What happens when I'm told that I can't do something? This!

I had fun making this video as a response to negative comments on the Naturehike Mongar 2 Review video from last year (2021).

The commenter claimed that my review of the Mongar 2 was too kind. That the shelter was in fact rubbish for bad weather pitching because of my incorrect claim that the Mongar cannot be pitched outer (fly) first.

I attempted to pacify the commenter and offer instruction on how this could be done. He became even more angry. And so I offered to converse with him via a direct message on my Instagram. I also suggested I might make a video in the future to clarify the way to solve the issue he was having with the Mongar.

This is that video.

Monger 2 video "You Can't Pitch it in the Rain!" Youtube thumbnail

I wanted to help the guy out (and anybody else who may have been facing the same problems). Though I couldn’t forget the fact that his comments were aggressively written, which pissed me off. So when I set up to film the video, I needed to have a little fun with it.

It was a wet, cold, windy and all round miserable Saturday afternoon. I set up my OEX Expedition Tarp in my back garden to shelter my camera from the rain and wind and filmed my introduction. Then got going with pitching the tent... wearing shorts, a thin t-shirt, pool sliders and sunglasses!

Yes, it was cold! But in my comments and in the video I explained that the Mongar 2 is a Summer/warm weather tent - not a winter or wet-weather tent. So I wanted to wear my warm weather gear for the video and that is where the fun came for me. I asked my wife to borrow her swimsuit for the video, but she gave me a strange look and a silent “no”.

Now to clarify, yes I know there are newer revisions of this tent and the inner/fly attach differently and I did not address this in the video. Maybe I was a little pedantic or maybe I took the commenters claims of “I actually own this tent” (note the “THIS”) too literally? However, if he owns THIS tent, the same make, model and revision, I believe I have demonstrated pretty clearly that they can pitch Mongar 2 outer-first with little effort, in rain and wind.

What do you think?

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