don't think you can substitute a trekking pole with the one it comes with, without using some kind of extension. If you have managed to do it, let me know. I've been using a piece of carbon fibre tubing from a set of broken bicycle handlebars in order to extend the pole. You can also hang it from a tree branch or even ridge line between two trees. It eliminates the pole and makes it feel extremely roomy.
I use this tent a lot without the "nest" inside. It's very light without the nest .... like a tarp but enclosed. So a tent feel without the weight. It never looks huge set-up but inside it is so massive.
Another advantage ... and the reason I use this a lot ... is setting it up in the rain is amazing. You set it up. Smack the sides and anything that gets wet during setup falls to the ground. Hop in and roll out the ground sheet and start drying off. I've cooked in it more than once. Plus, if condensation forms on the inside, it just runs down to the parameter instead of dripping on your face like dome models. I only wish I had the nest for bug season. Tempted to by the newest version just for that option.
My fav tent is the Eureka Timberland (the Boy Scout Tent) partly because I got it at a Goodwill Store for $5, like new (retail is $240). They must have thought it was a tarp. You and I both like a tent that is strong even if not light.
It looks like you could use a stick found in the woods for the center pole and cut down a lot of weight. That pole looks heavy! I'd love to have this for winter.
great review Luke!!!!! as always. im pretty much set on getting this tent, well, the Pyramid 3 as a birthday present to myself when i turn 40 this valentines day. BUT, i will hold out if you are getting one in, as mentioned, to see what you make of it first. To this end, and partrly for obvious reasons, it would be awesome if you could get one in and give as in depth a review as youve given the Shangri La. fingers crossed this is a possibility. Thanlyou for taking the time to record and publish this review. To me it has been tremendously helpful. Kindest Regards Dean Cooling ( Silver Bullet fan ;' ) Wales, UK.
Seems very like the naturehike slash flamecreed 2-3 person pyramid. Which, it seems like the naturehike has just been discontinued and the flame’s creed is starting to become available? Which I’m seeing on the naturehike silnylon tarps as well. So I guess flame’s creed is probably a naturehike sub brand? Although the flame’s creed comes without a pole (just an extension piece to be used with two trekking poles), the zippers seem flimsier (particularly the inner), and it comes with 12 stakes and six guylines. I modified a section of a 240cm six section generic pole off Amazon so that it’s now a four section 160cm pole for mine. I’ll be using it on a bicycle, when I go to a campground where I’ll stay for a few days and not be moving on daily. I wanted a luxurious tent for those times.
If you get the new one, you should put a stove jack in your old one and get a wood stove. That is the goal for mine next year! I have the Big Agnes Yahmonite 5, which is literally exactly the same of the Shangri-La 5 except for the logo.
A pyranid or tipi type tent is great in good weather... BUT you cannot enter or leave in the rain WITHOUT filling the tent with water. There are a few where the door section is a vestibule for about half the tipi....
Awesome review, Luke, very detailed and complete, as always :). I have 1 question: how do you get out of it when it is raining? because at the end of the video, you can see that the inner ground sheet goes all the way to the limit of the tent, and there is no cover there when the fly is open, rain could fall in and wet the floor.
Thanks Lucas! That will be an issue with this type of tent but you can disconnect the floor and pull it back so that when you open the door, it doesn't get wet. Then reattach when you are going back in to stay. It's a bit of work but it can be done. - Luke
It's an awesome tent. I plan on ordering one for the family. Now that I need to make room for a 3 year old as well. Do you know if they make a footprint for it, or does it not need it?
Love it would love a one BUT it's just too expensive for me, what we use a dd 4x4 multicam tarp and make a tarp tent with it, but a would love a pyramid tent. Take care Liam 😉
I'm going to contact the company to see if they can hook us up. In the pasted with Golite, they wouldn't and they eventually went under. Hopefully this time they will. - Luke
After I bought the tent today I told them that they need to give acknowledgment to the review you did. I told them this review was the reason I decided to revisit the new company and purchase the Pyramid 3.
Great review as always Luke. If you like this can I recommend you have a gander at the Luxe Sil Hexpeak F6 & F6e (winter version) they're in the same vein, just brought up to date. Hope Alls well brother. Regards Dean Cooling ( Silver Bullet 😉) Wales, UK.
