Big Agnes Seedhouse SL 1 Tent 1-Person 3-Season

admin October 15, 2007

Big Agnes Seedhouse SL 1 Tent 1-Person 3-Season PRODUCT REVIEW: Big Agnes : Big Agnes Seedhouse SL 1 Tent 1-Person 3-Season Buy Now: $228.95 Product Reviews SL stands for super light, the kind of campers Big Agnes refers to as gram counting geeks. Call us what you will, we can’t get enough of the Big Agnes Seedhouse SL 1 tent. The Seedhouse SL 1 gives real tent room so you can sit up, fumble around and generally take advantage of having some space to flail in, but its weight is more like a bivy. The Seedhouse SL 1 is ideal for eating up distance, be it on foot or bike. The Seedhouse uses plastic clips to attach frame to body, providing maximum ventilation and ultra-quick setup. When speed and light weight are the most important factors, the Seedhouse rules the day.

Big Agnes Seedhouse 1SL
The solo tent I spend days of research to find is the SL1. A paltry 2#-14oz for 22SF of free-standing space compacts down into a big summer sausage roll about 15″ long. The three-pole design shock corded together with a hub is perfect for setting up in the dark. A Brunton Glorb lantern heats it perfectly, albeit the mesh is very sensitive to heat and you need to keep heat centered. The vestibule is big enough for a pair of boots, bear spray and a small day pack. Impervious to 25 mph winds and excellent zippers. Nice tapered design would fit a 6′ person nicely. Room inside for my pack and rifle. No condensation, although some frost on the top of the mesh … it was 18 degrees outside! Mesh is so fine it sublimated before accumulating. If it’s complex to set up you either have problems tying your shoes or didn’t take time at home to walk through the setup in your backyard. All components are high quality. Tent’s a little pricey, but some stores will sell for less. Best light solo tent I’ve tried … beats MSR hands down.

the epitome!
I work for backcountry.com and I’m here to tell you this is the one. I’m six foot four and I can stretch out in this baby. This thing is touted as a one person but it is wider than my tnf canyonlands which is a two person tent. I took this on my wonderland trail trip around mt. Rainier which is a 100 mile, 20,000 ft elev. Gain and loss, 12 day trip. It is the lightest, roomiest tent I’ve found. Yes you can find lighter, you can go with a bivy or tarp, or another 1 person tent. Are you going to climb into your sleeping bag which is inside your bivy if you get to camp at 2:00 pm and there are a ton of bugs and it’s 70 degrees Can you sit up in it and change clothes or add a layer Is your tarp going to keep the bugs away Can you take the rainfly off your tent and look at the stars and still be this light and roomy Didn’t think so, me neither which is why I chose this one. It weighs less than 3 lbs. Just get one, you’ll thank me. One note, keep the Velcro away from the mesh, it snags easy, light weight almost always comes with a compromise but like all gear if you take care of it, it will take care of you. Happy trails!!

Best Solo Tent
I’ve gotten used to sleeping under a tarp but since I found this tent I’ve decided to go back to tent camping. This is a Great tent!! Its Super light - almost as light as my tarp. Its very easy to set up and I stayed dry during two nights of rain. I’ve tried two other one man tents but this is the best by far.

First Trip with Big Agnes
My first trip using the Tent was a little fustrating. The tent was advertised as being semi self standing but what I found was a tent with several stakes and a fly with many tie downs which made setting up more complicated then I wanted. The tent is light and once set up is plenty roomy for one person. I am 5′8″ tall and I think that a person over six feet tall would feel a little pinched for space.

A rough and bumpy road leads to heights of greatness.
I’m 6′3 and I just fit in this tent. I have a long Marmot sleeping bag that I kind of have to bunch up a little near my feet to keep from pushing against the tent wall. The reason I chose this tent is because of the weight, and it beats a bivy. Also it’s not single walled tent so there is barely any condensation and ventilation is great. My regular prolite Thermarest fits in it, a large Therma could problem to fit in it, but I try to keep my weight down. There are clips that attach to the poles around the door but the long center pole has to be threaded through loops on the tent body. I wish there were clips for the long pole so I could use the fast fly setup during rain then just clip the tent body inside the rain fly. Instead you have to put the tent up first then put the rain fly on second which gets the inside of the tent wet. Vestibule fits my Gregory G-Pack but probably wouldn’t fit a larger pack. This is the best and lightest single person three-season double-walled tent I’ve found and I tried out a bunch. I hope to see in next year s model a few inches longer and clips on all the pole-to-tent connections, not loops.

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