Agreed, I’m still curious as to the method behind the madness of these not being fully zipped? Over the weekend I had snow billow up inside the back door. I woke up to an internal blizzard.
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LOL, I’m more of a McDonalds coffee guy and was shocked in Missoula when I tried to get an extra large at the drive thru and they were like ‘Uh we don’t have those’ LOL. If you’re ever back up in that area let me know and we can go for a tour. Then geek out on our setups LOL
This looks like an easy and simple solution. What sort of hooks did you use with the tarp clips in the first pic? And do you have any issues with them sliding around at all?
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They are just small S hooks from the hardware store. There’s enough tension that they don’t slide around. They do scratch the paint a bit though.
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Nice, Thanks! I was thinking maybe a rubber coating on the end of the s hook might help with scratching and sliding if that was an issue.
I was told that the tent doors do not have full zippers because:
“The reason we do not zip the bottom doors is because it is a single wall tent and you need air moving through the tent to minimize condensation build up.”
Yet they offer the tent without side doors so they could actually offer them with full zippers and leave it up to the user to choose to fully zip or not
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Just curious if anyone has tried some small magnets and something like tenacious tape or gear repair fabric to glue and hold everything together. Need to seal up a little better and maintain the peace for kids sake lol.
Let me know your thoughts?
Just commenting here.
After spending 3-6 months sleeping in the tent all over Baja and the west, this is a poor tent design.
I advise that future models be made with full zippers, and let the customer decide how to vent airflow.
A much better solution for the rest of us would,be to alter your doors so they zip on the bottom or if possible full zip because rolling the sides up kind of sucks too.
The sound of the external tent flaps and the screen flaps just smack against each other all night in addition to the zipper pulls which I’ve just e-taped all of them.
a full perimeter zipper could be a great addition, one of the things that has always bugged us about the flap design is that it doesn’t open from the top down. There have been plenty of occasions when we want to have the flap open partially but not be visible to the outside world, sadly that’s not possible with how they zip as is. On windy nights we have started to roll up the inside screen, this definitely cuts down dramatically on the slapping of the flap and the screen, tho still not entirely ideal.
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I agree that the tent flap design doesn’t fully make sense to me. The two standard rtt’s that I’ve had were built much better. Not having fully zipping doors makes zero sense. And also, maybe I’m uneducated in the engineering aspect, but what do the screen doors have so much excess material? They’re so sloppy and over sized.
I love the GFC but the tent portion is poor.
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I used some stick on tent snaps, 2 each door, along the bottom of the flaps. They really cut down on the noise. They don’t work the greatest on the back flap since GFC made it too narrow so it can’t be fully zipped down
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I agree with the bottom of the doors. They could be much better. Stick on tent snaps? Pictures or link?
Peace.
There may be a better version out there but this is what I used. At first I thought that they would have issues sticking but they’ve been on for about 6 months with no problems.
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I truly don’t know what GFC was thinking when they designed the tent. It baffles me because like @Dogandagladiator mentioned, my CVT MT Hood was light years better in terms of the design with the windows, ventilation, and more.
Not having venting at the top or full zip windows especially in Montana is shocking.
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Notice anything with these photos? Windows that you can zip down, not up on the inside (this is a V1) and pockets!
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I’ll agree with the masses here as well, full zip windows would be super nice. Also not sure why there’s so much netting fabric, seems like they maybe didn’t account for the zipper?
Not to mention if they zipped from the top down it would be super easy to vent the peak of tent to reduce condensation. Does baffle me that there’s no sort of vents at the peak to help with condensation since that’s where all the hot air sits. Not sure how much those “cone” vents that can be seen on other tents help but adding 2 on the rear door would be nice as well.
Pockets… pockets would be b*tchin’!
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I’m not a tent expert, but I do have some ideas and thoughts on the GFC Tent. I think it could be greatly improved buy using a double wall such as an XPAC/Dyneema/Fiber Flight exterior wall for more rigidity and waterproof-ness, and something like a cotton duck or maybe even a micro fleece on the inside to cut down on moisture buildup. As for the windows, a full zip would make sense, or at least a window that has a good overlap between top and bottom so that it can ventilate while keeping weather out. Corner vents at the peak would probably be a major help for moisture also. Again, not an expert in tents or sewing…
One thing I did mull over is that they should entertain the idea of adding in a reinforced area on the side panels where they can then stitch in molle webbing so that people can develope things for the inside storage more easily.
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I really love my GFC, and I know this discussion was geared towards wind, but I’m really jealous of my friends that get to sleep naked in their Amazon rtt’s cuz their windows roll from the top down. I hope GFC makes some design changes on the next version but that sadly wouldn’t help any of us anyways.
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