Let me tell you a tale. The wife and I are headed to Campo to start hiking in a couple weeks and decided to buy a Big Agnes Tiger Wall 2. $550 is a lot for a freestanding tent but fine. Well, REI sent us the Tiger Wall 2 CARBON. Customer service has offered an exchange or for us to keep this tent instead. A few things:

  • I would (and SHOULD) be embarrassed to be seen sleeping in a $1000 tent
  • Carbon tent poles make me very nervous
  • The DCF used is super thin. It's going to need to be babied.


However, it seems like the universe wants us to give it a try- it certainly lightens our load and makes room in my pack. I can find zero field tests for this tent beyond a preview from Andrew Skurka that doesn't fill me with confidence.

What would you do? Try the Carbon or return it? I'm thinking we have to try this thing.

Frizz