Mountain Hardwear
Mountain Hardwear Trango 2
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The Trango has been the American expedition tent for thirty years, and the numbers show what that job asks for: 40 square feet for two people, and only 38 inches of peak height. Twenty square feet each is the roomiest per-person figure in this catalog, tied with the Nemo Chogori, because the tent is somewhere you wait out weather rather than somewhere you sleep. Eight and a half pounds and $1,050. Mountain Hardwear's own site returns 403 to automated requests, so the fabric details are not captured here.
Floor area per person
20.0 sq ft
Roomy — over 17 sq ft each — room for packs inside and to sit up without hitting
Weight per person
4 lb 5 oz
from the trail weight of 8 lb 10 oz
Peak height
38 in
Approx. price
~$1,050
Best for
Expeditions and big alpine objectives where storm days inside are part of the plan.
Specifications
- Type
- 4-season
- Rated capacity
- 2-person
- Floor area per person(estimated)
- 20.0 sq ft (roomy)
- Floor area
- 40 sq ft
- Peak height
- 38 in
- Minimum trail weight
- 8 lb 10 oz
- Packed weight
- 9 lb 10 oz
- Weight per person(estimated)
- 4 lb 5 oz (trail weight)
- Doors
- 1
- Vestibules
- 1
- Freestanding
- freestanding
- Poles
- DAC aluminum
- Wall type
- double wall
- Season rating
- 4-season
- Approx. price
- ~$1,050
Features
- Low 38 in profile built for wind rather than headroom
- Freestanding pole structure for snow and rock
- Single door with a vestibule
- Also sold in 3 and 4 person
In its favour
- 20 sq ft per person is double a typical 2-person backpacking tent
- Low profile is one of the most wind-proven shapes in the category
- Freestanding, so it pitches on snow, rock or a platform
- A design with a three-decade record of surviving what it is sold for
- Sold in 2, 3 and 4 person on the same expedition structure
Against it
- 137.7 oz — eight and a half pounds
- $1,050
- 38 in of head height in a tent you might sit in for two days
- mountainhardwear.com blocks automated requests, so fabric, hydrostatic head and vestibule area are not captured here
Written from the published specification sheet, not from owner reports.
What owners report
No owner discussion has been collected for the Mountain Hardwear Trango 2 yet. Rather than summarise sentiment nobody expressed, this section stays empty until there is something real to read — the methodology page explains where these come from and why some tents have none.