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Originally Posted by Atoyot1031
I'm pretty sure I'm going to pull the trigger on the Columbia Cougar Flats II tent. I found it at Campmor for $256.94 shipped. I really want a two room tent with a "real" wall dividing the two rooms (in order to just heat the kids portion). It seemed to be a good tent from all the reviews I've found.
What I'm wondering is if anyone has any experience with it? And if you do, my old Cabelas tent (which I love), came with all the necessary and auxillary tent posts and guy lines (sp?). My much more expensive North Face meanwhile only came with the minimum stakes and guy lines. So although there are many other options for securing the tent and rain fly, it didn't come with the tent.   Go figure. Anywho, any additional information would be most helpful. |
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Originally Posted by Lars
We have the original Cougar Flats model and it's a great tent. Although we only used it a few times before upgrading (to an RV), I can say it performed wonderfully ... including one evening in the worst rain/lightning storms I've been in. Everything stayed dry!
Great ventilation, plenty of room and no defects. It came with everything needed except a ground tarp. We used a big blue tarp from Costco which fit nice. I don't remember there being anything troublesome or awkward about setup. It was pretty easy/fast with two people.
Good tent. No regrets.
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Well I got the Cougar Flats II about a month ago. We're using it for the first time this weekend. So I figured that I'd best do a test run setting it up.
First of all, I must have misplaced the instructions or filed them with the warranty info, cause they weren't in the stuff bag/case. It didn't matter! This tent is highly intuitive to erect. Even the tent materials used color coordinate with the necessary poles. Instructions might have actually slowed me down!
I had it up in my carport, while watching the 8 mo. old baby girl in ~20 minutes on the virgin run. This thing is huge (15'x10' floor)! It appears to be well built with lots of thought going into the design. It appears that my research paid off on this purchase. I'll keep you posted as we get through the family camping season and it goes into hunting season.
My impressions are that I would highly recommend this tent for a family, especially since you can close off half of it (for the kids). We do this so that we can put our Mr. Buddy heater in with the kids to keep them warm, and we can keep the windows open on our side to stay nice and cool!