I've lived in a tipi with the boy scouts it was 15' high slept 10 I've been in winds in calif. desert 40 mph/gusts to 60 ,heat to 110 degrees,winter to 0 degrees w/snow I feel tipi shape can be the strongest .
Hey Luke, nice review. Thanks. Hey, instead of getting and reviewing MyTrail Co equivalent, would you be able to review MLD SuperMid? Mountain Laurel Designs is a store based in Roanoke VA. Their SuperMid looks sick, and has pretty good review on outdoorgearlab. Wondering what you think about it. Thanks for great reviews, and great vids.
Test one of the new ones please - I tried to order the original from Golite before it ended business, but it was constantly out of stock - weight is reasonable if split up among 2 or 3 people - the bigger one would be a perfect car camping tent
I have a question about this tent. First, how is it four-season? It only has one real wall (the fly). How can it be warm with only a mesh inner? Thanks, Luke.
All four season tents are the same. What makes it a 4 season is that it can withstand a serious snowfall and that it can be set up with no floor meaning you can have a small wood stove or other heat source inside
The link in the description is gone (404) and under tents they only got the UL 2 & 3. Some other shops still have it for like 400+ euros but it doesn't look like they still produce it anymore.
I've had my eye on that tent for a while I really want one of those or a one Tigris one with a stove Jack built in as you know we've conversed as I as I lay here being sick I'm laying under my new Jungle Pack it came from Amazon and it's 41° and I am nice and toasty under my jungle blanket pumping on a brand new pipe too bad I couldn't order the flavored tobacco I wanted but I got my seam sealer and I got my fabric glue repair my backpack
The tent looks nice, and based upon Luke's review will obviously perform well, but I would be very hesitant about buying anything from a company run by the same principles that went bankrupt and stiffed their suppliers a few years ago. They (My Trail Co) (who the heck came up with that name?!) have a very limited line of products, and from what I saw, over priced products at that. I study the gear industry, and suppliers very carefully, and I would stay away from any machination formed by the former principles of Go Lite, and/or any of their products. My prediction is that they go under again, or just languish as a mediocre company, as they seem to have no real niche in any market! There are so many other great suppliers to obtain gear from, and I would look at places like REI, Sierra Trading Post, Cabelas, (recently bought out by Bass Pro Shops), Campsaver, Backcountry, Amazon, Tarptent, Sportsman's Guide, and perhaps look cautiously at EMS, as one of their subsidiaries (Sports Chalet) recently went under too. I had great results from the affordable REI Half Dome tent when working in the rainy and very buggy wilderness areas of SE Alaska. Of course one could always look to buy tents and gear directly from solid manufacturers like Marmot, Mountain Hardwear, North Face, MSR, Sierra Designs, or Big Agnes. I think that due to increased competition, and reductions in sales and profits, that some of the outdoor and sporting goods retailers are struggling, and under financial pressure, as in the case of the Sports Authority which went under earlier this year. Sometimes companies try to conceal their financial stability, and you have to be a very connected insider to know how a company is doing, which is why we sometimes see these sudden bankruptcy filings.
My girlfriend gets crazy because she cant find pictures of the fluffy maggot you got on your knee. She was literally screaming because its so cute. Do you know the name of it?
Hi Luke, I have this same tent in its older incarnation (GoLite Hex 3) and also love it. i bought a new inner for mine which is a one man and it makes it so versatile and a little lighter too. Check it out here if you're interested:- www.backpackinglight.co.uk/shelter-accessories/WB117.html Love your vids, been watching since you started. Cheers Geoff
I have the Shangri-la 6-8, and it is the best group shelter ever. Dug out in the winter it is a palace. Love these tents. In winter, being able to easily sleep 6 in the snow for under 6 pounds is amazing.
I've had the shangri-la 5 for 4 years now - I put a stove jack in it and use for my early winter camping tent. I absolutely love this tent. Top quality for sure. Great choice and review.
I have one of these with a tub floor only, and a half shelter along with the full shelter. It's a beast.
