Portal 2

I took my time shopping for a tent and have owned my Portal for a few years now, it still looks brand new. I love the tent design and durability is top notch. Pockets make this little tent feel like a car camping tent. Lots of features. Easy to love. Not the lightest, but certainly best tent out there if you want a free standing backpacking tent in my humble opinion. Quiet and secure in big storms. I sometimes don't even realize it is windy until I unzip and notice the storm.

I´m based in Germany and bought this tent for my solo bike packing trips. First test was a 4-day-tour along the Rhine and Mosel in the late summer and I was completely satisfied with the performance of the Portal 2. There was a lot of condensation next to the rivers and my concern was that it would be very difficult to keep the inner dry because of its mesh. But all in all it worked really well and I didn't have much issues with a wet sleeping back or gear. Packing size is a very important factor for me since I prefer to travel with only a pair of Ortlieb Backroller Classics but the Portal is also really nice regarding this point. If you'd strap the poles to the top tube of your bike and compressed the tent it's really small. The only suggestion for making it perfect...Add some cords to the pegs!:-)

I don't normally leave reviews but I felt compelled to write some for a few choice gear selections following a recent unforgiving Alaskan tundra backcountry caribou hunt. My Slingfin Portal 2 tent happened to be one of the notable ones. The muskeg covered terrain and extremely wet late-summer conditions, although anticipated, were a challenge. Paired with heavy winds due to lack of vegetation, I was especially concerned about leaving my tent unsupervised when afield.

To enable peace of mind, I was prepared and paired this tent with eight MSR Cyclone tent stakes. At ten oz, this was a tad heavy considering the tent is only around three lbs. After all, ounces equal pounds and pounds equal pain especially hiking in and out several miles... However, I justified the added weight and was glad that I did. The tent was anchored like a rock and shed driving rain excellently. I currently live in the coastal PNW so can further attest to the tent's performance in rainy and windy conditions. I'll add that I would not consider getting anything smaller than a two-person tent for hunting purposes. The additional space is nice to keep high dollar weapon(s) and gear out of the elements while enabling some nighttime drying. Highly recommend this product and company!

Pros:
-Durable
-Waterproof
-Structurally sound
-Quality
-Relatively lightweight

Cons:
-Expensive (buy once cry once)

I just took this tent for 6 days in the High Unitas. Had some rain. Had some cold. It was a perfect tent. I’m not a super experienced backpacker but this tent was light and easy to set up. One day I set it up fly first in an absolute deluge of rain and had a great experience with it. Having a matching reflective tab that lines up the footprint, fly, and tent- so brilliant. The vestibules made it possible to cook in the rain. No condensation or wet inside the tent because of perfect guy lines. Thank you SlingFin. I’m headed back out this weekend because this tent made me feel like getting out there more.

The best 2-person ultra-light backpacking tent I've every owned! Just returned from 5 days in Oregon's Eagle Cap Wilderness during which I experienced two nights of severe winds and torrential rain from fringes of the hurrican that hit southern California. The tent performed perfectly...slept dry and secure, no problems whatsoever. The interior design is spacious (for one person) and makes it easy to sit up and prepare food while waiting out storms. I think I counted 7 interior mesh pockets to store stuff in and maybe 8 interior rings to hang things from....nice for drying stuff out. Once I figured them out, I really like the toggle design for attaching the rainfly to the tent poles. Sitting up the tent is a breeze once you get used to the toggles. The once very minor "niggle" I have is its a bit confusing and time-consuming to figure out the proper orientation of the rainfly on the tent body and I wasted some precious time in a downpour using trial and error, compounded by wind gusts blowing the slippery lightweight rainfly around. It would be very helpful if SlingFin would color-code (or flag) the two very-important rainfly toggles that guy the rainfly to the cross-pole -- finding these two toggles immediately and locking them in place are the key to setting up the tent quickly. The workmanship and quality of this tent is truly outstanding...good job SlingFin! I have maybe 8 tents on my shelf and this is certainly the best.