Durston X-Mid Pro 2: Pitch and Pack

I show how I pitch and pack my Durston X-Mid Pro 2 ultralight backpacking tent in this short video. I do something different from what I have seen from Durston and others, so I thought I would share it with you.

The tent was previously folded up with a polycro / polycryo footprint that weighs about 51 g and protects the 15D Sil/PEU nylon floor of the inner tent from excess abrasion on granite as well as from mud and debris when pitched on wet and dirty camp sites. The footprint is cut as a parallelogram and matches the floor of the inner tent.

Pitch: I start by staking out the two opposite corners located across the LONG diagonal of the inner parallelogram. These corners define the rectangular area that the entire tent will fit in and also the level area where the occupants of the tent will sleep. Then the other corners are staked out making sure that the two edges leading into a corner are perpendicular to each other and form a right triangle with the long diagonal that was staked out with the first two stakes. Then the tent poles are added. Guylines from the peaks can be staked out for more stability if needed along with other stakes at the doors and bottom edges.

Pack: The tent poles are removed and the tent peaks are folded on to the staked out rectangular tent fly as shown in the video. Next the tent is folded lengthwise in thirds with the footprint still in contact with the bottom of the tent floor. Stakes are moved from the corners and doors to act like a second person helping me fold up the tent. The tent is folded in half lengthwise to make it one-sixth of the original 80 inch width, then folded over to put the corner spars close to each other. The footprint protects the folded tent and keeps it free of mud and debris. Finally, the tent is rolled up tightly from the fold and placed in a sack or wherever you want it to be.

Is this too hard or inconvenient? What do you think?

Thanks for watching!

Added 2023-02-13: I've been asked a few times in the comments about how/why the polycro sticks to the bottom of the tent floor and stays in place. My answer: It is not physically attached. It just seems to stay in place from static electricity, van der Waals interactions, hydrogen bonding or something else such as the fact that the way the tent is folded keeps it in place.