What is the Blacktail 2 Hotel Bikepacking Tent?
This is a three-season, freestanding tent designed for two people and primarily bikepacking. It offers lightweight shelter and has specific bikepacking features to make your adventure a little bit easier.
What is it made of?
Fly: The fly is made using polyester, which is robust enough to take on more rugged or bushy environments without the additional weight and bulk. This material is treated with a waterproof polyurethane coating that provides a HH rating of 1500mm to keep you protected and dry in less-than-ideal conditions. All seams are taped to enhance the waterproofness and ensure that water doesn't leak through the stitching in heavy downpours.
Floor: Big Agnes has used the same material on the tent's base as the flysheet - lightweight, polyurethane-coated polyester. For additional reinforcement on rough or wet surfaces or if you'd like to create a vestibule floor, you can also purchase tent footprints separately.
Mesh: Mesh is used to construct the tent body/inner of the Blacktail Hotel BP. To be specific, it's a breathable polyester mesh that keeps your tent aired out nicely and provides versatility for humid conditions.
Poles: Tent poles comprise aluminium to provide maximum strength without excessive weight, making this tent easier to carry in a backpack for multi-day adventures.
What are its features?
Entry: The Blacktail 2 Hotel BP has two doors and two vestibules to maximise room in the tent, giving you space to store gear and backpacks in the doorway instead of your sleeping space. Two doors make the tent much more accessible when you're sharing the tent, so you don't have to worry so much about standing on your campmate when nature calls in the middle of the night.
Storm flaps on the vestibule zippers help to keep the weather out. Dual zips allow you to ventilate when needed without leaving the entire door open - when it is open, you can stash it into the door keeper to prevent it from flapping around in the wind.
Space: The Blacktail 2 Hotel BP has ample room for two people. If you don't mind carrying a little extra weight and prefer to have extra room for yourself, you could even use this on solo adventures too.
A symmetrical pole structure with pre-bent Shortstik 12" poles keeps the tent upright, and gives you just over a metre of headroom at its tallest point. The tent also comes with plastic clips that make it easy to attach the tent body to the pole frame for quick and easy assembly.
Storage: Four interior mesh pockets and two media pockets are handy for storing and organising essentials, keeping them accessible to save you from faffing around in the dark. Daisy-chain webbing loops on the fly, multiple interior loops and elastic helmet webbing on the inner give you alternative options for hooking other pieces of kit.
For storing and transporting the tent itself, it comes with a water resistant compression stuffsack that features a daisy chain webbing system, versatile enough to attach to various bike frames.
Ventilation: Plenty of ventilation options make the Blacktail ideal for warmer climates - two fly vents, a low-vent on the vestibule doors, and even the double-zip function on the doors allow you to draw in airflow, helping to prevent heat build-up and condensation through the night.
Guylines, attachments and pegs: Pre-cut, reflective guylines and tensioners already attached to the fly make this tent ready-to-pitch right out of the bag! Webbing loops on the tent corners are durable to keep everything in place and are held down using the included aluminium stakes.
Optional extras: As mentioned, for extra reinforcement you can separately purchase a Blacktail 2 Hotel BP Footprint to protect the underside of your tent and create a full floor with the vestibule included.
If you're seeking extra storage, you can also purchase a Big Agnes Gear Loft that allows you to hang pockets for your belongings above the sleeping area; this tent is compatible with the Square Gear Loft (also sold separately).
Features:
- 12" Shortstik Poleset
- Water-resistant compression stuff sack with daisy-chain webbing system for multiple bike-frame attachment configurations
- Daisy-chain webbing loops on the fly's exterior
- Elastic helmet webbing on exterior of tent body
- Extended footprints (sold separately) creates a vestibule floor
- Fly features one extended, pole-supported, side-entry vestibule, and one quick-access vestibule
- Storm flaps on vestibule zipper
- Symmetrical pole structure with pre-bent poles
- Dual-zipper door
- Quick Stash door keeper on tent body door
- Media pockets, two fly vents, Low Vent feature on the vestibule doors
- Ready to pitch; with pre-cut guylines and tensioners attached to fly
- Reflective guy lines and webbing on tent corners
- Multiple interior loops
- Footprint sold separately
- Two exterior loops for added attachment options
- Lightweight aluminium pole system with prebends
- Plastic clips attach tent body to pole frame
- 4 interior mesh pockets, 2 media pockets & 10 Big Agnes Dirt Dagger UL stakes
- Gear loft loops included (Gear Loft sold separately)
- Fast fly set-up available