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Hi guys! I am here to report on my new tent: The Vango Radon UL 2! I really enjoyed using it in Turkey backpacking trip! Thanks for all the advice about the tents, it helped me a lot and eventually pushed me to go for this one. I walked some parts of the Lycian way, quite rocky but we managed to find a lot of good campsites. I might do a trip report later. Back to the tent.

It is definitively spacious enough for me and my backpack, which is why I bought it. If sleeping with 2 people inside, the backpacks do fit in the vestibules, of which there are two (both evenly spacious). The tent feels very sturdy, also in the wind we had. The weight of 1.95kgs was a great upgrade for me, so really happy with this as well. The durability seems great too. The Lycian way is very rocky and even with campsite rock-cleaning it will still have sharp very small rocks to endure and it withstood them. All in all really happy about it!

At first, I did a lousy job at pitching the tent (small spot, haste, unnecessary to do a good job, ...). Thereafter, it was very easy to pitch it in a hurry. However, I did still encounter some things I would like to hear your thoughts about.

Firstly, when camping in some areas, in the morning the inside of the outer layer was moist due to condensation. Is there any way to reduce the condensation? Definitively not an issue on most nights (probably only 2/10 nights). How would one go about realizing this in practice? Which strings to pull ;)

Secondly, the fabric is very quickly under quite a lot of tension, especially at the single pole end (see picture one). Is this intentional, harmful, or something in between? If I should put it up any other way, how would I go about it? Thanks!

TLDR; Really happy with the tent, it feels quite premium to me :)

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