BOTTOM LINE
The Durston X-Mid Professional 2 is a well-liked tent in ultralight circles, and we will see why. It is light-weight, spacious, offers wonderful climate safety, and has nice air flow. However for us the X-Mid missed the mark in a couple of key areas. We nonetheless assume it is an incredible shelter for solo hikers who need a luxurious quantity of area with out a lot weight achieve over an ultralight single-person tent, however we’re not fairly as eager on this shelter when shared with a companion.
The place we appear to vary in opinion essentially the most from different accounts we’ve learn is on the matter of spaciousness. For us, the parallelogram ground form and the offset poles make the inside a bit awkward to occupy with a companion, as one individual will get the quick finish of the stick in the case of headroom.
The opposite key difficulty we discovered with this tent is that getting a pleasant, taut pitch with no sag was tougher than we wished. The big footprint and rectangular form may also make campsite choice a bit extra tedious than with different tents, and we’re not fond of getting to battle with an ideal pitch after a tough day on the path.
Durston nails lots of the particulars that make for a really nice tent expertise, like well-designed vestibules, good pockets, and excellent air flow. However for our two-person adventures, we discovered that the X-Mid fell a bit wanting our excessive expectations.