- Features
- DAC NSL Dual Diameter Green Poles
- Marmot Knees System
- Bare Bones Setup - Allows the Fly to be Used by Itself with Footprint to Make a Lightweight, Sturdy Shelter
- No Drip Sidewall Design
- Optional Gear Loft Available - Like Adding an Attic to Your Tent
- Catenary Cut Floor - Fully Waterproof Floor with Taped Seams Lifted Off the Ground
- Optional Footprint - Extra Protection Under Your Tent or for Bare Bones Setup
- Stake Tape™ - Stake Tape
- Vertical Side Walls
- Specs
- Colors:
- Terra Cotta/Pale Pumpkin (117)
- Maximum Weight:5 lbs 1 oz / 2.3 kg
- Minimum Weight:4 lbs 6 oz / 2 kg
- Dimensions:40x50x88in / 102x127x224cm
- Packed Size:6 x 19 in / 15 x 48 cm
- Vestibule Area:9 sq ft / 0.8 sq m
- Tent Poles:3 / DAC NSL 9mm
- Floor Area:30.5 sq ft / 2.8 sq m
- Tent floor Material:40d 100% Nylon Ripstop 3000mm W/R, F/R
- Tent canopy Material:20d No-See-Um-Net F/R
- Tent fly Material:40d 100% Nylon Ripstop Silicon/PU 1800mm W/R, F/R
- Colors:
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DAC
DAC Featherlite tent poles are up to 15% lighter than aluminum, yet comparable in strength. Through innovative design, DAC created a light weight and compact folding tent pole.
Outside Buyer’s Guide 2008 Aura
Home Sweet Dome
Until very recently, wise tent buyers ordered a size up. But thanks to several years of innovations, the best two-person, freestanding tents on the market will honestly and comfortably shelter two full-grown humans and their gear. Even more impressive, all the tents here manage to tip the scales right around five pounds, despite having two doors and two vestibules. Because, after all, nothing preserves domestic harmony – be it in town or on an expedition – like separate closets.
1. The Aura is downright spacious (35 square feet), with two doors and two big vestibules. It’s plenty sturdy, easily withstanding 50-mph winds without guylines. And light: The Aura flirts with the four-pound barrier, the two-person freestanding tent’s equivalent of the four-minute mile.
2. Talk about usable space: Four people can share a meal inside without hunching over. Angled knee joints do the trick down low, while the Aura’s unique configuration – two offset poles terminating above the doorways instead of joining in an X – hoists the walls.
3. Setting up the unorthodoxly designed Aura the first time is far from intuitive. But don’t worry. Once you figure it out, you can put it up in a flash. Bonus: The Aura’s DAC NSL aluminum poles aren’t finished with environmentally nasty phosphoric and nitric acid.
4. The 100 percent mesh canopy affords clear stargazing in dry but buggy weather and eliminates condensation when the fly goes on. And when skies went gray, testers stayed dry (thanks to steep, drip-free walls) – and positive (thanks to a cheery orange hue).
5. Testers praised Marmot’s trademark Stake Tape – strips of webbing with a line of pre-cut slots. They eliminate ounces and tangles when staking out the corners and vestibules. Easy, now: We carelessly tore a few slots trying to achieve a perfectly taut pitch.
- by Frederick Reimers
Maxim October 2008 Aura
The Perfect Pitch
At 30.5 square feet, the Marmot Aura Tent sleeps two and sits four comfortably yet weighs barely four pounds. The secret? Smartly angled, offset DAC aluminum poles – 15 percent lighter than traditional ones – that raise the roof, Arsenio style, to increase head space. And a mesh canopy lets you soak up the sun while your significant other hunts and gathers.
Canoeroots Vol 7; Issue 3 Fall 2008 Aura
On the Path to Enlightenment
The knee-jointed poles of the Aura 2P allow for more vertical walls, improving water shedding and increasing usable space in the corners. The split pole design, in which one would-be cross-pole is split into two parallel, offset short poles, creates more space and better door support at minimum weight cost. Two doors and spacious vestibules separate it from the more radically weight-obsessed hiker tents, but it still comes in at just 1.8 kilograms and barely fills its own stuff sack. The 2.8 square-metre floor space fits two adults and not much else, though a full metre of headroom and mesh walls gives it a spacious feel. –I.M.
Outside Magazine's 2008 "Gear of the Year" Award for Aura 2p Tent
Our lightweight Aura 2 person tent wins Outside Magazine's 2008 Gear of the Year Award.
