MSR Tents Explained:

MSR Venture Tents:
Backpacking, summer music festivals, or a weekend with friends—the Venture Series offers deluxe and versatile accommodations for the great outdoors. With a decided focus on livability, you'll find exceptional space, ventilation and a variety of configurations to meet the needs of just about any group size in any environment. All without a single compromise in the MSR commitment to providing the finest, purpose-driven designs and performance you can count on.

• Versatile Designs: Tents, tarps and group shelters for use everywhere from backpacking to rafting or car-camping.
• Maximum Livability: Space, ventilation and ease of use are maximized in every design.
• Full-Featured Detailing: Bound and seam-taped floors and flies, reinforced stress points, Fast-Feed™ pole sleeves, reflective guy cords, and user-friendly door toggles.
• Durable Construction: MSR quality standards ensure years of dependable performance.
• Bow Frame™: This perimeter tensioning pole provides near-vertical tent walls to extract maximum useable interior space. It also creates exceptionally roomy vestibules for additional gear storage and StayDry™ entries that keep the weather out while you're getting in.

MSR Fast and Light Tents:
Maximum space. Minimum weight. MSR's Fast & Light tents take livability to the extreme, offering ultralight options without compromising elbow room or durability. From bound and seam-taped floors and flies to virtually unbendable Needle™ stakes and reflective guy cords, Fast & Light tents feature all the details of tents weighing twice as much.

• Maximum Livability, Minimum Weight: The largest possible living spaces without sacrificing features or adding weight.
• Ultralight Fabric: New fabrics have allowed us to shave ounces from existing designs and build even more protection into new designs while still reducing weight.
• Full-Featured Detailing: Bound and seam-taped floors and flies, reinforced stress points, ultralight stake loops, reflective guy cords, and user-friendly door toggles.
• Innovative Designs: Hybrid tents and shelters can be set up using trekking poles, guy cords, or a combination of both.
• Proven Performance: MSR's Fast and Light tents have become the world's best selling and we couldn't attain that without providing uncompromised performance in the field.

MSR Expedition Tents:
MSR's Expedition tents are designed to stand up to anything. Serious snow loads, fierce winds, and driving coastal rains are no match for these all–season shelters. Innovations such as our Compression Tension™ design, our new Bow Frame pole geometry and intelligent ventilation ensure not just unrivaled reliability and strength but livability as well.

• Proven Design: Years of field and lab testing yield the best combination of strength and livability.
• Compression Tension Design: Unique pole-fabric interface provides superior strength for stormy high-mountain conditions.
• All-Weather Protection: Full-coverage flies and breathable fabric canopies offer protection from the coldest, most extreme environments.
• Livable: Ample internal room and critical vestibule space for storing gear and preparing food when conditions turn nasty.
• Peak Vent with Kickstand Support: Special door and roof venting features maximize airflow and prevent condensation.