My new x-mid arrived just after Christmas. I have not taken it out on a trip yet,but after a couple of test nights in my local forest, I thought I’d do a quick ‘initial thoughts’ review because I am THAT EXCITED about this tent.

I have Sacro-Iliac Joint Dysfunction.

The Notch was my first ultralight tent, and I adore it so much I have named it.

The Hubba Hubba was my first backpacking tent. I used it on multiple trips, mostly in Norway and Scotland, and always in bad weather. Usually I was alone, and only shared it with another person for a couple of nights.

The Cape Wrath Trail is a ~240 mile mini thru hike crossing the mountains and circling the lochs of north west Scotland. While it has “trail” in the title, there is no such official route; rather the CWT is a collection of tracks, paths and unmarked ways which walkers thread together, however they choose, to chart their own course from Fort William to Cape Wrath, at the north-westernmost point of the UK mainland (or the reverse if you decide to do it southbound).