MSR Hubba Question

[mountnman]

I'm looking at buying the MSR Hubba as my 3 season tent, but I have a concern about setting it up.

If it is raining, how do you prevent the water going through the fly mesh on the inner? As far as I can see you have to erect the inner tent before the rainfly can go on.

It might be a simple answer, but I'm puzzled at the moment.

[eggs]

I have a Hubba Hubba, but the principle is the same.

Erect the frame and throw the outer on to it. You can peg the outer - or wait till it is all up.
Once this is in place as a shelter you can slide under and add the footprint and the inner - by lifting the corners to clip the floor parts in & by sliding the clips along the roof line under the outer fly.

Should be very easy.
We sometimes use our Hubba Hubba as a shell in the Flinders - just the outer and a footprint - no inner.

[mountnman]

Thanks for that eggs. It sounds simple enough, but I guess when I buy one (in the next few weeks) just to have a bit of a practice.

Does the frame stay up by itself? Or will it all be obvious when I set my own up

[eggs]

The Hubba frame is obviously narrower width than the Hubba Hubba - but they are easily flexed into position with the inner or outer fabrics holding them in place.

When I use the footprint as the start point - the 4 holes that the legs clip into arch the frame and hold it steady.
If you don't have a footprint, then you would probably want to peg one end of the outer, slide the frame in and then bend into position using the outer to hold it while you peg out the other end.

[kanangra]

As Eggs says with the footprint the frame stays up in tension held in place by the 4 eyelets one in each corner. The frame is one piece and has only the 4 legs. You will find it goes up really easily. I actually have a Hubba for sale that I have never used. It is still in the bag with all its original contents and tags. It includes a footprint. I have decided to let it go for $395 posted anywhere in Australia. Let me know if you are interested.

K.

[ninjapuppet]

If thats the MSR footprint, then thats actually a really good deal! If its not the original footprint, its still a good deal because buying overseas will hit you with a massive postage fee........that is if you manage to actually find a supplier that will ship to you.

Ive got a standard hubba and find that its a very high quality tent (but abit narrow)
Using the hubba without the inner during summer, is a very lightweight option.
Although... rumour has it that in the Flinders, big fat red juicy bullants reside..... I'm not too keen on having a spider share my sleeping bag.
Happened before.

[nickL]

i had a hubba and sold it recently after i replaced it with a tarptent moment - half the price and double the tent
the hubba is a well made tent but seems to me over engineered, very narrow inside, has average ventilation but no way of increasing or decreasing this, really small vestibule, unnecessarily heavy for SA conditions
the nicest thing about it is the pole design and that its free standing (useful to move it around and also tip it upside down to clean it out) - cant do that with a single pole tunnel
check out tarptent.com to see the whole range of tents
nick

[kanangra]

Yes it is the original Hubba footprint still in its bag. Like the tent never used. And yes it has now been sold.

K.

[mountnman]

Tent arrived yesterday, and as you have to, I camped in it last night. First observations:

I am in love!!!
It is very light (compared to my old 3.8kg monster....)
It is very easy to set up

It got down to 7 degrees last night, and I was quite comfortable. Where I live we tend to have a lot of fog/mist (as in sometime the sun might poke out just after lunchtime...), so there was quite a bit of dew on the fly, but there was also water underneath the fly. I'm not sure if this is condensation (which happens in 99% of tents...) or dew, BUT the main thing is that none of it dripped on either me or my down sleeping bag.

I now understand how I can put it up in the rain without getting the inner tent wet. I'd need to clip the footprint to the poles, and throw the fly over the frame (as eggs says).

Now for a field test! Just have to choose where to go....

[ILUVSWTAS]

It got down to 7 degrees last night,

MAINLANDERS!!!!!
Thats a heatwave for us!! Try -7

[mountnman]

Well originally coming from QLD anything less than 15 is almost unbearable!
Hence why I'm going to Magnetic Island for my honeymoon... Oh and in 2004 I was in Townsville when it was about 41 with about 99% humidity...

I'm trying to train myself for the cold! I've been down here for almost 3 years and slowly getting used to it... I plan on going to tassie in 18 months, so must get more winter walking in.

Oh, and I froze when I did a daywalk in the snowys in January!

[north-north-west]

Oh and in 2004 I was in Townsville when it was about 41 with about 99% humidity...

In Townsville? Driest area in FNQ. I've never experienced that sort of humidity there unless it's one of the two days every five years when it's actually raining.

[mountnman]

Rain is all it does up there from mid-January to mid-March. Rain and cyclones

[north-north-west]

Never has when I've been there. Maybe I'm just unlucky.