The Outdoor Gear Review : Thanks Luke ! Great design for a 4 season tent to withstand the elements , with the high sloped sides that easily disperses rain and snow away from the top of the tent , to prevent it from weighing it down and collapsing onto you while sleeping ! Fantastic to always hear what others [ Luke ] may consider , their all-time favourite pieces of camping / hiking pieces of equipment to use year round !!!
**Yes , this video reminds me of my very own all -time favourite piece of camping equipment , that I used to own was my Sears Canada Hillary 4 person tent ! Folks thinking yeah right ya'll got to be kidding us !!! Excellent tent that provided years of enjoyment that was easy to set-up , with very durable construction to withstand the elements during summertime camping …. Including staying waterproof even during the most torrential of downpours with hailstones the size of marbles , during one long weekend of non-stop rainstorms while camping in a Provincial Park !!! Incredibly when the rain had finally subsided after the 3 days , with the pathways turned into a flowing waterway 6 - 12 inches deep , there were expensive tents actually floating by on the pathway , long ago abandoned by their soaked as a wharf rodent owners ! lol Well lo & behold my Sears Canada Hillary 4 person tent was still dry inside , and furthermore was the only tent left standing while all the other tents had collapsed due to the rain , in our section of the campground in Balsam Lake Provincial Park , Ontario - Canada ! Date - August 1990** Thanks S.S.S./*Tom
Go-Lite, as a company, went BANKRUPT several years ago.
WOW, I had no idea!!! I love it, thanks for sharing that😊
Ive been using mine since the day they came out, I never got the inner net but use the tarp, even in the snow.
Luke, I have a GoLite Den 2 tent, GoLite lightweight windbreaker, and Golite frameless backpack (Breeze model). The backpack has been my main pack for the past 17 years and still looks like new. Probably my favorite gear item.
Had a hex then changed to Shangri invested in a ook nest this leaves half the tent free to use as vestibule also has solid material half way up to stop drafts handy in the UK hills
It looks in very good condition for the amount of use it has had. Like the easy set up.
Wow... Nice tent. Thumbs up as always... Peace !
This Weatherforcast is brilliant!!!
I have same tent in Bamboo color, marketed as Big Agnes Yahmonite 3. I am going to purchase either a quarter or half best with ripstop sides to use so I can cook inside and block drafts in cooler weather.
Saw it first several years ago being used by Ross Gilmore ... bought one ... love it. Thanks.
I've enjoyed my Shangri-La 3 (wish I bought the five). You left out that the fly only option can be used without the pole by suspending it with the loop on the peak. That also affords much more open space without a pole in the middle. When car camping, I've used a couple of poles on the outside to hold it up and have tons of open space inside. Love the headroom!
Speaking of tepees, Luke you should do a review on the Polish lavvu. It's a great bushcraft shelter. Hint hint. Lol
I use a round parachute. 56 bucks, 9foot tall 15 foot round
Still my favourite after 10 years.
I hike so only use the fly and a trekking pole with the extension
That gives a 5'6" height and 58 Square feet of floor space.
For a solo you're right it's a palace.
I want to buy this, and as of today, 4-19-2017, the MyTrailCo Pyramid 3 shelter (which I guess is the remastered version of this one) is on sale for only $239, but is only available in yellow. Probably shouldn't care that much, but I hate brightly colored outdoor equipment.
I would love to see the new version!!!!!
Great reviews. I'm in between this and the Snugpak Scorpions 2. I am in the military going through all 4 seasons. Would like something waterproof, has the mesh for air flow, easy set up/tear down and that can fit 2 people. Basically myself and my pack/gear. What would you recommend?
I have used a large teepee tent for years for car camping. Love the design. This looks like a great option for a backpack. I'd like to see the comparison with the new model.
Great review. I've owned a lot of tents since buying this about 6 years ago but keep going back to it. So far my all time favourite. I never use the floor...too heavy and I like have some bare ground inside so I can come in wet/dirty without having to worry about messing up a floor. A polycryo sheet is fine coupled with a sea to summit nano bug net when needed and its pretty light. You have enough room and ventilation to cook in it on rainy days too. I don't think you can substitute a trekking pole with the one it comes with, without using some kind of extension. If you have managed to do it, let me know. I've been using a piece of carbon fibre tubing from a set of broken bicycle handlebars in order to extend the pole. You can also hang it from a tree branch or even ridge line between two trees. It eliminates the pole and makes it feel extremely roomy.
