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Drop X-Mid 2P Tent Designed by Dan Durston

Drop X-Mid 2P Tent Designed by Dan Durston

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Ultralight and easy to set up, the X-Mid 2P is our second collaboration with thru-hiker Dan Durston. With plenty of room for two, enjoying the great outdoors with a partner has never been easier.

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gimpster
57
Jul 23, 2019
This may come across as inflammatory but I'm genuinely asking this question to help inform my own purchase here. I've been waiting on the final specs to be released for this one and now that they're out, I'm comparing it to the Gossamer Gear "The Two". They are very similar in most specs (inside area, peak height, width, and length) but there are a few key differences that are important to me:
  1. Packed weight. The Two seems to be about 7oz lighter than this tent (when comparing the tent + fly).
  2. Vestibule size. The Two has a total vestibule area of 32sf vs 25sf with this tent.
  3. This one is subjective but from what I can tell The Two has a single layer tent design, which would make it easier to pitch while this tent appears to be a typical two layer design with a separate fly, which means more steps and time to pitch the tent.
  4. Price. Definitely The Two is the more expensive tent at $375 vs $250, but once the money is spent, all I'm concerned with is how well it performs for me when I'm in the woods.
I'd love to hear others thoughts on this comparison. For me, I'm leaning toward The Two based on the reasons above and despite the 50% higher price (buy once, cry once) but I'd love to be challenged on that. Also, does anyone know if the seams are taped on this tent?
dsowden13
26
Jul 23, 2019
Thanks for taking the time Dan, every step of the way haha, very informative and this post certainly sealed the deal for me. I'll be picking up your X-Mid in the near future for sure!
Sweetjond
68
Oct 17, 2020
I'm with @dandurston - doing some basic geometry with GG's own floor diagram, I come up with a little over 11,000 sqcm per vestible or 24.1 square feet of total vestibule area. So GG's claim of 32 sq ft seems to be a 33% overstatement if their diagram's dimensions are labeled correctly. Their diagram is certainly not to scale, as you can see comparing the 90cm edge (upper left) to the 110cm edge (right side). Given that Dan & I computed nearly the same vestibule area via two totally different approaches, I'm inclined to believe their diagram is labelled correctly, and the 32 sq ft vestibule area claim from their site is what's wrong.
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TheGlitchyOne
2
Mar 12, 2020
280 for a tent? Come on drop, you can easily do better than this. Way overpriced when there are windbreaker ones for about $100 less...
TheGlitchyOneI'm not sure what a "windbreaker" tent is (Does it serve double duty as a windshirt?) but the X-Mid is a high end tent built at the same factory as many premium competitors who sell tents in the $400 - $500 range. For example, the X-Mid uses premium YKK AquaGuard zippers which are rare even on $450 tents. Throughout it is using premium materials (custom coated high performance Sil/PEU poly), custom cutting edge fabrics, and hardware (e.g. ITW buckles). As a comparison, the MSR Hubba Hubba is another 2P tent built at the same factory. It lists for $450 vs $280, so the MSR is 60% more expensive while still using basic YKK zippers versus the YKK AquaGuard ones here, plus quite likely lower cost fabrics etc. The X-Mid 2P is a strong value for what you are getting because a lot more of the money goes into actually producing the product, rather than middle men and markup. MSR likely sells the Hubba Hubba to dealers for about $250 and then it gets marked up to $450 to the customer, whereas here Drop can offer you a much lower price by selling direct to the customer. It's a strong value for what you're getting.
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f4ucorsair
50
Mar 13, 2020
TheGlitchyOneSounds like the tent isn't for you, which is totally fair. It's not for everyone. But the price is an absolute steal.
bcharles414
6
Mar 4, 2021
How many Xmid 2p’s will be available? I see there are close to 4,000 requests!!
