Walrus Orbit
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Reviewed by
Ramseybella
+460
April 26, 2025
Winter camping, maybe mid-spring and early to mid fall. Summer it's gonna get hot.
Pros
- SolId design
- Superb craftsmanship
- Lots of room and ventilation
- Would love to have the fly to try winter camping.
Cons
- Heavy
- Incredibly crazy pole double hub design that makes this tent rather slow to assemble in high wind conditions.
- IMO too many critical plastic parts that can crack in sub-zero conditions leaving you FUBAR.
- No way to get parts and out of business.
Like all Walrus tents that IMO are over-engineered by two mad men. But It's built like a bunker.
I like and don't like the hub idea, but try to put this puppy up above the treeline in a scream blizzard condition crosswind. It's just too complicated and the poles once in the sleeved tent body guides are tighter than stretching a Gnats A$$ over a rain barrel getting them in the hubs or the lower plastic sleeves..
That's one issue I have with plastics, they get hard and brittle in sub-zero temps. This tent's rigidness relies on these plastics.
Plenty of room and some decent ventilation as I have the model with extra mesh convertible windows (NOT LIKE PHOTO).
To be fair I paid $4.50 at Goodwill for this tent in excellent condition, unfortunately without the rain fly.
Background
35 years.
Source: bought it used
Price Paid: $4.50
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