I use this tent a lot without the "nest" inside. It's very light without the nest .... like a tarp but enclosed. So a tent feel without the weight. It never looks huge set-up but inside it is so massive.
Another advantage ... and the reason I use this a lot ... is setting it up in the rain is amazing. You set it up. Smack the sides and anything that gets wet during setup falls to the ground. Hop in and roll out the ground sheet and start drying off. I've cooked in it more than once. Plus, if condensation forms on the inside, it just runs down to the parameter instead of dripping on your face like dome models. I only wish I had the nest for bug season. Tempted to by the newest version just for that option.
I've been looking at tipi style tents and this looks awesome, thanks for the review
Luke! that tent looks awesome. Thanks for the review.
I'm seeing these teepee, cone, pyramid style tents more & more in outdoor & camping vids, pretty cool.
My fav tent is the Eureka Timberland (the Boy Scout Tent) partly because I got it at a Goodwill Store for $5, like new (retail is $240). They must have thought it was a tarp. You and I both like a tent that is strong even if not light.
Thank for the review. I was eying that tent for awhile.
I seen this before and was interested in purchasing on e wood be cool to see a video of you using it this winter
Just ordered this tent. I totally forgot GoLite became MyTrailCo. I ordered the Pyramid 3 for when I choose not to take my Oztent RV-5
Great. Thanks a lot.
And yes, would be great to have a closer look at the Pyramid 3 or maybe even the Pyramid 4.
Thanks.
It looks like you could use a stick found in the woods for the center pole and cut down a lot of weight. That pole looks heavy! I'd love to have this for winter.
Another great video Luke,thanks for sharing !!!
You are very welcome BJJ. - Luke
great review Luke!!!!! as always. im pretty much set on getting this tent, well, the Pyramid 3 as a birthday present to myself when i turn 40 this valentines day. BUT, i will hold out if you are getting one in, as mentioned, to see what you make of it first. To this end, and partrly for obvious reasons, it would be awesome if you could get one in and give as in depth a review as youve given the Shangri La.
fingers crossed this is a possibility.
Thanlyou for taking the time to record and publish this review. To me it has been tremendously helpful.
Kindest Regards
Dean Cooling ( Silver Bullet fan ;' )
Wales, UK.
I'm Interested I need to know more thanks Luke
Seems very like the naturehike slash flamecreed 2-3 person pyramid. Which, it seems like the naturehike has just been discontinued and the flame’s creed is starting to become available? Which I’m seeing on the naturehike silnylon tarps as well. So I guess flame’s creed is probably a naturehike sub brand? Although the flame’s creed comes without a pole (just an extension piece to be used with two trekking poles), the zippers seem flimsier (particularly the inner), and it comes with 12 stakes and six guylines.
I modified a section of a 240cm six section generic pole off Amazon so that it’s now a four section 160cm pole for mine. I’ll be using it on a bicycle, when I go to a campground where I’ll stay for a few days and not be moving on daily. I wanted a luxurious tent for those times.
I suspect the new tent is the same but would be cool to compare
If you get the new one, you should put a stove jack in your old one and get a wood stove. That is the goal for mine next year!
I have the Big Agnes Yahmonite 5, which is literally exactly the same of the Shangri-La 5 except for the logo.
Have you tried the Luxe minipeak?
oh, they also do newer and bigger versions of this tent under a different brand.
luxe hexpeak f6 looks to be very similar Luke I have it and it is likewise a good solid piece of gear.
Let's see the new one!
Realy a nice tent. Thanks, good job!
A pyranid or tipi type tent is great in good weather... BUT you cannot enter or leave in the rain WITHOUT filling the tent with water. There are a few where the door section is a vestibule for about half the tipi....
Awesome review, Luke, very detailed and complete, as always :). I have 1 question: how do you get out of it when it is raining? because at the end of the video, you can see that the inner ground sheet goes all the way to the limit of the tent, and there is no cover there when the fly is open, rain could fall in and wet the floor.
