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Big Agnes started in Steamboat Springs, Colorado in 2001, and the first product was a sleeping bag with a sleeve underneath that held your mat in place, so you stopped rolling off it in the night. Solving the annoying part rather than the impressive part is still most of what the brand does: freestanding ultralight tents that pitch on rock without needing every corner staked, sleeping mats with a published R-value you can compare, and bags that clip to the mat instead of sliding off it. Wild Earth stocks the tents from one to four people, the sleeping mats and pads, the bags, and the camp furniture, with free shipping Australia-wide and 80 days to return anything, sale items included.
Here's a run through the range to help you work out which one you're actually after!
The number in the name is how many sleeping mats fit side by side with nothing left over. Every tent brand counts it that way, so a two-person tent is two people and their boots in the vestibule - not two people, a dog and two packs. If you want room to sit up and spread out, go one size up. It is the single most common thing people get wrong, and it costs more to fix later than it does to get right now.
A one-person Big Agnes is genuinely one person and a pack, and the weight saving over a two-person is smaller than you'd think - often only 200 to 300 grams. Worth it if you count grams or if you're walking somewhere with narrow pitching. Not worth it if you're ever going to share it. Check out the range of Big Agnes 1 Person Tents.
Two-person is where the range is deepest and it's the size that carries the demand by a distance. It also works well as a roomy solo tent, which is what a lot of people use it for - one person, a pack inside, and a vestibule to cook under. Check out the range of Big Agnes 2 Person Tents.
Three-person is the honest answer for two adults who want to sit up, or two adults and a kid, or two adults and a dog. Actual three-up is tight in an ultralight three-person and fine in a Blacktail. Check out the range of Big Agnes 3 Person Tents.
The Blacktail 4 is the lightest way to sleep four, and the Bunk House and Big House are the car-camping shapes with standing room and a proper door.
Several Big Agnes tents come in a Long or XL version - same design, extra length, extra head height, a bit more weight. If you're over about 185 cm you'll notice the difference immediately, and it's the reason a lot of people who bought a standard UL2 came back and bought the Long. Check the floor dimensions on the product page rather than the name.
In short: one person if you count grams, two if you don't, three if you want to sit up, and Long or XL if you're tall.
Once you've settled on capacity, the choice is between weight, floor space and price - and you only get two of the three.
The Copper Spur is the tent Big Agnes is known for and the one most people should buy. Freestanding, dual doors and dual vestibules, steep walls so the floor area is usable rather than notional, and awning-style doors you can prop open with trekking poles. It is not the lightest tent in the range, and it is not the cheapest but it's the one that makes the fewest compromises.
Same fabric and the same build quality, single-pole architecture, roughly 300 to 400 grams lighter than the equivalent Copper Spur. What you give up is the freestanding pitch and some interior volume - the Tiger Wall needs its corners staked to stand up properly, so it's the wrong tent for a rock platform or a hut floor. On soft ground it's the better carry.
One door at the head end, one vestibule, the least material of anything in the range. Getting in and out means going over your gear rather than around it, and two people in a Fly Creek UL2 will be well acquainted by morning. Solo hikers who've done a few trips tend to end up here as ultralight begins to take priority.
Heavier polyester rather than the ultralight nylon, aluminium poles rather than DAC Featherlite, and a lot less money. Still light enough to carry on an overnighter and much tougher underfoot for car camping and school-holiday use. The Hotel versions add an oversized vestibule on one side, which is where the packs, the dog and the wet boots go - that vestibule is the reason to pay the difference, not the sleeping area.
Copper Spur and Blacktail Hotel both come in Bikepack versions with shorter poles that fit across handlebars, a compression sack with a daisy-chain webbing system, and an awning vestibule. If you're not riding, don't pay for it - the standard version is lighter and cheaper.
In short: Copper Spur unless you have a reason, Tiger Wall if the reason is weight, Fly Creek if the reason is weight and you know what you're giving up, Blacktail if the reason is money or space.
Big Agnes mats are what the brand quietly does best, and R-value is the number that decides it. R-value measures resistance to heat leaving you through the ground, it's independently tested to a common standard, and it's comparable across brands - unlike a temperature rating on a sleeping bag. Ground steals more warmth than air does, so an underrated mat will ruin a night that a good bag would have saved.
R-value 4.8, two layers of heat-reflective film, and 11cm thick with larger outer chambers so you're cradled rather than perched. It's comfortable enough for side sleepers and warm enough for anything short of snow. Comes in regular, wide regular, long, wide long and a double wide, so the size question is about shoulder width as much as height. Most people should buy this one.
Thicker and more supportive, with a dual valve for fast inflation and micro-adjustment, and a double-wide version that works as a genuine two-person bed. For car camping and base camps where the weight doesn't matter, this is the more comfortable mat.
The strip-it-back option for people counting grams, at the cost of thickness and warmth. Fine in summer, not enough underneath you in a cold snap.
One thing worth knowing: on frozen ground or snow, put a closed-cell foam mat under whichever of these you own. Big Agnes says so on their own product pages and it is good advice.
See the full range of the Big Agnes Mats and Mattresses.