Halifornia
43
Mar 5, 2021
If you're worried you'll miss purchasing the item once it's back in stock, you can create some alerts:
  1. Create a filter in your email, and have anything fitting that filter forwarded to your phone as a text - this requires you hit the Request button here on Drop, which should trigger an email when the item is restocked. I used keywords such as "Durston", "X-Mid", "X-mid", etc.
  2. Sign up on a site such as https://www.backinstockalerts.com/stores/amazon/, where you can specify an item and your email, and you should get a notification in your inbox when the item is back (since this uses the item title on Amazon, it should also be caught by the filter you created for Drop alerts)
It's not foolproof but it's certainly another layer of pushing alerts, along with manually checking here and at Amazon.
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Mishatseu
14
Mar 6, 2021
HaliforniaJust did as you suggested. Thanks for the very helpful tip. :)
dellis
15
Mar 9, 2021
Looks like the Xmid 2P is now live on amazon.
I looked into this and Amazon only ships to France and some other countries from certain warehouses. The X-Mid 2P has arrived at the first warehouse so now it is on sale, but it will be about 1 week until they move some stock to their warehouse that will ship to everywhere. So unless it sells out before then, it should ship to France soon.
choggori
13
Mar 10, 2021
Thank you Dan for a clarification, it is (mostly) outside of your hands. Hopefully it works out fine. Reshipping seems sketchy, it's just a big purchase to risk it for me. I already got scammed a few years ago with a similar service, so not too keen on that option. Since the tent already sold out, I am not sure about it being available in a week's time for international buyers, but I guess there is nothing I can do about that.
nten
5
Sep 2, 2020
I setup and took down tent a few times and I have a concern. On the shorter left side panel on both sides, fly is super close inner tent mesh. Point of reference: as you are opening either door, on the left above the shorter inner tent to fly connection. Wind picked up a bit (10-15 mph) and fly touched mesh. After wind died down, sprayed sprayed tent with water lightly simulating light rain, and wet fly touched mesh. Tent was pitched tight & square per the instructions. Re-pitching and adjusting things (pole height, corner line tension, reduced tension on both top buckles of inner tent, etc) but could not get that space increased without some other side effect. This was on very level ground at home, so I imagine any non-level real world site out in the wild will only make it worse. Anybody having the same issues? Two possibilities are increasing corner guyline length, or increasing inner tent to fly connection line so inner tent isn't so close. Looking for some advice on how to fix, otherwise I'm sending it back.
Glad that is working much better. The downsides with putting the peak guy lines to the corner stake are: 1) All that load is on one stake instead of 2, so not as robust in wi day conditions, and 2) The more horizontal the guy line is, the more it anchors the peak (eg if you hypothetically anchored it straight down along the pole it wouldn’t really do anything). So staking it further from the tent gives a better/stronger angle. So for normal use it’s fine to not use them or to stake them to the corner stake, but for serious storms I recommend staking them out further.
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Tall_John
28
Sep 7, 2020
ntenIfs it's any consolation, I did an awful four corner pitch + 1 one guy in the middle of the night, during a storm and subsequently got poured on for four hours.... Not a drop inside, even with the same reduced gap you are discussing. I noticed it too. I think with practice my pitch will be better.
mab0852
61
Dec 18, 2019
Dan, any chance they will come out with a DCF version? ...or at least a DCF fly?
mab0852I'd really like to do this, but it's not in the plans anytime soon. I think a DCF version and a solid inner version would both be very popular so I love to do them but I have yet to convince Drop on that.
Seabass424
11
Dec 20, 2019
dandurstonAnother vote for DCF version. Love the design. No existing DCF options could compete
OlofSjo
1
Mar 7, 2021
It seems there will be at shortage of X-mid 2P when the new batch arrives. What are the possibilities that customers from abroad (Sweden in my case) can buy a tent?
