SE Emergency Outdoor Tube Tent with Steel Tent Pegs

This tent is fantastic for survival tents! It's strong, durable, and easily keeps your body heat trapped. I love that it has a door flap on the front. However, I wanted this for my backpack. I have a really, REALLY large Teton hiking backpack. This just simply took up too much room after folding it back up to be a convenient backpacking emergency tent for my needs. My regular single person lightweight tent with collapsing poles took up less room. I had to buy a different brand that is tiny and compact. Other than that, which, that is more of a personal thing, I would recommend this emergency survival tent! My last thought is that it did not come with a stuff sack, which may have pushed this to a 5 star review. Again, it is still pretty lightweight, just not compact enough. I hope they consider a stuff sack or compression bag in the future.

I haven't done more that set it up but in the cold and rain, this is much better than a Mylar tube tent as it will keep you sheltered far better. Two adults will be a tight squeeze but these are meant for emergency shelter from the elements, not comfort. The package is much larger in volume ( buy 4x! @ 12x13" and ~1" thick) than a mylar tube tent however, so stuffing it into most lightweight 72 hour emergency backpacks will be a challenge.. I can put it into my personal 3 day bugout pack without pressing the sides, putting it flat against the hydration bladder divider. It appears to be made rugged enough for a month's reuse or more if you're careful with it. It will definitely retain heat, and moisture unless you open the flap. I may set it up on our first snow and try sleeping in it. It would be a good addition to a car kit, but then.... you could stay in your car....

This is kinda an impulse buy for me, the orange color, metalized lining and 82" length all pulled together to score a buy. I will review this tent over time and whenever I use it. First impressions upon unpacking, setting-up (indoors), folding and returning to original packaging. At first I thought the tent was orange fabric lined with metalized Mylar. It's actually a heavy Mylar treated with an orange coating. Feels and looks like fabric but does not have any fibers that I can see or (important) suck-up into my sinuses! I like this detail. I also see this material being easier to travel with as it should repel water better. The tent is large enough for one adult, fully clothed and a bedroll or sleeping bag. Keeping in mind it is not vented anywhere but the "door" opening and it is a fully enclosed metalized Mylar "tube" you will not want much in there unless it's going to get really cold. Under very cold conditions you will have to carefully manage moisture when you are in there as the tent is likely to be almost air tight. Snow blocks that door and you got problems. Put a distressed person in there in cold weather and you get a very warm but possibly moist person. Not a bad compromise in many cases. The stitching is good but I can not tell if it's sealed and some of the hems "turn" the wrong direction and moisture could gain entry. Not a big deal considering the primary function of this tent. The closed end of the tent has a brass eyelet through which you feed the suspension cord. The eyelet is somewhat protected by the tent overhang so unless you are worried that a bug will crawl down the cord and mix with your roasting self there's no problem here. The cord exits the door-end of the tent where there is nothing but the shape of the tent to keep it at the top of the opening. I tossed a binder's clip in the mix, my usual fix for most keep-stuff-there issues. The tent door is as shown, two flaps. They have several ties that serve to hold close and roll-open the flaps. The stake loops are not impressive but considering the total (lack) of real mass involved, they look plenty strong enough to handle the wind-load from the tent. The stakes are adequate for soft ground, you will hurt yourself trying to strike than with a hammer. They are curved at the top. I was hoping for total black-out as shown in the product image but the orange coating over Mylar construction allows light to enter through the material. My thoughts on that were; tent inside-out in direct Sunlight equals day shelter, and tent normal-side out in darkness equals visible. On the "visible" note, you can use the cord supplied to hang this tent from one end and it becomes a huge site marker for directing your friends to where you found the best camping spot! The whole thing looks really cool if you trigger a big slave flash in there in a dark room. :) I will review more when I get a chance to play with this tent some more. For now, if you have $30 flipping around in your pocket and want a huge orange thing to play with... here you go!

Nice

My strings broke 2nd time using it

Ok this tent is great for an emergency. It is true it has a cancer warning on the package but this is not something you would use everyday and it's merits outweigh, what I consider minimal health risks. It is the nicest of emergency tents I have seen and I have looked at a lot of them. Since I am a small female, I wanted a tent I could set up alone, that would be lightweight and fit my emergency bag. This tent folds up flat and it is very light. It is pliable so you can just slide it and it's plastic bag right inside a backpack and it will mold right to the sides of the bag. Unlike other tube tents this one comes with one end sealed and the other with rain flaps. You can always get better tent pegs and replace the cord with some military grade paracord. I just aired the tent out for awhile. I really don't see that the health issue is that big a concern in this case given that, by definition it is emergency shelter. Personally I am happy with the purchase. But if the health warning is an issue for you it is on the bag so you might want to keep looking.

This is a better tube tent than the plastic ones by virtue that one end is closed and the other has flaps that can be tied shut. This offers some wind protection and you'll stay warmer more easily. It won't keep all bugs out but if it's raining I don't mind swatting a few bugs if it means I'm staying dry. Just remember to add some clothes pins to keep the tent pulled tight at the top, and maybe replace the included rope with some paracord. The tent pins are a nice addition. It doesn't fold down very compact because of the thicker material. Unless you have a larger back pack this would have a better home in your vehicle emergency kit. I made a shelter kit with this tent including paracord, clothes pins, and just for fun a solar lawn light bought for a buck at the local big box store. When setting it up, be sure to have soft ground cover and use a blanket inside if possible because the durability of the floor material seems dubious against wear and tear at best. I wouldn't recommend making this your "regular" tent, but in an emergency it will be far better than nothing.

Please keep in mind that this tent is for EMERGENCY USE ONLY. Don't expect it to be more than that. Emergency products of any kind are only temporary and they are are not meant to last indefinitely. For what it is intended this tube tent is well made. Yes there will probably be condensation on the inside especially if the front is closed but that is true of any single wall tent no matter what it is made of. Keep the front open if possible. That will clear some of the moisture.