Exped Venus II Tent
by Exped, 3 Season Tents
Exped Venus II Tent
Slightly heavier than the Venus II Extreme Tent, Exped's Venus II Tent is a weather-resistant, 4-season tent for damp backpacking and stormy climbing conditions. Color-coded sleeves, poles and zippers make this near-freestanding shelter easy to set up, even if your hiking companion is new to the novelty of pitching a tent. Dual doors and vestibules make it easy to sort out your gear and tweak equipment completely out of the rain, sleet or snow. The opposing openings also accentuate airflow to minimize condensation while keeping plenty of airspace between the fly and canopy. Exped's Venus II Tent also has a gear loft that fits inside one vestibule so you can dry damp gear or hang travel towels out of the rain. If you need the weight savings of 100 grams and would like a silicone-coated rainfly for the soggiest situations, check out the Exped Venus II Extreme.
- 4-season design
- Ripstop polyester canopy with a UV-resistant finish and fire retardant treatment
- Seamless, rugged PU-coated taffeta nylon bathtub floor for absolute waterproof protection
- Near waterproof polyurethane-coated ripstop polyester rainfly is highly flame and UV resistant
- Three color-coded DAC Featherlite SL 7001-T6 poles with 9-mm. and 9.8-mm. diameters
- Sized for two adults
- Average pitch time: 2 minutes
- Color-coded, reflective and glow-in-the-dark zipper pulls for easy identification and access in low light
- Color-coded poles match color-coded continuous sleeves
- Vents above vestibule spaces
- Gear loft inside one vestibule for damp clothing and other essentials
- Outer fly can be pitched alone
- Interior height: 45 in.
- Floor area: 30 sq. ft. (2.8 sq. m.)
- Vestibule area: 25 sq. ft. (2.3 sq. m.)
- Packed dimensions: 17 x 6 in. (42 x 15 cm.)
- Minimum weight: 6.4 lbs. (2.9 kg.) (including poles, fly and main compartment area)
- Packed weight: 7.5 lbs. (3.4 kg.)
Reviews - Exped Venus II
wasabi -
8/11/2009
Great tent!!
I love this tent, easy and fast to set up, so many great designs, and seems very durable. I just spent a few nights out in NH white mountain range and this tent stood up really well. Also when it gets dark I appreciated the ease of set up. One thing I didn't like was the choice of color for inside, they are yellow and I just didn't like that (I prefer more earthy colors to match the outershell which is green) anyways this is a great tent and you will be happy.
Anonymous -
6/12/2008
It's an amazing tent!
This is an amazing tent. I and my kids have owed many tents (MSR, Marmot, Eureka, Sierra Designs, etc.) and this is my favorite. Its so versatile youll be wowed by the design. Just a few high points: (1) left and right walls of the inner tent stand straight-up vertical, creating huge inner space for no extra weight, (2) two very large vestibules allow gear stowage for two hikers with room to spare (really!) (3) tent can pack down with the rainfly attached, allowing for totally dry setup in torrential rain in less than 90 seconds (really!); (4) if you pack the poles separately, the tent & fly cinch down to about two-thirds the size of a two-liter bottle; (5) great ventilation with no condensation even in the rain; (6) Im 64 and fit with a little room to spare both sitting and lying down, even using a Big Agnes or Exped inflatable pad in the snow; (7) green and amber colors easy on the eyes, (8) has about a thousand tie-down points (maybe not a thousand, but a bunch) so its not going to lie down in the wind, even on the beach. This is the ultimate kayaking tent and its great for hiking too. Stands up to the snow and has convertible doors. Issue: Its not really fully free-standing, you need to stake the doors to support the tent body, but thats only a total of two stakes, and youre going to stake them anyway if you use a fly. Nothing compares except maybe the Marmot Swallow, but the Swallow takes up double the packsize volume, weighs many pounds more and doesn't have two full vestibules.
Riley -
6/27/2007
Waterproof, rugged, and roomy
I recently spent almost two weeks kayaking in the back country of Alaska. While the Exped tent is heavier than most of the other tents, mine held up to wind and rain far better than anything else (but it did need to be staked). It has AMAZING vestibule space and was the envy of everyone on the trip. This is probably the easiest tent I have ever pitched. It was great that the inside part of the tent was attached to the rainfly in such a way that I didn't have to mess around with trying to get a tarp over a mesh screen in heavy downpours. When I signed on for the trip, I was advised to also get a ground sheet despite the fact that the folks at Outdoor Research in Seattle told me I wouldn't need one. Well, the ground sheet is well worth the purchase... as a TARP when trees are available near the tent for additional coverage. On the wettest days, even those when I could not set up the groundsheet as a tarp, not an ioto of water got inside the tent. Additionally, the tent packed up nice and dry provided I removed the inside part of the tent from the rainfly, prior to packing it up (I'm 5'3" and was able to scramble around under the rainfly to unhook everything). I found that when setting up the tent, it is easiest to peg the 4 corners before inserting the poles. There are way too many features to
