Mountainsmith Morrison 2 Person 3 Season Tent (Citron Green)

This is a somewhat a long term review of this tent. I got it in 2014 and have been using it since then. The tent is still going strong and shows almost no signs of wear minus a couple of small tears in a mesh that I made myself. I didn't even bother to patch them they are so small.We use it for camping trips for 2 people. It fits two 25" wide pads easily with some room to spare. The footprint is not large which makes finding a good spot easy. It is very easy to put together and I usually do it under 3 minutes. Since it is a freestanding tent, I don't even pitch it sometimes when the weather is calm and we're staying only 1 night. Interior pockets are huge for a tent of this size.We used this tent in almost all conditions except in heavy snow. It's been in the Death Valley heat, no problem whatsoever. It stood strong in Alaska when it was raining non stop for 3 days, didn't even get a drop of water inside. We used it to camp in a rainforest with 100% humidity for days and condensation was never an issue. It saw some snow in Yosemite in late September. It is a true 3 season tent, it is not very tall which makes it warmer on colder nights.Now to the negatives. It is pretty heavy for a 2 person tent. That's the single reason why I recently got a different tent for backpacking. We still love and use our Morrison for car camping all the time though. Also stock tent stakes are pretty weak, I broke almost all of the stakes it came with. This is easily fixed by getting a pack of MSR groundhogs.All in all, this tent is a masterpiece considering its price!

I can't say enough good things about this tent. It's size and quality are fantastic. The value is unbeatable. It's way more than I expected from a $130 dollar tent, when most of the competitors I was looking at were in the $400-$500 range. I'm so glad I didn't spend that much. This tent is awesome, and I love spending nights in it. I've been over 10 nights out in it now, and I'm really happy with it. It has vents in the rain fly, which keep out rain but allow air to circulate. The rainfly is really, really, waterproof. The bottom is reinforced, and is incredibly waterproof. One of my nights out in this tent was a real Oahu downpour, where I had a few inches of water outside my tent-- the inside stayed totally dry. See my product photos for an image from that night-- inches of water outside my tent, my shoes trying to float away, dry on the inside. Pretty amazing.The inside is really roomy. In this tent it's always just been me, but it would fit another person comfortably. The vestibules are large, giving a good place to stow your gear. The seams are solid. There are two nice, large doors. Its really, really, easy to set up. I regularly set it up in the dark, and it takes me about five minutes. There are two poles that set up in an x-fashion. The tent comes with stakes, but they're not that great; plan on buying replacements eventually.There are plastic clips to fasten the frame. They're made of really high quality plastic and seem like they'll last a long time. There are fasteners for a net in the top of the tent, and also to fasten back the doors and rain fly doors. They're in convenient locations.The tent weights about five pounds so it's a little much for ounce-counters, and not really ideal for backpacking. But for short-distance backpacking or car camping, it's really great.

We just returned from a week of backpacking in northern Arizona and used the tent 6 of 7 nights (got a hotel one night for proper showering and for the purposes of sleeping on something other than a Z Lite "egg crate" for a night). This is a great 2-person tent and served our purposes very well. As other reviewers have noted, it's a little on the heavy side for true lightweight backpacking, but it's certainly not the heaviest tent I've lugged around the wilderness.The vestibules did a good job of sheltering our footwear, and while we were able to fit our packs inside the tent, if you're a little more than average height you'll probably want to cram them under the vestibule or otherwise keep it outside of the tent. I'm 5'6" and was just barely able to fully stretch out without my feet bumping the packs (she's 5'4" and was fine), but in a pinch you could certainly stow all your gear inside if you needed to (we opted to vestibule, tree-hang, or when we car camped, trunk store the packs, aside from me sleeping with a pack in the tent a couple nights just to test the viability of it.We really loved having doors on either side of the tent - great for not having to crawl over your mate when entering/exiting. Pitching and breaking down the tent is very straightforward and quick, and we were able to accomplish both tasks in less than 2 minutes. The poles are color coded and match up to the pole holes on the tent, which doesn't really seem to matter since all corners on the tent are the same, so I'm assuming they just to make things easier for people not used to pitching tents. Pockets on the inside are plentiful at the corners, and the detachable hanging ceiling pocket has a slit in the middle, perfect for sticking a head lamp in to provide light.With the rain fly attached and the flaps fully zipped it did get a bit warm, even with the air vents "open," but not much you can do about that. One day while out on a day hike we left the fly fully zipped in anticipation of rain and also had the tent "screens" open on the inside for some air circulation. When we returned to the tent, there had indeed been rainfall and the fly kept everything inside nice and dry, but there was sand inside the tent on the sleeping bags. We surmised that with the screens exposed and the wind blowing, a nice little wind tunnel was created, sending sand under the fly and up through the screen into the tent. Not a big deal really since we'd rather be shaking out sand than drying out our gear!All in all a really nice tent for the money, we were impressed. For a single camper it's very spacious and it works quite comfortably for two people.