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MSR Wawona 6 vs X-Mid
MSR Wawona 6
22 positive (88%) · 1 mixed (4%) · 2 negative (8%)
Trust + time weighted: +80%
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The Wawona has almost none [water intrusion], despite the partial fly and being in torrential rain for multiple days straight.
Parent context: This review video made me buy the Wawona 6 tent. Never looking back. I love it. Spoiler for the review: It withstands heavy rain. Reply: This review also made me buy it as well!! So far in heavy “atmospheric river” rain. We were in about 3” for about 1 1/2 days and it stayed dry. We fit 2 queens in but it touches the side walls of the tent. Had no issues.
This review video made me buy the Wawona 6 tent. Never looking back. I love it. Spoiler for the review: It withstands heavy rain.
The Wawona 6 looked like it was perfect--it had that same roughly 10x8' footprint. It's tall... It has that amazing vestibule that we can use to change the kids in and out of bathingsuit, store gear, and have a place out of the bugs when we're settling the boys down to sleep. It keeps water out.
I purchased an orange one and set it up in the yard to try it and hated the color so so much that I returned it. I love a lot of orange colors, but this orange was like a faded neon traffic cone. The brown that it is stitched to reminded myself and the person setting it up with me of newborn baby poop. Overall we returned it, I might have gotten a gray one but the floor size was a little small for us and headroom in the vestibule too low.
X-Mid
10 positive (91%) · 0 mixed (0%) · 1 negative (9%)
Trust + time weighted: +79%
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xmids are heavy and bulky compared to a simple tarp/bivy
I've done plenty of cowboy camping, I've slept rolled up *in* a tarp, I've hammock camped, and I mostly sleep in a x-mid nowadays.
my friend's Lunar Solo generally handles it worse than my standard xmid.
Xmid also had peak guy lines. Pct I lost a pole down a gully and tied the peak guy line to a tree. Worked well enough for two days
Ive taken my xmid in violent lighting storms with carbon fiber poles. You’re packing your fears