This didn't come up in a quick search so..

First Ascent Katabatic Tent

No weight specs yet.

Strange, but it looks like the vestibule does not have any doorway access. Since it's a "double d" door it seems the doors are on the side and based off their diagrams this puts the small vestibule between doors. So in a storm you would have to exit the shelter, take down the vestibule, access your gear, then again erect the vestibule.

I must be reading things wrong. Maybe the diagrams of the bodies is oriented 90 degrees from what I would expect.

Actually, if you scroll over the pic on the home page for tents, it lists the weight. 10lbs, 15oz.

Strange, but it looks like the vestibule does not have any doorway access.
This is the tent fully sealed up :

This is the inner :


just like any other tent of that design, to access the vestibule you open the door of the inner .
But maybe I did not understand your point...
Franco

Edited by Franco on 04/02/2012 20:39:11 MDT.

Thanks, I figured it out too.

For some reason it seemed like the fly was rotated 90 degrees from the inner. If you look at slide 7 on the link in the OP the way the diagram is drawn is a bit weird. They market the benefits of a "Double-D door design for easy entry/exit/access to vestibule storage areas." So I got confused. Your pictures side by side clears up my confusion.

Must be a brain fog day for me =)

Yea, this stuff has been pictured in their catalogs but is just going up for sale I guess.

Also check out their "expedition" line of sleeping bags. Pertex endurance shell ans 850 fill: http://www.eddiebauer.com/EB/Bags--Gear/Camping/Sleeping-Bags/index.cat

Looks like they have synthetic bags with Apex as well.

A 2-man pop-up with a throw-over fly, weighing 11 lb. Oh great.

Cheers

To be fair, this is an expedition rated tent. Still, that's heavy.

I bought the Black Diamond StormTrack 2 for mountaineering trips. It was really roomy, and at 7lb, felt more storm resistant than a UL alpine tent would be. It would be hard to justify an 11lb tent to me.

I think the First Ascent tent is trying to compete with the North Face VE-25, which appears to be "the" standard expedition tent by which most others are compared.

It gets worse.
http://www.eddiebauer.com/EB/Bags--Gear/Camping/index.cat?oessoa=6046088&cm_mmc=email-_-647-_-A-_-shopnow


Your backpacking tent
http://www.eddiebauer.com/catalog/product.jsp?ensembleId=42691&categoryId=28789&categoryName=BACKPACKING&pCategoryId=28781&pCategoryName=CAMPING&gpCategoryId=5&gpCategoryName=BAGS--GEAR&ggpCategoryId=1&ggpCategoryName=EB&catPath=~~categoryId=28789~~categoryName=BACKPACKING~~pCategoryId=28781~~pCategoryName=CAMPING~~gpCategoryId=5~~gpCategoryName=BAGS--GEAR~~ggpCategoryId=1~~ggpCategoryName=EB&viewAll=null&pg=1

Edited by Meander on 04/03/2012 10:23:36 MDT.