I think I found the 1 person tent I want. MSR Hubba. Anyone have one? Any information would be appreciated.
xman
MSR Hubba tent - Appalachian Trail
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#2
Have one and like it. Light and easy to use. Will carry it again from Springer this year.
Rattler
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#3
Thanks Rattler,
I have been doing a bunch on shopping and decided to go with this one. I saw another thread from a while back and pretty much everyone loves it. I will be taking it on my thru hike of the Ozark Highlands Trail in March.
xman
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#5
…The Hubba is probably a good tent, but I have had my MSR Zoid 1.5 for 3yrs. and am still liking it…even thou I think they have stopped making it…
Chairman
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#6
I love it…the door opening is nice and big which makes it so easy to get in and out of. Nice head room too for someone who is tall.
Virginia
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#7
I love mine, plenty of room at the foot area to store my backpack inside (I’m, 5’4") but have heard this from others too. I read somewhere that 3 men were able to sit inside during a rain storm in the middle of the day and had plenty of head room. Its easy to set up and take down too.
Lipstick
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#8
I have had mine almost 2 years and still LOVE it. Light and fast easy setup. Will wear it out before I replace it, and would replace it with the same.
buck
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#10
a bunch of friends of mine had it on their thru and they really liked it. the fact that it’s freestanding is nice on those Maine platforms.
0101
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#11
The Hubba weighs 3 pounds, 7 ounces. WAY too much for a tent IMHO. Try a Henry Shires Rainbow. Roomy as heck, and only 35 oz. with a sewn-in floor.
White Stuff
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#12
I had the Hubba and got rid of it. Great head room, but not enough floor space for anything but your pad and you. I went with Big Agnes’s Sarvis tent. It’s a half pound lighter than the Hubba with a lot more floor space at 2lb 15oz with 4 pegs. It’s free standing, sets up easy, and has great ventilation. Being a hybrid tent the fly is attached to the tent body making it very easy to just flip the fly over when bad weather comes. There’s enough room to pull all your gear in beside you. You can’t do that in the Hubba.
FDFMN
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#13
very good tent, i carried it all the way to vermont before i got hurt, will be carrying it again in 09 even though there is not much floor space and it is on the heavy side, its a great sturdy tent
flyingturtle
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#14
Ive tried using the hubba with just the poles, fly, and 6 stakes and it works well and shaves off near half the weight. Its drafty underneath in winds excess of 20+ mph using this configuration. I use a tyvek groundsheet cut a little bigger than the MSR groundsheet. It’s huge for one person this way.
Ohioan
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#15
I just got one at cabela’s for 14.00 the tent did not have a price on it . I asked the sales lady and she said that she did not know. She said that she had to move all that stuff and asked if 14.00 was to much of course I said no that would be find. That has to quailify for the buy of the year. I just to the tent on a section hike of the OT (ouachita Trail) in Oklahoma. The tent is light and easy to set up. I had 2 days of rain and no leaks. Can’t go wrong with an MSR product…
bigkingtut
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#16
I have used a MSR Hubba for 100+ nights, in 30+ mile a hour winds, rain, light snow with temps ranging from 105 to 15 degrees. The tent, fly, stakes and footprint together weight less than three pounds, drop the footprint to save 5 ounces. Plenty of room for one 6’ 230 pound person and needed gear for the night, backpack fits under vestible. Easy setup, under 2 minutes, double wall so no condensation, enough headroom to situp, freestanding and small footprint so you put this tent up in anywhere you can find a 6’ x 3’ patch of open ground. Most ultralight tarptents (including shires) I have used require you to find alot of open ground, hiking an extra 3-4 miles to get off a ridge or out of a swamp to find a place big enough to setup isnt worth the pound you save with tarptents. MSR rocks, plus I always get a kick out of watching tarptenters come out of their shelters wet after a rainstorm or humid night.
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