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I use an IMUSA pot. Love it. Cheap, light. What's not to like really?

What size?

Alps makes sturdy, solid, reliable, albeit slightly heavy gear. They market primarily to the boy scouts. I've had all sorts of tents, tarptents, from various manufacturers. Sierra Designs,...

Joe, I had a Golite Ultra. I had a regular size (maybe too small for 5'10 215 lbs?) And although not claustrophobic being a quilt, it was pretty minimal coverage for me. YMMV

I then got a...

I had a defective double rainbow. The first replacement I was sent also suffered from the same malady. Henry was very gracious and made everything right.

Had to get a replacement buckle for a...

Love the alps tent myself and that's a good tip. mine has never leaked there either but it does annoy me.

I just realized I had the cylcone and NOT the Hurricane. Not sure in the differences in technology, but needless to say it didn't pass muster. Sierra Designs customer service just told me to but...

Mine wetted out after literally a few hours of use. Not recommended.

Family Guy is the expert on the upgrades. But my understanding is heavier fabric and now the side pockets have slits to route the compression straps though them (a complaint on previous models). ...

Not to mention that STP has 16% cashback from bing.com making this tent $117.56

Did you mean make the footprint slightly smaller than the tent bottom? Otherwide rain will run off the tent onto your footprint and then will run under the tent and collect between your ground cloth...

Franco,

I was WELL aware of the need to seam seal a tarptent.

But I think you are right. I was simply overwhelmed by the tarptent. It was like being in the presence of Jesus Christ...

I returned mine.

After spending several hours spread out over several days attempting to seam seal the Rainbow I cut bait.

The final straw really was the lack of response from Tarptent in...

My TT Rainbow went back to backcountry gear today.

I have the IMUSA. Out here in Iowa Wal-Mart doesn't carry them. Weird. They are very much marketed/carried in locations with a higher density of Mexican-Americans. We have an unusually large...

Quickly tried to set up the rain porch. You know you are from Iowa when you use bailing twine. Nevermind the gigantic piece of plastic, I was cutting a groundsheet.
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I figured he was out based on most people's CS experience, so I didn't want to jump to any conclusions.

You can also see where my vesiblue splits on the right side of the vent if you are looking at it.

This is different from the photos on the website.

It was tough to get a great picture to illustrate the issue with the rain porch but I took a couple of photos with the help of my son to show the gap.

Matching up the velcro:...

Here's a photo of what I mean by the vestibule door hanging down. This is actually secured okay, but other times even more fabric falls down in front of the tent.
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My experience at this point is: a) HS is out and not returning emails, b) my emails are being routed to his spam box, c) for whatever reason he is simply not responding to my emails.

I'm hoping...

Right. And I don't see both sides of the vestiblue rolled up and secured in those pictures like the previous pictures of the early model.

I just went and looked at mine (after all this conversation I put it up to get some measurements to determine if I wanted to go a different direction and left it up).

I noticed my Rainbow does...

The product on the intial Rainbow page is not the same product I have. The Rainbow in those photos does not have the apex vent in the front. I am unable to secure both side of the vesibule like in...

That side is no problem for me. Its the other side. The one that has the guyout that is staked.