ALPS Mountaineering Extreme 3 Outfitter Tent Tan/Green/Tan, 96" L x 80" W x 50" H

I've only used the tent a couple times so far. It will be used on a very long kayak trip in a month, and I'll try to remember to post another review after the trip. I really like the tent so far. Like so many people point-out, the tent is really only big enough for two people. Three people would be nearly impossible. Two people and a medium-sized dog might even be a problem. BUT the tent is just as roomy as nearly any other three person tent I've seen or read about. The length of the tent is great. I'm 5'9", so length is not a big issue. But this tent has more than enough room for me to spread my sleeping pad out and still have room at each end.I am very happy to have bought the Outfitter version with the heavier floor and better & wider zippers. The zippers work very well due to the better quality and width of the zipper. It adds weight to the tent, but I don't care about an extra pound. I use the tent for kayak camping and will be using it for very long trips that will be literally months. I've kayaked with other people that have experienced broken zippers, bent poles and other problems when kayaking and camping. This tent is going to get a huge workout in a month. Hopefully it works as well as it seems to be constructed.The only rain that I got to experience was a brief shower in the night when the rainfly was not on the tent. I basically just threw the fly over the tent and went back to sleep. It was on a short camping trip to the Everglades in late April. The tent performed well in two short camping trips in the Everglades. The no-see-ums definitely could not get through the screens. My old (cheap) tent was like an open door to no-see-ums. Even though I have used the tent in hot weather conditions in the Everglades, I bought it for camping on kayak trips of major rivers, like the Missouri River which starts in Montana.If you want to camp in hot/humid conditions like in the Everglades, you might want to pick a tent with more screen and ventilation. I'll probably buy a second tent for hot/humid camping in the Everglades that is pretty much all screen other than six inches from the floor. I'm thinking about a tent made by Slumberjack to fit that niche camping in Florida. The screening provides enough ventilation for what I'm looking for without being clearly visible from outside the tent (without the rainfly).The aluminum poles have an aluminum insert at each junction of the poles. I've camped with people with aluminum poles that were simply designed to slip over the ends without an insert to make them stronger. I have seen those poles break and become impossible to separate when exposed to saltwater and sand. I'm not expecting a problem with the poles, but I'm going kayaking and camping on the Missouri River. The tent will be exposed to high winds quite often.I am a little bit concerned about how it will handle high winds. I would tie-off my old tent to my kayak in high winds. This tent only has two places to tie-off to when the rainfly is on the tent. Every person that I know who has paddled the Missouri River has had severe winds and been stuck in their tent for hours of high winds. We'll see how this tent handles that. From my experience, any tent needs to be anchored with rope in high winds. There is simply too much force for a tent wall not to buckle in high winds in unprotected locations along rivers when kayak camping.The one thing I do hate about the tent is that it is Made In China. I realize every darn thing is made in China, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Isn't it ironic that we import so much from China and so much clothing from Vietnam? These are two communist countries that we were actually in shooting wars with in the Korean War and the Vietnam War (China invaded Korea to save the North Koreans after a successful military invasion by our country). We import everything possible from communist countries that we have been at war with, but Cuba is treated as a pariah for being a communist country that exports mostly physicians to poor countries. I guess it all comes down to making money for the 1% while screwing the people that actually fought in wars in Korea (against the Chinese Army) and Vietnam. Think about that if you wonder whether the 1% cares about this country or its citizens. They mock everything patriotism means and do it with such ease. It's sick that so many people bow to the dictates of the 1% while buying a load of lies to keep them voting for Republicans. We are the evil empire spreading war and rumors of war across the globe.Watch for a follow-up review after many months on the Missouri River. Hopefully the titanium pins in my pelvis last that long. That's another story, but those titanium pins only get two stars for holding my spine to my pelvis.

The tent is a good quality car camping tent for the price. However the bag is too small to put the tent away easily. I would recommend that you find a slightly larger bag - be a duffel or compression if you want to pack up camp without hassle. I will update the review after I go camping with it in August for three weeks out to Yellowstone and the Black Hills.Edit : 8/25/2018 - After taking it camping for three weeks here are my thoughts. The rainfly is a condensation magnet no matter how well you ventilate it and the clips that are supposed to hold two poles together tend to not work well as there is nothing to keep the second pole from popping out of place - I would suggest a carabeener style clip if the company ever updates the tent. The mesh is already showing some small holes caused by the clips when rolled up and put away as they press into the mesh panels, and some stitching is coming undone on those panels where they meet the tent fabric as well. The fly is abit of a hassle to put on when you are by your self as it is large and heavy. All that being said it survived the Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. I will use it till it falls apart on me, at that time it will be replaced with a much better tent that I can look at in person.

I am not some hardcore backpacker or camper that had a lot of requirements when I was picking out a tent to buy. What I wanted was a high quality, durable, rainproof and easy to set up tent, and this has met or exceeded my needs.I watched a youtube video of the setup and it looked very easy with the two people that were doing the demonstration. It is slightly more tough to do alone the first time but now that I figured out the technique its not bad to do it alone. Im not sure its a realistic 3 person tent unless you can fit those 3 on a queen sized mattress comfortably. I put a queen air mattress in it and it just fits width wise, perfect for two people in my opinion. No problems in the rain, I set it up in the backyard and we had some severe rain and it stayed bone dry and that was before any waterproofing treatment! Good ventilation with the rain fly on and I usually just leave it on all the time.The durability is getting tested by my 95lb nearly blind puppy. He tends to go on these "crazy runs" and has plowed into the side of the tent and ran over the vestibules many times and although the vestibule stakes have bent there's no damage to the tent. I guess that is the one good thing about the somewhat crappy stakes it comes with is that they will fail before the fabric tears!

Trust me when I say, unless it's a tornado of hurricane, this thing won't budge. The material is sturdy, the tent is spacious for 2 adults (+ a dog or kids or two) but claustrophobic for 3. It'll fit three, don't get me wrong, but it'll be claustrophobic because of the slope of the sides of the tent.Biggest improvement is the zippers, I am paranoid of zippers failing because that's men a big problem with tents for me, but these are suitably beefy zippers, and the floor is good, but your gonna want the footprint, trust me on that.