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The lightheart Solo is 11 feet long. I might buy that one. Im not a super big guy. I am 6'4, 205lb


I'm about 5' 10" and I've got a LH Solo. It's a fine length for me, but I wonder how comfortable at 6'4" person would be in it. Yes, it might be 11' long, but it narrows quite a bit towards both ends. Particularly if you have a relatively 'tall' (air) mattress, you could find yourself concerned at times about the ends of the sleeping bag touching the long ends of the tent, and just generally in finding it hard to sit up or lay back down without scraping tent fabric along your head.

The LH Solo is a great tent, a good hybrid that to me is the weight of a single-wall tent, but "almost" a double wall tent in function. Catch is, the place where it's most like a single walled tent is at the long ends, where the sewn-in fly gets ever closer to the tent wall fabric.

I suggest that you consider instead the Lightheart SoLong 6, http://www.lightheartgear.com/index.php/tents/lightheart-solong6-tents/product/view/7/7

Agree totally with the other comment about stronger/better stakes at the two long ends. For other guy-out points, something like a ti shephard's hook is fine; I used to use MSR needle stakes throughout and that almost always worked fine, but now I have beefier stakes just for the two tie-outs on the long axis.
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