Along with our DriClime Catalyst Jacket that also won in the 2008 Summer Buyer's Guide issue, this is the first time any company has won two awards in two separate categories in the same season, according to Outside Magazine.
Over the past year, the guide tested and reviewed 392 new, outdoor-related products. “The Buyer’s Guide has become a defining catalog of world-class clothing and equipment in recent years” explains Tom Fritz, Marmot’s Vice President of Marketing. “It is a big deal for Marmot to take two awards in this summer issue” adds Fritz.
Marmot’s Aura 2-Person Tent, featured in Outside’s 2008 Summer Buyer’s Guide in an impressive two-page spread, won “Gear of The Year” for its remarkable spaciousness, innovative pole design and added lightweight value (with fly it weighs in at 4 lbs, 6 oz). “We were looking to give the consumer a high-value, all-mountain backpacking tent with greater ‘habitability’ than ever before,” explains Jeff Blakely, Director and Category Manager of Equipment. “I think we nailed it with the Aura,” he adds.
Curly's Clips - Aura 2P Tent
Marmot's own Curly Cervone takes you through the Marmot Aura 2P Tent.
Aura 2 Person Tent Set Up Video
Marmot Athlete Beth Rodden shows you how to set up the Aura 2 Person Tent
Aura 2P Tent Set-Up Instructions
How to set up your Marmot® Aura 2P
Select a flat, level and protected site free from sharp rocks, twigs or other objects that could puncture the floor of your tent. Avoid pitching your tent in a low spot where water may collect if it rains.
Setting up the Tent Body
- Spread the tent out floor side down and loosely stake out the four corners of the main tent body.
- Carefully unfold all poles and begin assembling. Make sure that all the sections are fully joined together. Your pole system is fully connected with the shock cord system.
- The Aura 2P pole structure consists of three poles, one long pole and two shorter poles of equal length, all of which are permanently connected together by plastic knee joints.
- Identify the corners of the tent body with red webbing. Lay the long tent pole diagonally across the tent body with its tips at the corners with the red webbing. Insert the tips of the long pole into the grommets at these corners.
- The long pole should be on top of the two shorter poles, and the flat side of the plastic knee joint should be facing up. The long pole will intersect the two shorter poles creating two X shapes.
- Locate the grommets above the tent doors. Insert the tip of one of the short poles into a grommet at the tent corner. Insert the other end of the same pole into the grommet above the tent door. This pole should cross under the longer pole.
- Repeat step 6 with the other short pole.
- Once all poles are secured in their respective grommets, attach all tent clips to the tent poles.
Attaching the Flysheet
- Unfold the flysheet and identify the inside of the fly. The inside is coated and the seam tape is visible.
- Identify the red tabs on two corners of the fly and two corners of the tent body. Align the red tabs on the fly with the red tabs on the tent body, and drape the fly over the tent body.
- The seams of the fly should closely align with the tent poles.
- Identify the reflective guy-line tabs along the seams of the fly. There is Velcro under the tabs that will more securely attach the fly to the tent pole structure.
- Once the four buckles are attached, tighten the webbing at the corners until the fly is taut.
- Be sure the fly door is zipped closed before you stake out the vestibule. Use the large loop to stake out the vestibule. Use the adjustable webbing to tighten or release the tension.
