Tarptent cloudburst 35/20/2023 ![]() ![]() However, when compared to other shelters in its category, the Allak 3 is mostly lighter. This thing is HEAVY compared to what I am accustomed to. My task now was to sift through the tents in the four season category and in the end the one tent that met all the options I was looking for turned out to be the Hilleberg Allak 3. Only a four season shelter checks all these boxes. The tent will need to be comfortable when waiting out storms or simply hanging out. It will need to be versatile enough to be pitched in nearly all situations whether ideal or not. This required thinking about the demands of everyday life that the shelter is going to have to endure.Īll four seasons from extreme heat to cold, sand storms to snow storms, and hard winds to calm days. I have been using three season shelters for all four seasons without issue until I began planning for our bicycle life. This did not gives us any confidence at all in this shelter so we returned it. After setting it up in the house we noticed it had a lot of perfectly round holes punched in the netting. Our next purchase was a Big Agnes Copper Spur that never left the garage. And I am still impressed with the Double Rainbow but this Cloudburst 3 became a disappointment. I have been using a Tarptent since at least 2000 maybe before when I started using the original GossamerGear Squall. Having to seam seal another piece of fabric over the stitching is NOT a solution it is poor design. Tarptent said that is normal and I disagree, that area should have been reinforced especially since it is the floor where water protection is essential. You can see it pulling apart so much so that it lets water in. The floor corners also hold the tension at the bottom to pitch the tent and this creates too much stress on the stitching. The corner stitching of the floor is not reinforced enough for its intended purpose. By the end of our tour two months later there was a basketball sized hole that we had to sew and many other smaller holes. The mosquito netting is too thin for daily use and ours kept ripping. However, all these advantages are also its disadvantages. The vestibules are big with many different configurations. It has great ventilation and can be set up quickly. Lots of room at only three pounds and it packs up very small. There are many things to like about the Cloudburst such as its size to weight ratio. Along the way it revealed a few flaws we were now concerned about, considering that a tent is going to be our house from now on. During our tour from Washington to Wyoming we used our Tarptent Cloudburst 3 that we had originally purchased as our bike touring shelter. ![]()
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