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Marmot Grid 2P Tent Review

but keep the midges out. The porch is quite roomy and offers sitting headroom. There is ample space for cooking and the flap in the fly has two double zips so you can adjust its position when cooking, or to provide a window on the world when relaxing. Magic!

The red outer and yellow inner gives a bright warm feeling to the interior, which I found very pleasant on one rather cold wet day. The Grid is very good indeed and would have been awarded 100% but for one annoying feature. When pegging out in strong winds. The front of the tent is secured by a single guy, see photo bottom left, which runs down across the porch, thus making entry and exit impossible without snagging the guy line. Perhaps the next version could have one guy each side of the flap, like the Hilleberg Nallo. On calm days this excellent free standing tent requires little, or no pegging out, so then this is not an issue. Dawn Smith - Ed

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SRP £290

Marmot Grid 2P has a good sized porch

Inner has fully lined door with noseum mesh.

Guy lines have strong fittings and easily fit onto rocks etc.

Front guy line close up

Marmot took on board the comments of their customers in the UK some two years ago and came up with a tent especially designed for the British Climate, the Grid 2P. Since that time the Grid has proved very popular and has become their top seller in Europe.

With this in mind I took the tent away for a few days wild camping to see how it measured up. I camped in forest and on the hill and found the tent coped very well on these various surfaces and pitches and can see why it has proved to be so popular.

The loan tent comprised the standard tent and the optional footprint. The tent, poles and pegs, came out on our scales at 2.7Kg and 3.1kg with the footprint.

From the moment I unpacked the Grid I really liked what I saw. The tent is made in China and exudes the high quality that is synonymous with the Marmot brand.

The Grid is a two person tent ideally suited for backpacking and cycle touring. I am 6’3” tall and whilst wild camping on my own, found the tent spacious, with ample sitting headroom, good storage pockets for my iPod etc and room for all my kit.

The Grid goes up as inner and outer together, making it quick and easy for one person to put the tent up, even in

The yellow inner is light and airy.

Ventilation panels can be adjusted from both inside and outside the tent, which makes life easier!

Quick and Easy Pitching

which forms the porch, but leave the ends free. Then put the porch pole into its end sleeve and the two cross poles into their sleeves and you are done. Easy.

The tent is free standing so if you want to move it to a better pitch, just pull out the corner stakes, pick it up with one hand and move it. One of my pitches was in the Penllyn Forest as the photos show. I pitched on a hard stony surface and used logs and rocks to tie down to. The guy lines are long and can be adjusted easily to fit around whatever you have to hand. Other manufacturers take note! The guys are attached to the tent with heavy duty triangles which means they are unlikely to tear and pull away in strong winds.

Ventilation in small tents can be a bit tricky, but the Grid has an excellent system, which can be regulated from both inside and outside the tent. There are vent flaps on the front, back and sides, which use an ingenious foldaway velcro and stay arrangement, together with a lined noseum mesh panel on the inner door to let air in,

strong winds and rain.

The DAC®Featherlite poles run inside continuous pole sleeves, which adds structural integrity and makes feeding the poles easier. They are are colour coded, Black for the porch and brown for the tent. Simple.

Just lay out the footprint, peg down the four corners of the inner tent. Looking at the tent from the front, work on the right side of the tent and insert the poles, starting with the black pole

Well Designed Ventilation

The only thing I didn’t like!

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