*THE RTT Owners Thread (With BS)*

Gracias.

 

Again on the topic of teardown I'm with @POOLGUY and @Box Rocket. My Mckinley for sure goes up faster than a ground tent of similar size. I can deploy in about 4 minutes w/o the annex and tear it down in about 12. Having done substantial tent camping, there's very little difference by the time you deflate mattresses, stuff sleeping bags, stow poles, and stuff the tent.

 

I hardly camp in the winter, so I just take off the ladder so that I can fit in the garage

 

I wish i had a garage.. or hell even a bedroom at this point in life.. Living in a studio apartment all through my undergraduate has me feeling boxed in... lol

 

I agree. I think everyone forgets the need of tarps, air matress, gathering pillows and everything else when taking time into consideration. The rtt is easy as can be and ive only opened it up twice since ive owned it, itll only go faster.

vehicle heights are so varying there is no way they can make it a certain height to keep everyone fitting in a 7ft door except offering a thinner tent anyways which would give the option for people worried about that.

 

I have a CVT Mt Shasta and would like to have more height when folded (Which I know goes against what a lot of people have said here). But I have 1 zero degree and one 32 degree sleeping bag (which gets switched for another 0 in the winter), two standard pillows and a twin down comforter and it's bursting at the seems. The Velcro straps on the side are worthless as the Velcro itself is cheap and it won't stay compressed. So there is a ton of stress on the zipper to the cover. I will be looking at ways to replace the Velcro with some industrial strength stuff.

Would be great if the "2-3" person tents were wide enough for a two person sleeping bag and actually be able to fold up with it in there. Have some type of joint where the tents fold that allow it to rise up a little.

Other than that I love it. Set up is sub 2 min and take down is 2-5 pending if the additional bedding is in there (when GF is with me) making the stuffing and cinching down a little tougher. But all around it beat the hell out of a ground tent when it's raining, snowing or your in areas with Snakes and Scorpions and sheeeit.

Have only used the Annex a few times for when I am staying for more than a day or two. Would like to see an option to have the Annex be made from lighter weight material to help ease the set up take down and shrink the storage size of it. But otherwise I like it.

 

I get that, but @MTgirl specifically said that she is 1" too tall

 

Ahh gotcha. I didn't have a garage before this year so the RTT stays outside most of the time anyway. Even now that I have a garage, I rarely park in it lol

 

Garage isn't for cars... It's for parts

 

Hey at least you don't live in a basement suit and have to carry the thing from the front to the back and down a flight of stairs lol

 

Yeah okay, Mr California.

 

I live in an apartment on the second floor. My tent is currently living in my bedroom with me

Life is rough...

 

30 min from my house as of this weekend


I hope it snows a lot this year

 

Super jealous. I'm hoping that I can move to Colorado in the next couple years.

 

Hey today it got to like 70 degrees. It's really cooling down. Everybody was wearing jackets and gearing down for the blizzard.

 

Lol I was making fun of people for wearing heavy jackets when it was only 6. Whatever that is in murica measurements

 

That's not bad. My whole family lives in Idaho/Utah/Colorado. I don't fit in in California. I'd much prefer to live in the snow than by the beach.