I’ve owned a MSR Hubba Hubba HP tent for well over a year and it has become my favourite tent. Room enough for two but light enough to be carried by one.
The new updated HP models are now available in a more subdued green rather than just the YELLOW of the previous version. The green is light enough not to prevent light getting into the tent making the inner a much pleasant place to be.
Specification:
Colour: Pale Green
Capacity: 2 person + gear
Floor + Vestibule Area: 29 + 17.5 sq. ft./2.8 +1.6 sq. m
Interior Peak Height: 40 in./100 cm
Flysheet weight: 648g / 1lb 7oz
Inner tent weight: 598g / 1lb 5oz
Poleset weight: 478g / 1lb 1oz
Total weight: 1804 / 4lbs (assumes ultralight pegs used)
Footprint weight: 270g / 9.5oz
Total Fly with Footprint & Poleset weight: 1476g / 3lbs 4oz (assumes ultralight pegs used)
Hubba Hubba is essentially a free standing tent. The green anodised pole (that becomes 1 x piece) holds the inner taught and the outer is then slung over the top. This is a really easy set up and if wanted the outer or inner can be pitched on its own. I opted for the Hubba Hubba footprint. It adds a great deal of protection for the tents groundsheet for a very small weight penalty.
The poles setup creates an inner tent with near vertical side walls which gives the Hubba Hubba a really good roomy feel. For a relatively small footprint the design maximises the space available. I find the Hubba Hubba big enough to handle a couple of Thermarest Neoairs side by side with room to spare.
Two doors and therefore two porches in which to store kit is great and gives a little bit more flexibility when pitching the tent in varying weather conditions. Each end of the fly also incorporates a vent system which can be held open or closed depending on the prevailing conditions. The guy lines are of a good quality and a sensible length. MSR are pretty tight when it comes to supplying enough/spare pegs which gives a slightly false weight reading, so I added a couple of additional pegs to ensure I had enough for all of the pegging points, the guys and to have a couple spare.
Getting the fly lined up perfectly can be a little bit tricky and getting the everything snugged down and in place can take a little bit of time. It’s well worth doing and once you have pitched the tent a few times you find it doesn’t take long to get everything lined up and perfectly pitched.
I plan to give the tent a good hammering over the course of the next couple of months and also have the extended porch to test out.
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