So, although you can sit up in both tents, the PYRAMID is not, and does not, feel as spacious as our Glencoe 1/TOPWIND 1. The pyramidal shape effectively provides less internal space than the TOPWIND 1, and you do feel you are much closer to the sides of the inner tent mesh, however, there are tie clips that attach the inner to the fly in order to prevent the inner sagging too much. The PYRAMID tent has the same inner tent footprint as our Glencoe 1/TOPWIND 1 tents, but due to the effective A-frame set up, the sides of the tent are at a much shallower angle. It should also be noted that the PYRAMID tent can be used with just the flysheet and a single walking pole if required. Once up and stabilised with guylines, the tent looked pretty good. Incidentally the measured distance was from the very top of the walking pole handle, to the cup - the 60cm spike below the cup was secured into the ground so did not affect the total length. It turned out that we had extended our poles to 126cm, so 6cm more than recommended by the manufacturer. Our walking poles are the telescopic sort, and not knowing what length we had ours set at, we left one pole extended in order to measure it later. We pegged the flysheet out roughly to start with, then adjusted each peg to provide a nice even, taut shape. So, it is by no means complicated, it simply requires you to get the initial walking pole settings correct. Then you simply drape the flysheet over the top and peg out evenly. Once you have done this, it will stand up by itself. With the PYRAMID tent, you firstly lay out the inner tent, peg the four corners and then insert you walking poles into the sleeves at the top. This is one reason why you might need a bit of practice erecting this tent as at any given length of walking pole, the angle you set them in the ground will obviously make a difference to the effective height of the tent, and hence how the inner and flysheet hang. Anyway we were pretty sure we had our walking poles set too long, so we shortened each one bit by bit until the flysheet nicely met the ground on all sides. The problem was that we did not happen to have a tape measure with us at the time. On reading the instructions attached to the tent bag, we saw that the recommended walking pole length is 120cm. When we initially set the tent up, the flysheet would not come down to the ground on one side, and we quickly realised that we had our walking poles set too long. Unlike the TOPWIND 1, we would strongly suggest that you set this tent up at least once before you intend to use it just in order to get a measure of it. The fact that it employs your walking poles was always likely to make this a more challenging first time set up than the TOPWIND 1, and indeed it did take us a little longer.

Setting up the PYRAMID was in complete contrast to the TOPWIND 1.

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