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Durston - X-Mid 2 Solid
Durston - X-Mid 2 Solid
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The X-Mid 2 Solid has been updated for 2025 with redesigned pockets, dual fly zipper sliders, improved hardware, and high precision narrow seams and seam tape. The result is a more functional tent at a similar weight.
Pinnacle of Lightweight Tent Design
The X-Mid 2 Solid is a variant of the award winning X-Mid 2 that is tilted more towards use in the shoulder season, cooler conditions, and wind-swept areas like Northern Europe, while remaining an excellent all around backpacking tent. Like its sibling, it has been developed from the first principles of geometry to be the most weight efficient design for a trekking pole shelter. No comparable tent under the 2.5lbs (1.1kg) mark offers such a well rounded mix of stormworthiness, spaciousness, and simplicity, which is why the X-Mid 2 has become one of the most popular and highly awarded tents in recent years including top awards from BackpackingLight, The Trek, and Section Hiker.
Most ultralight tents are designed more as fair weather shelters where they achieve their low weights by compromising in durability and stormworthiness. With the X-Mid 2 Solid, performance in tough conditions is a top priority, therefore the X-Mid saves weight through efficient design. This allows us to make a tent that is both ultralight and capable for tough conditions.
The X-Mid 2 Solid has a comprehensive set of protections including a full doublewall design, full coverage fly (extends low to the ground to blocks drafts and splatter), fly first pitch (keeps the inner dry during setup in the rain), polyester fabric (doesn't sag and loosen like nylon), large adjustable vents, robust waterproof coatings, durable 20D fabrics, factory waterproofed seams, and protected doorways that keep rain out even when open. No other tent offers this full list.
USER FRIENDLY
When you're tired at the end of a long day or the conditions are rough, it's essential to have a tent that performs simply and intuitively. To achieve this, the X-Mid 2 Solid is designed from obsessive attention to detail and from Dan Durston's extensive backcountry experience.
The result is the X-Mid's simple pitch with only 4 required stakes. There are no mandatory guylines, odd angles, or guesswork, which is a refreshing contrast to most trekking pole tents that require numerous stakes, guylines, and struts as part of a complex pitching process.
The eye for usability continues when the tent is set up including large doorways that are not blocked by trekking poles, roomy vestibules that are located beside the doors instead of blocking them, magnetic door toggles, a collection of 4 thoughtfully placed pockets, and one handed operating zippers.
Even the packed size of the tent has been obsessed over and optimized into a short shape that can store horizontally in any pack.
SPACIOUS
The patented X-Mid geometry is the most space efficient architecture possible for a dual trekking pole tent. It accomplishes this with an innovative design that sets the two poles further apart for greater volume and headroom, while keeping them set back from the edges to avoid a boxy shape that would be less stormworthy and require more fabric.
The result is a generously sized 2P tent that provides ample space for two adults. That includes a 52" wide floor that fits the widest pads, and a long 92" length that accommodates hikers up to 6'4". The diagonal ridgeline also allows the two occupants to move further apart for greater personal space.
The dual vestibules are also generously sized and accommodate large packs and everything else - all without blocking the doorways.
QUALITY
The X-Mid 2 Solid is built at the most experienced tent factory in the world, who have been building nothing but premium tents for nearly 70 years.
In partnership with them, we go beyond high standards to specify premium components and robust construction methods including full double stitching, double folded edges, waterproof seam construction, and generous bartacking. We know of no other tent that uses double stitching as extensively as we do.
This focus on quality gives the X-Mid 2 Solid a higher cost of production than competing tents, yet the X-Mid 2 Solid is priced affordably because we sell it directly to you with only a slim markup.
PATENTED GEOMETRY
The X-Mid shape has been developed from the first principles of geometry to be as weight efficient, simple, and functional as possible.
That includes avoiding all the common pitfalls of trekking pole shelters such as a complicated pitch, mandatory guylines, poles blocking the doorways, and a lack of interior volume.
The X-Mid 2 Solid is a spacious and simple ultralight tent that shines when the weather turns challenging. It's a well rounded tent ready for everything from hillwalks in the UK's Lake District to remote traverses of Alaska's Brooks Range.
Specs:
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Weight:
- Fly: 21.8 oz / 620 g
- Inner tent: 15.7 oz / 445 g
- Complete tent: 37.5 oz / 1065 g
- Stuff sack: 0.5 oz / 15 g
- Typical set up (tent, stuff sack, 6 stakes): 40.3 oz / 1145g
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Dimensions:
- Floor length: 92" / 2.34 m
- Floor width: 52" / 132 cm
- Floor area: 33.2 sq ft / 3.1 sq m
- Peak height: 48" / 122 cm
- Fly footprint: 83 x 100" / 210 x 254 cm
- Vestibule area: 11.5 sq ft x 2 / 1.1 sq m x 2
- Packed size: 12 x 6" / 30 x 15 cm
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Materials:
- Canopy: 20D Sil/PE Polyester 3500mm HH in Alpine Sage
- Floor: 20D Sil/PE Polyester 3500mm HH in Grey
- Inner fabric: 15D Ripstop Nylon in White
- Fly zippers: YKK #5 AquaGuard with buckles
- Inner zippers: YKK #3