Thanks Lucas! That will be an issue with this type of tent but you can disconnect the floor and pull it back so that when you open the door, it doesn't get wet. Then reattach when you are going back in to stay. It's a bit of work but it can be done. - Luke
I want to kknow how accurate the woolly worm was
It's an awesome tent. I plan on ordering one for the family. Now that I need to make room for a 3 year old as well. Do you know if they make a footprint for it, or does it not need it?
No vestibule? Looks like it would be difficult to get in and out in the rain, without rain getting inside?
once again great video luke
the wickiup 3 is very similar but also an awesome tent for those in europe.
Love it would love a one BUT it's just too expensive for me, what we use a dd 4x4 multicam tarp and make a tarp tent with it, but a would love a pyramid tent. Take care Liam 😉
Other than just the door There's no ventilation wouldn't it be quite warm??I heard you comment on tents with no ventilation it's hot in there
That is an awesome tent. Could you review the new version? I want one!!
I'm going to contact the company to see if they can hook us up. In the pasted with Golite, they wouldn't and they eventually went under. Hopefully this time they will. - Luke
After I bought the tent today I told them that they need to give acknowledgment to the review you did. I told them this review was the reason I decided to revisit the new company and purchase the Pyramid 3.
I would like to see you do a review of the MyTrail Pyramid 3.
Great review as always Luke. If you like this can I recommend you have a gander at the Luxe Sil Hexpeak F6 & F6e (winter version) they're in the same vein, just brought up to date. Hope Alls well brother.
Regards
Dean Cooling ( Silver Bullet 😉)
Wales, UK.
I absolutely love this tent...gotta have me one from the new company!
according to the mytrailco website, it looks like the pole is not in the center. Maybe making easier for 3 people
Perfect would be a half bathtub fly option with open floor for the other half with a stove jack.
I've lived in a tipi with the boy scouts it was 15' high slept 10 I've been in winds in calif. desert 40 mph/gusts to 60 ,heat to 110 degrees,winter to 0 degrees w/snow I feel tipi shape can be the strongest .
Hey Luke, nice review. Thanks. Hey, instead of getting and reviewing MyTrail Co equivalent, would you be able to review MLD SuperMid? Mountain Laurel Designs is a store based in Roanoke VA. Their SuperMid looks sick, and has pretty good review on outdoorgearlab. Wondering what you think about it. Thanks for great reviews, and great vids.
great tent
Did you ever do the MyTrail review?
I can send you mine to use for the review as well.
wondering if you can so kindly do a review for Copper Hotel HV UL2 tent?
Test one of the new ones please - I tried to order the original from Golite before it ended business, but it was constantly out of stock - weight is reasonable if split up among 2 or 3 people - the bigger one would be a perfect car camping tent
And he made for himself "the one pole tent to rule them all"! Lord of the Tents. LOL...
Does it have anyway to attach the Top Peak to a Line and up into a Tree to Do away with the Pole ?
Can the inner mesh be attach to the outer fly in order to pitch both at once?
What is the width and height of one of the six panels that make up a side? I would like to try to make just the outer fly. Thanks
Aaahhh i cant find it. The new Version is even silicone coated which i like more. I wanna buy it. Can anyone help me out? Great review btw xD
Has golite made a financial comeback and are they selling products again
Do they have a model for a stove (chimney)
How is it on condensation?
I LOVE IT
so sad that GoLite has gone under. I discovered this tent maybe a few months before they disappeared. would love to get my hands on this tent.
Hopefully MyTrailCompany brings it back.
GASP!!! It's back?!
IT's BACK!!!
Do you think it works with an tent oven? Like a hot tent?
I've seen where people have modified these tents to use with stoves. :D - Luke
I love it
I have a question about this tent. First, how is it four-season? It only has one real wall (the fly). How can it be warm with only a mesh inner? Thanks, Luke.
All four season tents are the same. What makes it a 4 season is that it can withstand a serious snowfall and that it can be set up with no floor meaning you can have a small wood stove or other heat source inside
Thanks, Orpheus. I thought it had to do with how warm the tent is.
