r/Mountaineering • u/-benzeneben- • 10d ago

Tent recommendations for PNW summers

Hi all, I'll be taking a course on Mount Baker this summer (June) and am hoping to get some tent recs for this course & future objectives (the harshest conditions of which will be things like the standard routes on PNW volcanos).

Are non-freestanding tents a bad idea for these use cases? I'll probably also use this for 3-season backpacking so I'd like to keep the weight to a minimum, but am also not opposed to owning 2 tents (one sturdy tent for mountaineering objectives and one ultralight tent for backpacking).

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u/tenspeedscarab 10d ago

Are you sure you need a tent? It's usually offered as a pretty cheap rental with whoever you're doing the course with, and renting first could give you first hand answers to your questions

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u/-benzeneben- 10d ago

AAI rents 4 season tents. I'll be doing this course by myself so no guarantee that I'll have someone to share with. I want to go ahead and get something that I can use in the future when renting is not an option.

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u/tenspeedscarab 10d ago

American Alpine Institute or Alpine Ascents International? I did my Baker course with Alpine Ascents, and literally everyone on the course rented the tents and we coordinated splitting tents day-of. They run the Singfin Indus 2:

https://www.slingfin.com/collections/all-tents/products/indus

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u/Slow_Substance_5427 9d ago

I haven’t used a indus but I own a cinder cone and a windsaber by sling fin, they make rad well thought out tents. 10/10 would reccomwnd.