Kelty Gunnison 3-Person Tent Review
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| Product Code | B002YY1PUO |
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Product Details
- Size: 3 Person
- Color: Ice
- Brand: Kelty
- Model: 40106103
- Dimensions: 75.00" h x
46.00" w x
92.00" l,
6.38 pounds
Features
- Free-standing, ArcEdge floor, taped floor seams
- Mesh wall panels, internal storage pockets
- Clip construction, ITW stakeouts
- Taped seams, side-release buckle tent-fly connection
- Fly vents, noiseless zipper pulls, guyout points
- Free-standing, ArcEdge floor, taped floor seams
- Mesh wall panels, internal storage pockets
- Clip construction, ITW stakeouts
- Taped seams, side-release buckle tent-fly connection
- Fly vents, noiseless zipper pulls, guyout points
Product Description
The redesigned Gunnison with its improved features is a freestanding, color-coded clip construction shelter that offers quick, two-pole setup and spacious quarters for a couple or a crowd. It includes internal storage pockets for organization and a combination of hubbed, high-quality DAC Feather lite pockets.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The designer lived in it
By Robert
Being elderly, I mostly motorcycle camp, so I can go with a little more weight than if I were back packing. But here I am using a 3 person tent for myself and my inflatable mattress. Total comfort as the mattress fills 2/3 of the floor space leaving plenty or room for "stuff". The tent goes together and breaks down in a snap, perfect for single person set up.I have back packed for 45 years and been through a lot of equipment. This tent is the most intuitively well designed that I have seen. The design of the zippers is great, the easy on clips, the easy on rain fly and vestibule design are all well done. Almost half the weight is in the rain fly, so if you know that you are going to just need bug protection the tent without rain fly is much lighter to pack for hiking. I felt like I really got my money's worth on this product. Kelty seems to be keeping up its reputation.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.Solid tent at a solid price
By TurboDog
I enjoy quality gear, and this tent is replacing my Marmot Limelight 2 that is just a little small for me now. The Kelty is perfect so far... wouldn't change a thing minus perhaps including the footprint, but that's industry standard for the most part. Aesthetically pleasing, and ruggedized to boot. I would say you can't find a better tent for the price, but then I'd see more of these out on the trails and I would no longer have a 5 pound Taj Mahal all to myself ;)
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Older Gunnison had better setup
By Max S. Traweek
I have a 2 person Kelty Gunnison that I purchased in 2007. It has seen lots of use and remains in very good condition. I decided to try the 3 person version to gain some extra room. Got the extra room as expected but definitely don't like the new method of attaching the poles to the corner straps nor the clips used in attaching the rain fly to those same straps. To attach the poles you have to snap the round ends into a hard plastic receptacle that makes up the corner strap. The key word here is "hard," as I have found it a little difficult to achieve the "snap in," and even harder to remove the poles ("snap out") from the straps when breaking camp. I've only used the new tent a few times so far and have already had the round pole tip separate from the tube while trying to get the pole free of the corner strap. Not a major problem so far since you can easily reinsert the round tip back into the pole. I would imagine that the more often this unwanted separation of the tip from the pole occurs with a given pole, the less secure that connection will become. Luckily, I will only be using this tent for car camping and should always have a set of pliers on hand when removing the pole tips from the hard plastic straps.To attach the rain fly to the corner straps requires another "snap in" process using the hard plastic strap unit and a plastic clip on the end of the rain fly corner. Again, this "snap in" has been a little difficult to accomplish both in attaching and removing the clip. The plastic clip and attaching point seem like they may be prone to breaking, especially given that it takes some pressure to both snap and unsnap the clip.My older Kelty Gunnison has a very simple pole and rain fly attachment setup that I feel certain will outlive the plastic mechanism on the newer tent. And the older setup requires little to no pressure in making the various connections. If Kelty had stayed with the older, simpler and more basic mechanism for the newer Gunnisons, I would be much happier with the new tent.
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