Vango F10 Krypton UL 2 Tent - Alpine Green Reviews

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Vango F10 Krypton UL 2 TentNew for 2021, the Vango F10 Krypton UL 2 is a 2-man tent and is an exciting addition to our Force Ten Expedition range, made for extreme adventures and expeditions and suitable for the harshest conditions. The Krypton sits alongside our XPD and MTN tents and is the pinnacle of our range. The Krypton is pitched inner first and is made of a Geodesic construction, reinforcing its strength and allowing for a free-standing structure. Made with a lighter Protex 15.SRN flysheet and high quality, light Yunan Eco Alloy Poles, providing excellent strength in high winds and benefitting from taped seams for a watertight seal. There is plenty of room to sit up inside and the peak of the tent is offset to one side for easier movement and to give a streamlined, wind shielding shape. The Krypton has all you need for those planned wild adventures for wherever you go.Yunan Eco Alloy Poles - Extremely high quality poles made with acid free processing by Yunan. These poles provide excellent strength in high winds as well as being very lightOffset Inner Height - The inner tent height, offers you plenty of room to sit up. The peak of the tent is offset to one side for easier movement and to give a streamlined, wind-shedding, shapeProtex 15.SRN Flysheet - 3000mm HHFully Taped Seams - All flysheet and groundsheet seams are factory taped for a watertight seal70D Ripstop Nylon 6 Groundsheet - 70 Denier Nylon Fabric is a great balance between low weight and high durability, waterproof to 6,000mm HH15D Nylon Inner Tent Fabric - 15D 28gsm breathable nylon inner tentO-shaped Inner Doors - Easy to open with one handPart Mesh Inner Door - Allows ventilation, while keeping bugs outTwin Flysheet Doors - Allows easier access for two or more occupants, and/or additional storageInternal Storage Pockets - Provides convenient storage within the inner tent, keeping essentials close to handHigh Level Pockets - Ideal for storage or to position a torch for lightFast Pack Tent Bag - Oversized opening for easy packing and compression straps to control pack sizeDyneema Core Guylines - Excellent strength to weight ratioMini Line-Lok Guyline Runners - Lock securely, simple to release and high performance in all conditionsDyneema Pegging Points - Can be modified for use with skis or snow anchorsGeodesic Construction - Geodesic tents provide an extremely strong, free-standing structure with 5 crossover points, providing all season stabilityInner First Pitch - Simple and quick to pitch. Allows the tent to be used without the flysheet in warm climatesWEIGHT2.1kgPACKSIZE45.0 x 14.0cm

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Robin Cole-Hamilton

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“The jury is out on this tent since I haven't even been able to pitch it in the garden yet. I bought it for two trips this year, one mainly in woodland and one planned for the autumn on high hills. It's a 2-person inner-first, twin-vestibule tent in a decent shade of green. On spec it looks good: it's lightweight, roomy for solo, and Vango say it's "suitable for the harshest conditions". It looks well put together and the materials are high quality. However... what you'll find is that the Krypton has just two (not very long) guylines, one at each end. Every other pegging point is on the edge of the inner groundsheet or the outer fly. There is no guy, nor any tie-down for one, anywhere on either side of the tent. Okay, so pitch it end-on into the wind as usual; but what if the wind then veers in the night, as it can? What if your available site doesn't allow anything but pitching side-on to the wind? What if you'd like to run a reassuring guyline to a nearby tree or stone wall. There's no way you can adapt for any of these, because all you can peg out are the two ends and the tent base. Now some US tents are the same - MSR and Big Agnes for example - and are very popular, but for anyone who's camped out in Scottish weather you get into the habit of belt and braces, which this tent doesn't seem to offer. The pegging points round the inner and fly might be enough, we'll see, but they are going to struggle on sheet rock or very soft ground (forest floor being an example) where pegs are hard/impossible to drive in or will pull out easily. Again, with guylines you can move the guy around till you find somewhere a peg will hold or something else to tie down to, but that just doesn't work for a rectangular/hexagonal footprint which has also to tension the fly properly. So, doubts already about its ability genuinely to cope with "the harshest conditions", and I haven't even set it up. There is not a single user review online. I messaged Vango to ask how they had tested the tent before putting it on the market as "the pinnacle of our range", and got no response whatever. Their web page is just full of marketing blurb - compared to serious Scandinavian tentmakers there is no useful data on stuff like wind ratings. I used to rate Vango highly, and still have their excellent Cairngorm tent, but I'm not sure they really take their technical tent range seriously any more - the big money is obviously in family-size structures. Which is a shame, because part of the Vango brand strength derives from the reputation of the F10 range, and when that goes, what is Vango? If anyone from the company actually designed this tent rather than simply ordering it off the page from a wholesale manufacturer in the Far East I'd love to hear from them. I've given three stars based on anticipation rather than experience. I know that's unfair, but I've never before felt so unconvinced that a tent purchase is going to live up to its billing. And one thing you don't need setting out is doubts about your shelter.”

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