Chinook Tradewinds Guide 6-Person Fiberglass Pole Tent Review

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(More customer reviews)The design of the this tent is a real good idea with an added area for cooking or sitting. I really wished they would have put a little more thought into set up and take down. It is very confusing which side is the front and back. The main tent is fairly easy to put together with the poles and clips once you figure out which is the front. The real trouble starts once you try and put the rain fly/vestibule on top of the tent. There is no way to tell which is the front, side or back. Wish they used some sort of color code for front to back and figured a better way to insert the poles for the ridge and vestibule. It is hard to fish the ridge pole over the top and into the small pockets especially when doing it alone!
The first time two of us set up the tent and had a struggle figuring which way everything faced, because the directions were very poor. I got a permanent marker and marked every corner, so the next time I would know which side of the tent connected to the rain fly and which side was the front!!! The second time I set it up the tent I was really glad wind wasn't blowing, it would have been hell on top of all the other troubles we had setting up this tent.
The vestibule pole is straight and has to be fed into a curved angle. It is even more difficult to remove that pole, since it is in sections and you can't pull it back out. It gets hung up on each joint because you have feed it back out. Also, the plastic cinches for the rope ties don't hold at all and slipped on every side except for one. I had to figure a different way to tie the ropes to the stakes.
The outer shell is curved and looks like there is a lot of room on the side walls. It really doesn't and is more like a triangle in the inside with a lot room between the fly and the tent wall. Really wish they would have put more a curve to the side wall of the tent and match the curve of the fly. So the only place you can stand up is in the very center of the tent. If you are close to 6 foot your head will hit the top. I am 5' 10" and I found myself stooping over all the time. Now I wished I would have bought the 8 man tent rather than the 6 man.
Hope no one thinks the tent will ever go back into the storage bag that comes with it, with the added air in the tent, it almost doubles in size. I don't have a machine or a handy table to fold it as tight as it requires to fit in the bag again.
I can say, it held up well in the winds once we had it set up in Wyoming and was useful once it was set up. It also was easy to heat up in the morning with a small heater. So it is a nice three season tent. The plastic tarp that is the floor for the vestibule really helps to keep the dirt out of the tent.

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The Tradewinds Guide 6 features No-See-Um mesh doors on the extra-large vestibule, for superb ventilation and comfort on humid, buggy evenings. The main tent body uses a special 3-pole configuration making this a very stable tent in windy conditions. We have also incorporated an extremely large free-standing, ridged vestibule which uses Chinook\'s unique VestaRidge\' system and a heavy duty, oxford nylon floor for extra protection against wear and tear.

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