Ben, I haven't ventured into S240 world yet but used to backpack a great deal. I use a 2 lb. 2-person Marmot (or as my wife likes to call it a one-person, one-dog, I'm sleeping in the car tent) that is fairly similar to the Big Agnes that many are suggesting. Having a little headroom is nice over a bivy. A couple of other key features that I looked for, based on past experience, is the bathtub bottom with no seams until you are 3-4" off the ground. Helps keep life a little dryer. The other thing I found helped were tents that had pole straps that not only tightened up nicely but had a buckle that split the webbing in two parts. Any moisture wants to wick up the webbing to the tent. The buckle in the middle of the strap keeps that from happening. Didn't know it would be such a nice feature until I started using it. I also found that the mesh mattered. I've had tents where the mesh actually obscured the view at night. The Marmot has a darker purple mesh that is almost completely transparent when star-gazing at night. That was an incredible upgrade after the previous tents.
If you are interested in saving some money, REI's online garage is good but their garage sales are even better. We bought a larger tent for car camping from an REI Garage sale. They run them every couple of months to get rid of returned merchandise. Go early, read the tags carefully (in case it says "ripped") and have a list of tents you are looking for before walking in the door. We had a list of 4 tents we'd be happy with and found the 1st and 3rd on our list. Got our top choice for about $60-70 for a $400 tent. Good luck! John On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 9:13:51 AM UTC-8, BenG wrote: > > State parks within 30 miles on 3 compass points, and I have yet to do an > S24O. This is my year. What tent do you recommend, please? And thank you, > Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