The thing that separates a Big Agnes bag from everyone else's is that it attaches to the mat. There's a sleeve or a set of loops on the underside, the mat sits in it, and you can roll over inside the bag without the bag rolling off the mat with you. If you're a restless sleeper who wakes up half off the mat at 3am, this is the fix, and no amount of down solves it otherwise.
The Torchlight EXP is the one to know about: zippered side panels let you add up to 25cm of girth wherever you want it - shoulders, hips, feet, or the lot - which makes one bag work for a broad-shouldered sleeper and a side sleeper who kicks. It's 650-fill down with a water-repellent treatment, and the comfort rating sits around -1 °C, which covers most Australian three-season use.
Ratings are worth reading carefully. A “comfort” rating is roughly the temperature at which a cold sleeper stays comfortable; a “limit” rating is where a warm sleeper is merely surviving. Buy on the comfort number, not the one on the front of the box, and remember that the mat under you is doing at least as much work as the bag.
The Skyline Ultralight Chair is the one people carry - under 800g packed, assembles in about thirty seconds, and holds 125kg. It is a lot of weight to carry for somewhere to sit, but every person who has carried one on a multi-day trip says it was worth it. The Big Six is the heavier, larger camp chair for when the car is nearby and comfort matters more than grams.
A footprint is a cut-to-shape groundsheet that sits under the tent floor. It is not waterproofing - it is abrasion protection, and on Australian ground, which is more likely to be grit and stick than grass, it does real work. The other reason to own one is Fast Fly: with the footprint, fly and poles you can pitch just the outer as a shelter and leave the tent body at home, which saves several hundred grams on a warm, dry trip.
Footprints are model-specific and size-specific. A Copper Spur UL2 footprint does not fit a Copper Spur UL2 Long. Buy it against the exact tent - check out the entire Big Agnes Footprints range. Big Agnes Tent Accessories like poles, pegs, guy lines and repair kits can also be bought separately.
Big Agnes: Big Agnes 1 Person Tents, Big Agnes 2 Person Tents, Big Agnes 3 Person Tents, Big Agnes Mats and Mattresses, Big Agnes Footprints and Big Agnes Tent Accessories.
Tents across all brands: 4 and 5 person tents, 6 to 10 person tents, 4 season mountain tents, bikepacking tents and swags, footprints, tent accessories and tent care.
Sleeping across all brands: sleeping bags, down sleeping bags, mats and mattresses, quilts, pillows and liners.
Camp furniture: chairs and stools.
Free shipping Australia-wide, bulky items excluded - larger family tents may fall into that, and the product page will say so. You have 80 days to return anything, sale items included. Full detail is on our shipping and returns pages. We also have two stores, Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast and Brisbane at Skygate, and you can order online for click and collect - see store locations. Stock differs between the two, and each product page shows availability at each store alongside online, so check there before making the trip.
Count sleeping mats, not people. A two-person tent fits two standard-width mats side by side and nothing else inside, so if you want room for packs, a dog or the ability to sit up and play cards in the rain, buy one size larger than the number of people. If you're over about 185cm, look for the Long or XL version of whichever model you've chosen rather than sizing up in capacity - you want extra length, not extra width. Sleeping mats and bags are sized separately again, in regular, long and wide, and those you should buy to your own height and shoulder width. Floor dimensions are listed on every product page in centimetres; compare those rather than the name.
You don't need one, but on rocky or gritty ground it will meaningfully extend the life of the floor, and it's much cheaper to replace than a tent. The second reason is Fast Fly - footprint, fly and poles pitched without the tent body, which is a genuinely lighter shelter for warm dry trips. Footprints are cut for a specific model and a specific size, including the Long and XL versions, so match it to the exact tent you own.
Weight and pitching. The Tiger Wall is lighter - usually a few hundred grams at the same capacity - because it uses a single-pole design with less material. The trade is that it needs its corners staked out to hold its shape, so it isn't truly freestanding, and it has slightly less usable interior volume. The Copper Spur is freestanding, so you can pitch it on rock, sand or a hut platform and move it around once it's up. If you camp on soft ground and count grams, Tiger Wall. Otherwise, Copper Spur.
They're the same line, one generation apart. The older tents are named Copper Spur HV UL; the current ones drop the HV and use a fabric Big Agnes calls HyperBead. So, a review of a “Copper Spur HV UL2” is describing the previous version of what is now sold as the Copper Spur UL2. The distinction matters most for accessories - a footprint or a gear loft made for one generation may not fit the other, so buy those against the tent you own.
Big Agnes warrants its gear against defects in materials and workmanship, and the terms differ by product line - a tent, a mat and a chair are not covered the same way. Separately, and regardless of any manufacturer warranty, Australian Consumer Law guarantees apply to everything we sell. If something's gone wrong with a Big Agnes product you bought from us, contact us and we'll handle it for you.
For three-season use, yes, with two things to know. First, condensation: these are double-wall tents with generous mesh, which is exactly what you want on a humid east-coast night, but you still need to vent the fly rather than sealing it up. Second, UV - the ultralight nylons in the UL range are not built to sit pitched in full Australian sun for weeks, so a semi-permanent base camp is a job for a heavier tent. For alpine winter or sustained snow loading you want a four-season mountain tent instead; the Big Agnes ultralight range is three-season.
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