Mishatseu
14
Mar 10, 2021
:( so sad, didn't manage to get one. :(
Dsands
30
Mar 10, 2021
MishatseuThere are another 400 available. Go get one! :)
Tall_John
28
Sep 2, 2020
I was planning to scramble two peaks today but had to abandon the trip... At 12:30am. Winds ~ 20kph gusting to ~40kph. Corner cordage kept slipping in sinch clips during gusts allowing slack to the outer. Re-tensioned three times between 8.30pm and 1130pm. Added tie downs to every single attachment and guy point using two rock method (only six stakes) Around midnight a gust ripped one corner cord completely in half, the other corner cord pulled out of the sinch tab. Jumped on top of the tent to protect from blowing away. Packed up, hiked from 12.30am to 2:30am to dense tress. Set up using four corner + 1 upwind guy method as I was bagged. Downpour commenced from 4am to 8am. Tent shed freezing rain/sleet well, even with for corner method. Stayed relatively dry during rain but had got wet in alpine blowdown already. Some seepage from zipper on upwind side as expected. Pretty disappointed. I will change cordage to larger diameter as Dan suggested previously. I'll carry stakes for every single tie point. I'll upgrade my poles to so they don't have shocks. TL; DR - Questionable stability in alpine gusts, bullet proof waterproofing/shedding. Super light. There didn't appear to be any damage from the blowdown other than some mesh bunching which is some consolation. Not bad enough for bugs to get in. You can see the fraying on the cord that lulled throug. Any suggestions or input is appreciated.
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Leang
18
Oct 6, 2020
Thanks, Dan! Good thing I asked before buying.
f4ucorsair
50
Oct 10, 2020
Since the Stratospire 2 came up again, I can relate to it being an awesome tent. And the sidecar is something the XMid doens't have room to do, and for the (probably small) use case of backpacking with kids, it's awesome. But, probably like the XMid in similar conditions, it takes some care and experience to pitch correctly with respect to wind, IMO. The Pitchloc corner, in particular, as mentioned above has a ton of leverage and, lesson learned, next time I'm going to double guylines at that corner to keep it still and try to keep the tent from becoming a sail again. I'm adding ~4ish feet of guyline to corners following the Skurka-ish method for flexibility in non-soil conditions. Curious if others have done something similar.
PaulLozanov
15
Aug 18, 2020
The tent looks absolutely amazing on paper. Certainly that's the tent every hiker was waiting for! As soon as I know lots of people asked about solid inner tent version. If you decide to do that, may I suggest you to make the version with windproof/splash proof solid side panels and mesh upper part? It will provide necessary protection from the wind and rain bouncing from the ground (some reviewers reported increased gap between ground and fly on uneven spots), but still will allow stargazing and ample ventilation. This will be killer combination that will suit most people and it will be lighter than all solid version. Anyway, if you ever decide to camp during winter, it's decent sleeping bag which will keep you warm, not the solid inner tent. Rain protection is valid all year round however. I really think solid panels is the way to go. Like if agree.
Thanks! I'll keep your thoughts/preferences in mind.
cruncheeee
31
Sep 3, 2020
dandurstonGreat, thanks Dan. Love your work buddy! :)
UPDATE: The X-Mid 2P is now sold out on Amazon.com but that is only the first 400 out of 1000 tents. The next 400 will be released soon. Not sure of the exact timing but hopefully tomorrow. If you want an email sign up for the list at the bottom of this page: https://durstongear.com/product/x-mid-2p EDIT: Next portion is now available. EDIT 2: 800 are now sold. 200 left which will be sold soon. Sign up for the email list at the bottom of this page to be notified when those launch: https://durstongear.com/product/x-mid-2p
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nirmalsv
1
Mar 12, 2021
dandurston@dandurston Seems like I missed the 2nd batch of 400 as well. Do you have any info on when the next batch might become available?
nirmalsvI'm not sure exactly but should be in the next week when the last 200 go on sale. I'll send another email if you're on the notification list. If not, you can sign up at the bottom of the page here: https://durstongear.com/product/x-mid-2p
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