The StratoSpire Li is our lightest and strongest two-person shelter. Made with Dyneema®, this tent is ideal for trekking pole users who want the ultimate lightweight and protection. Simple and bomber, double wall, and double door, the StratoSpire Li gives you the freedom and security you want for a wide range of conditions.
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So get this. I took the SSli outer up the PCT..rainy pass to snowy lakes. About a ten mile jaunt in the most amazing colors imaginable. A zillion thru hikers finishing up. But on Saturday, with the weather less than ideal, there weren’t many on the trail. I had the whole section to myself which was great till I did the little side track up to Snowy Lakes…nestled on a larch bench at 7000 feet or so. Totally alone. The weather worsened and I went zipping about looking for an appropriate footprint for the SSli. The rain worsened and a wind came in, cold and damp, and I started hustling to find a spot. Now it was raining for real, about 36 degrees, and nasty. I found a bit of earth with soft ground and started the drill. I had the fly up in about two minutes and tossed my gear inside and sat on a pad kind of freaking out with the now whats. By now it was sleet, that turned to ice, and then snow. I hadn’t staked the tent perfectly so the street supported walls were sagging a bit. I had to keep knocking the ice off. Meanwhile I was trying to get into dry clothes fully aware this was a fairly dangerous situation. (By the way, all the PCT’s slept in parking lots at Rainy pass or safe camp sites on this night…and the next day everyone was drying out their stuff…and they were much lower than me.)
The snow and ice let up so I dashed outside and pulled all the lines tight and moved a stake or two, and added rocks to the v-struts. The guy lines you sent me worked perfectly and my ridgeline was taut as a banjo string. Then the pond startied forming at one end of the tent and I had to construct a little ditch to drain off the water. I had to sleep between the poles length wise as the normal way woruldn’t work…too lumpy and exposed to drainage from outside. My pad was at a slight angle making the night’s sleep an after thought…but not once did I feel a drop of water and my bag was bone dry in the morning, despite waking up to ice fog. The tent was coated in ice and yet I was perfectly dry and safe. In the morning there was a line of snow and ice around the entire tent which I used to add to my diminished water supply, Classic.
Winds were never severe but intense enough to make things dire, and something like the Contrail or Motrail would have been flapping and sagging given the hideous conditions.
In the morning, I packed up and had the tent fly down in about 30 seconds. I walked over to a rock, flapped it a few times, and folded it up. I couldn’t believe it…it hardly weighed more than normal. I was going to pack it on the outside of my MLD core but didn’t need to. It went right in the bag and was ready to go for another round had I been out for more than one night.
The ability to set that fly up by itself is brilliant. There were no bugs or mice so I was fine just sleeping on a light footprint thing and my coffin shaped Neo air…which by the way I can’t stand…I slide off those things and toss and turn all night.
I froze my ass off with my Montbell down hugger 900 25 degree bag. I had everything on I brought and my feet were cold all night.
So, dear Henry, your tent kind of saved my life. Thanks for building such a bombproof product.
Keith
Just took my new SS Li for its first night out in the mountains. Rained hard all night then sleet and wind in the morning, but I was nice and dry all night. I was going to try to wait out the storm but by 10 AM my campsite had filled with water and I was expecting fish under the tent floor (which remained nice and dry though slightly disconcerting as it is transparent and I could watch the water flow under the tent). Loved that there was plenty of room to hang my wet gear in the vestibule (the trekking pole made a good ‘hook’. Cooked in the other vestibule (I know, a huge no no in bear country but with weather that foul I figured even the bears were hunkered down somewhere dry). Was able to pack up completely inside the tent (would have been difficult in my Copper spur 1). The only thing I’m going to struggle with is finding sites big enough, it does have a massive footprint due to those lovely huge vestibules.
Double Rainbow 
Keith J –
So get this. I took the SSli outer up the PCT..rainy pass to snowy lakes. About a ten mile jaunt in the most amazing colors imaginable. A zillion thru hikers finishing up. But on Saturday, with the weather less than ideal, there weren’t many on the trail. I had the whole section to myself which was great till I did the little side track up to Snowy Lakes…nestled on a larch bench at 7000 feet or so. Totally alone. The weather worsened and I went zipping about looking for an appropriate footprint for the SSli. The rain worsened and a wind came in, cold and damp, and I started hustling to find a spot. Now it was raining for real, about 36 degrees, and nasty. I found a bit of earth with soft ground and started the drill. I had the fly up in about two minutes and tossed my gear inside and sat on a pad kind of freaking out with the now whats. By now it was sleet, that turned to ice, and then snow. I hadn’t staked the tent perfectly so the street supported walls were sagging a bit. I had to keep knocking the ice off. Meanwhile I was trying to get into dry clothes fully aware this was a fairly dangerous situation. (By the way, all the PCT’s slept in parking lots at Rainy pass or safe camp sites on this night…and the next day everyone was drying out their stuff…and they were much lower than me.)
The snow and ice let up so I dashed outside and pulled all the lines tight and moved a stake or two, and added rocks to the v-struts. The guy lines you sent me worked perfectly and my ridgeline was taut as a banjo string. Then the pond startied forming at one end of the tent and I had to construct a little ditch to drain off the water. I had to sleep between the poles length wise as the normal way woruldn’t work…too lumpy and exposed to drainage from outside. My pad was at a slight angle making the night’s sleep an after thought…but not once did I feel a drop of water and my bag was bone dry in the morning, despite waking up to ice fog. The tent was coated in ice and yet I was perfectly dry and safe. In the morning there was a line of snow and ice around the entire tent which I used to add to my diminished water supply, Classic.
Winds were never severe but intense enough to make things dire, and something like the Contrail or Motrail would have been flapping and sagging given the hideous conditions.
In the morning, I packed up and had the tent fly down in about 30 seconds. I walked over to a rock, flapped it a few times, and folded it up. I couldn’t believe it…it hardly weighed more than normal. I was going to pack it on the outside of my MLD core but didn’t need to. It went right in the bag and was ready to go for another round had I been out for more than one night.
The ability to set that fly up by itself is brilliant. There were no bugs or mice so I was fine just sleeping on a light footprint thing and my coffin shaped Neo air…which by the way I can’t stand…I slide off those things and toss and turn all night.
I froze my ass off with my Montbell down hugger 900 25 degree bag. I had everything on I brought and my feet were cold all night.
So, dear Henry, your tent kind of saved my life. Thanks for building such a bombproof product.
Keith
Eileen M –
Just took my new SS Li for its first night out in the mountains. Rained hard all night then sleet and wind in the morning, but I was nice and dry all night. I was going to try to wait out the storm but by 10 AM my campsite had filled with water and I was expecting fish under the tent floor (which remained nice and dry though slightly disconcerting as it is transparent and I could watch the water flow under the tent). Loved that there was plenty of room to hang my wet gear in the vestibule (the trekking pole made a good ‘hook’. Cooked in the other vestibule (I know, a huge no no in bear country but with weather that foul I figured even the bears were hunkered down somewhere dry). Was able to pack up completely inside the tent (would have been difficult in my Copper spur 1). The only thing I’m going to struggle with is finding sites big enough, it does have a massive footprint due to those lovely huge vestibules.