Moving Inside

The two Ambassador Master Bedrooms are very spacious, we used the Outwell Dreamhaven Double 10cm mat which left us with ample room to put our bags and bits at the side of our bed. We really loved the Quick & Quiet Inner Doors since their introduction, it’s lovely not to hear zips opening throughout the night, if you’re sharing the tent with people that are rising early and you fancy a lie in, you’re not disturbed. Our dogs sometimes need to go out early in the morning and it’s great knowing you’re not going to disturb anyone whilst attending to them. Bedroom doors are equipped with Outwell’s Quick and Quiet magnetic strips, located behind a vertical zip, which is ideal should you want a more secure closure.

My spine welcomes the full standing height across all the tent, with 230cm depth you don’t have your head touching the inner bedroom pod whist sleeping. Like you’d expect the bedrooms are dark and Outwell have also used the wonderfully regal blue that covers the side walls of the tent above the bedroom, making sure the rising sun doesn’t interfere with your slumber. Curtains over the large rear vents, combat drafts and allow for full air flow when you need it. Equipped with mains entry points in the bedrooms, should you need electricity you won’t trip over cables or need to leave your bedroom door unzipped. There’s ample storage in the bedrooms with pockets on the inner at the rear and the doors have pockets at the sides. Lastly the central divider is removable, should you want a large open bedroom area.

Living Area

At 11.78m2 the Living area is spacious and the additional side doors give you multiple entry points but also plenty of bug free ventilation for all doors have fully closable mesh panels behind them coupled with lower vents below the windows and the large vent that runs along the width of the tent at the rear, you have ample air flow. UK temperatures hit 32.2℃ this year so the more ventilation the better, condensation can be in issue in tents, however we had no experience of this in the Outwell Montana 6PE.

Back to the doors, the side porch is great for when you have bad weather, you can enter at the side with minimises the wind and stops any rain entering the main living area. Rain Skirts and the bathtub style ground sheet, make this area exceptionally dry you can leave your outdoor gear in there, helping stop water, mud or freshly mown grass entering the main tent. The side porch windows have curtains, and both an internal door that rolls away to the side and external door that rolls up. When closed this gives enough privacy to use the porch like a utility tent, we put our toilet in there, just to minimise the risk.

The long, tinted windows allow you to make the most of the views and they protect you from the bright sunshine, I’ve said this before I love windows with zip curtains, they allow you to adjust how much light, but also privacy. Outwell have included zip curtains on the windows of Montana’s large front door, the door can be rolled away to open up the living area on a warm day, the separate mesh panel behind the door can be closed independently of the door to keep out any bugs or keep in any people or dogs.

Above the door is a canopy, this gives you some shade for cooking and sitting outside the tent, it also provides some shelter from the rain. Zips are taped for added watertightness, and the front door as an added black fabric seam that protects the outer of zip from rain and wind.
The roof of the living area is white, it’s a great contrast against the blue and it also allows for ample light in the living area, along the roof runs Outwell’s HookTrack System, this hangs items up to the weight of 1.5kg, I used the clips to hold my rather long dress. We also used it for our light, but you can add strip or string LED lights and lines to hang tea towels our lightweight bathing towels to air after a shower.

Cable Entry Points are located on either side of the living area, so you don’t have to worry about where the EHU point is, if using one. The tent comes with a sewn in goundsheet, like you’d except! Not forgetting Outwell’s Easy Access System, the main door and mesh fold to one side and the groundsheet lies flush with the ground for safe, easy access, if prevents tripping but also make the tents easier to negotiate with pushchairs. I often use crutches, so these features help, if I catch my crutch on the doorway, I’m falling, and I don’t bounce well now I’m getting older. I would like to add that sometimes I use a wheelchair and believe me I’d rather push myself into the tent then have Carl trying to get me over the flap when I’m in agony.

Outwell’s Features

Power Stability System

A feature of the Montana, the steel poles are pre-bent making it a rigid steel pole system that gives increased internal space and headroom inside the tent.

OWS System Force 10

Rather than solely using plastic clips to attach the flysheet to the poles, a clever feature of Montana is the Outwell Wind Stabilizer System 10, using a strong hook and loop fastening system as a direct attachment point for the flysheet and tent pole. Connecting to at two points along the pole it gives stability at both high and low points of the flysheet, the guy ropes are also attached to the wind stabilizer System, the guys are fixed to a lot more fabric that covers more surface area across tension points. Not only does this make the tent perform a lot better in high winds, but it also causes less stress on the guys and therefore they’re far less likely to fail, when you need them the most. Flysheet and poles work in unison together against the elements, which keeps the whole tent stable whatever the weather.

Easy Pegging System

Three colour-coded types of pegs ensure easy and stable pitching. The peg is different depending on the job required for it: Grey anchor steel pegs for all four corners, luminous plastic pegs for the guylines and black pegs at the side pegging points.

Specs

Pack size:
Flysheet: 75 x 40 x 40 cm,
Poles: 75 x 26 x 15 cm
Weight:
Flysheet: 24.3 kg,
Poles: 17.9 kg