LA Times- Vista 2

May 17, 2012

The first two-man free-standing tent that actually fits two full-grown men, due to a unique design with near-straight-up walls. Two people can sit up in this tent comfortably — an impossibility in other two-man tents that use the traditional X-pole design, which crosses two poles from corner to corner. The Vista 2 also uses X poles but gets rid of the sloping, confining sidewalls by adding two short "brow" poles that run horizontally from door to door, holding the walls straight up. It's a simple, brilliant, effective idea. While camping, a friend and I marveled at the room inside and didn't know what was more impressive — the Utah Canyonlands or this. Well vented, with plenty of zip-close mesh windows, and includes a rain fly.