The Best Budget Backpacking Tent Available? The Stoic Driftwood Backpacking Tent!

[@courtneyheiligenthal]

Awesome review! Picking up this tent from someone on Facebook marketplace tomorrow. Your review made me realize this purchase is a no brainer. Your wife will be in my thoughts and prayers.

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

I am glad that you enjoyed the review and thank you for the comments. I really like this tent Karen and I used it in the GSMNP in November of last year on the Goshen Prong Trail. It got down to the about 24 F that night and we stayed warm that night. I did not guy out the ends that night and that held in extra warmth. I am not sure how this tent will vent in warm weather , but if you open one of the vestibules you should be fine. This tent has a great design and the only real issue is that it is on the heavy side.

[@calebcrow2602]

hope your wife is doing good! thank you for such a good and in-depth review. Looking forward to watching your channel more

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

Thank you for the encouraging reply. Karen is doing really well after finishing up her radiation treatments. We are planning on getting out and doing a 3 day trip in a week! Thanks for watching and the nice comment.

[@gabrielgallello4959]

Good review. Thank you.

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

Thanks for watching!

[@EPH113]

Great video

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

Thanks for the visit and the kind words.

[@chriswho6794]

Nice video! I'm surprised there isn't more reviews on this tent. Thanks for reviewing the tent. With that green mesh, how does it do for stargazing on a clear night? footprint options?-or maybe not needed if the floor is that durable?

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

That is a really good question about star gazing and honestly I do not know as it has been below freezing when we have used this tent. However, when doing the review I was able to see through the mesh pretty good. I always used a nylon 6' x 7' tarp under my tents maimly to keep the bottom of the tent clean and dry. I hate packing up a tent with the bottom wet and dirty. This tent is made of 75D polyester which is pretty thick material so you would probably be ok without a footprint. Thanks for the comment. I just noticed that they have these on sale through Amazon for $60 USD right now.

[@za-jm8wf]

Good video!

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

@@za-jm8wf thank you!😊

[@viridis7866]

I like this one! It looks so roomy!

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

Yes, it is very spacious and warm too. We just used it in the GSMNP when it got down to 23 F.

[@jennfalcon8290]

Thanks for your video. I watched it last week. The labor day sales on a bunch of sites were already started. My old tent was an rei camp dome 2 which was probably 19 years old. When I started researching tents I was really annoyed that they all have this mesh. I don't want other campers to see me with or without a rainfly. I almost never got too hot in my tent, especially if I unzipped the windows, but was often too cold. So I didn't get the stoic 2 person, but ordered a LPS Mountaineering Tasmanian 2 Tent.. While setting it up in the living room I noticed that 1 it was bigger than I wanted, and 2, one of the poles was defective. So I had to drive to the nearest REI and decided to do a refund rather than exchange. So I'm back to contemplating the stoic because it is cheap at least and has a little less mesh. Maybe the mesh is good if you are in the Southern US., but here in New England even summer nights can get cold even if it is like 90 degrees in the daytime. All the reviews I see praise the mesh, but I can't help but wonder if it's just tent companies afraid someone will sue them for overheating or asthma attack or something. So the stoic is still on my mind, but do you know of any tents that have real walls on both the tent and the rainfly?

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

So, compared to other tents like my kelty All Inn 3 the Stoic does have much less mesh. I have used the Stoic when it was in the mid 20's for that very reason. It stayed about 10 degrees warmer inside the tent than outside. There are tents in the market that have even less mesh than the Stoic. The Alps Mountaineering Lynx 2 has less mesh and is actually about the same weight as the Driftwood 2 tent. It has a great deal of floor space , but narrows at the top. It is still a very roomy tent that sets up easily and I found it on sale on Amazon for $65.97 a couple of years ago. Amazon has it on sale right now for $129.00, but if you watch/ and search it a few times they will probably drop the price. Thanks for the comment and question.

[@jennfalcon8290]

@@boomersoutdoors8898 eeks! 20 degrees, not for me, but the lynx one is interesting. I did like you said and checked it out on amazon. maybe they'll lower the price and/or have a seasonal sale. Thanks again.

[@lucyhauser9366]

Thanks for this!! I keep seeing it on backcountry and wondering if I need to get this one...

[@lucyhauser9366]

update: it just came in the mail! My husband and I can't wait to try it out!!

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

Great! Let us know your thoughts about it.

[@FriedLexman]

Would this work in hot weather? I'm going to be out 2 nights in a month and don't want to be in a sauna. Any recommendations?

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

It would probably be too hot unless you could keep the vestubule open. The fly comes all the way down to the ground, and it does have a lot of fabric on the body. We used it in the Smokys last November when it got down to about 24 degrees F and it stayed about 8 to 10 degrees warmer inside the tent than outside. So, it might be too hot for warm nights for sure.

[@Gospel_Street_Preacher]

Stoic tents look alot like ALPS Mountaineering brand tents. 😮

[@boomersoutdoors8898]

You are correct. The truth is that there are several Mfgs. that have tents that are extremely similar. They are probably all made in the same Chinese factory with just slight variations. The Stoic tents do seem to have a few more bells and whistles than the Alps tents. They both seem to be really well made with mainly polyesther materials. The seem tape is applied well and I did not see any loose or hanging threads on either one. The main drawback on these tents is the weight and the ventalation is not great becasue they use a lot of fabric over mesh on the tent body.

[@Gospel_Street_Preacher]

@@boomersoutdoors8898 I have the Stoic Madrone 4 person tent ⛺ and it looks a lot like the ALPS Mountaineering Lynx tent. They even use the same flat pole 💈 clips