@@orpheusepiphanes2797 Everything is really academic, considering the company, Go-Lite went BANKRUPT several years ago.
i love this tent but i cannot find one !
do u no of any decent budget hot tents
Danny Macdonnell I agree
i use a polish lavvu and a coleman catyaltic heater works great. but a little heavy for hiking
Flame's Creed has made now the same design.
will it fit a thermarest ultralight cot???
instead of the centre pole can it be hook and tied up to tree branch
donut070707 hi, a tree branch will wave in the wind. Perhaps too much in wicked weather.
Doesn't seem to exist anymore, they only have two tents listed on their homepage at the moment.
Did you go over to the My Trail web site? It should be for sale there if it isn't cold out.
- Luke
The link in the description is gone (404) and under tents they only got the UL 2 & 3.
Some other shops still have it for like 400+ euros but it doesn't look like they still produce it anymore.
where is the stove hole? you said 4 season... I live in mn
This isn't a hot tent but I've seen mods done by others. - Luke
@@TheOutdoorGearReview do you have any links to the mods?
Looks like MyTrailCo doesn't make tents anymore, they just do reviews.
I've had my eye on that tent for a while I really want one of those or a one Tigris one with a stove Jack built in as you know we've conversed as I as I lay here being sick I'm laying under my new Jungle Pack it came from Amazon and it's 41° and I am nice and toasty under my jungle blanket pumping on a brand new pipe too bad I couldn't order the flavored tobacco I wanted but I got my seam sealer and I got my fabric glue repair my backpack
didn't golite go out of business a few years ago????
they did but some of the stuff is available under a different name.
Yeah test it but the price 300 it's never nothing I'm going to spend
The tent looks nice, and based upon Luke's review will obviously perform well, but I would be very hesitant about buying anything from a company run by the same principles that went bankrupt and stiffed their suppliers a few years ago.
They (My Trail Co) (who the heck came up with that name?!) have a very limited line of products, and from what I saw, over priced products at that.
I study the gear industry, and suppliers very carefully, and I would stay away from any machination formed by the former principles of Go Lite, and/or any of their products.
My prediction is that they go under again, or just languish as a mediocre company, as they seem to have no real niche in any market!
There are so many other great suppliers to obtain gear from, and I would look at places like REI, Sierra Trading Post, Cabelas, (recently bought out by Bass Pro Shops), Campsaver, Backcountry, Amazon, Tarptent, Sportsman's Guide, and perhaps look cautiously at EMS, as one of their subsidiaries (Sports Chalet) recently went under too.
I had great results from the affordable REI Half Dome tent when working in the rainy and very buggy wilderness areas of SE Alaska.
Of course one could always look to buy tents and gear directly from solid manufacturers like Marmot, Mountain Hardwear, North Face, MSR, Sierra Designs, or Big Agnes.
I think that due to increased competition, and reductions in sales and profits, that some of the outdoor and sporting goods retailers are struggling, and under financial pressure, as in the case of the Sports Authority which went under earlier this year.
Sometimes companies try to conceal their financial stability, and you have to be a very connected insider to know how a company is doing, which is why we sometimes see these sudden bankruptcy filings.
first once again, hey there luke, great video nice little tent, hope no more wild livestock be making its way onto lonewolf mountain this week.
My girlfriend gets crazy because she cant find pictures of the fluffy maggot you got on your knee. She was literally screaming because its so cute. Do you know the name of it?
Haha It's a wolly worm! - Luke
thanks! now she has phone full of wolly worm pictures! she's happy now :)
I miss that intro.
beatyville. ky. home of the woolly worm festival. woo hoo.
Woolie worm says two feet snow fall.
Lol "A decent tent doesn't have to cost $1000"
Good *¥#¥* job!!! Lol
Those tents sell for a fortune on ebay now.
Go-Lite, as a company went BANKRUPT several years ago.
mytrailco is no longer making or selling tents
Go-Lite went bankrupt several years ago.
Hi Luke, I have this same tent in its older incarnation (GoLite Hex 3) and also love it. i bought a new inner for mine which is a one man and it makes it so versatile and a little lighter too. Check it out here if you're interested:- www.backpackinglight.co.uk/shelter-accessories/WB117.html
Love your vids, been watching since you started.
Cheers
Geoff