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Size Chart
| 4'11"-5'2" | 5'2"-5'6" | 5'6"-5'10" | 5'10"-6'2" | 6'2"-6'6" | |
| 90-110 lbs | XS | S | |||
| 110-135 lbs | XS | S | M | ||
| 135-160 lbs | S-M | M | M-L | ||
| 160-195 lbs | M-L | L | L-XL | ||
| 195-230 lbs | L | L-XL | XL-XXL | ||
| 230-265 lbs | XL-XXL | XXL-XXXL |
Sizing by Body Measurements
| XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL | XXXL | |
| Parkas/Jackets/Sweaters/Tops (Unisex) | |||||||
| Chest | 33-35 | 36-38 | 39-41 | 42-45 | 46-49 | 50-53 | 54-57 |
| Neck | 13.5-14 | 14.5-15 | 15.5-16 | 16.5-17 | 17.5-18 | 18.5-19 | 19.5-20 |
| Sleeve | 30-31 | 32-33 | 34-35 | 35-36 | 36-37 | 37-38 | 37-38 |
| Pants/Bibs (Unisex) | |||||||
| Waist | 26-28 | 28-30 | 31-33 | 34-36 | 37-39 | 40-42 | 44 |
| Hip | 36-38 | 38-40 | 40-42 | 43-45 | 46-48 | 50-52 | 56 |
| Inseam (reg) | 28 | 29.5 | 31 | 32.5 | 33 | 33.5 | 34.5 |
| Inseam (short) | 26 | 27.5 | 29 | 30.5 | 31 | 31.5 | 32.5 |
| Inseam (long) | 30 | 31.5 | 33 | 34.5 | 35 | 35.5 | 36.5 |
| Gloves (Unisex) | |||||||
| Girth | 6.5-7 | 7-7.5 | 8-8.5 | 9-9.5 | 10-10.5 | ||
| Parkas/Jackets/Sweaters/Tops (Women's) | |||||||
| Size | 4-6 | 6-8 | 8-10 | 12-14 | 14-16 | ||
| Bust | 30-32 | 32-34 | 35-37 | 38-40 | 41-43 | ||
| Sleeve | 29-30 | 30-31 | 32-33 | 34-35 | 36-37 | ||
| Pants/Bibs (Women's) | |||||||
| Size | 4-6 | 6-8 | 8-10 | 12-14 | 14-16 | ||
| Waist | 22-24 | 24-26 | 27-29 | 30-32 | 33-35 | ||
| Hip | 33-35 | 35-37 | 38-40 | 41-43 | 44-46 | ||
| Inseam (reg) | 27.5 | 28.5 | 30 | 31.5 | 32 | ||
| Inseam (short) | 25.5 | 26.5 | 28 | 29.5 | 30 | ||
| Inseam (long) | 29.5 | 30.5 | 32 | 33.5 | 34 | ||
| Gloves (Women's) | |||||||
| Girth | 6-6.5 | 6.5-7 | 7.5-8 | 8.5-9 | |||
Kid's Sizing (boys & girls)
| XS | S | M | L | XL | |
| Age | 4-5 | 6-7 | 8-9 | 10-12 | 13-15 |
| Chest | 24-26 | 26-28 | 28-30 | 30-32 | 32-34 |
| Waist | 19-21 | 21-23 | 23-25 | 25-27 | 27-29 |
| Hip | 24-26 | 26-28 | 28-30 | 30-32 | 32-34 |
| Inseam | 17-18 | 19-20 | 21-22 | 23-25 | 26-28 |
| Sleeve | 22-24 | 24-25 | 25-26 | 26-28 | 28-30 |
| Height (in.) | 36-42 | 42-48 | 48-54 | 54-60 | 60-65 |
| Weight (lbs.) | 35-42 | 42-50 | 50-60 | 70-90 | 90-115 |
Garment Sizing Information
The charts above will help you select the proper size.
If you have questions, please call us.
Care Instructions
Marmot does not recommend dry cleaning for any of our products. Gore-Tex® fabric products, MemBrain® fabric products, down insulated products, and fleece are all machine washable. You should use a commercial front loading machine and follow the care instructions.
Reviews and comments
on 6/5/10.
Bought tent in 2009 and used for a early June backpacking trip in Colorado at 9,000 Ft elevation. It rained, snowed and the tent was great. I was pretty amazed that the floor did not leak as I slept on a large puddle of water for two days straight.
on 6/16/10.
How big are the vestibules on this tent? It says here 9 sq ft... other tents have 18 sq ft. Is this tent's vestibule half the size of others? Or is the size stated here for one vestibule only?
on 7/3/10.
I believe it is 9 sq. ft. on each side of the tent. I just got back from a week of using this tent with my girlfriend and I loved it. We both had enough vestibule space for our packs, boots and enough space to comfortably climb in and out.
on 6/29/10.
Excellent tent...the guy at the store said it was easy to set up so I asked him to show me...after three unsuccessful tries, I recalled the old adage, "When all else fails, read the instructions." Was a cinch to set up after that. Took tent to Great Sand Dunes in late April and had a foot of heavy, wet snow fall overnight. Tent nearly collapsed under the weight, but I was able to brush the snow off the tent roof (from the inside) enough to keep the tent from collapsing. Inside there was lots of condensation on the fly, but the I stayed dry. During the day, opening up the two vestibule flaps allowed the condensation to dry quickly. Tons of room for one person...love that for two people there is a separate vestibule and door for each. Tent is light, easy to set up (once you know which way the poles go). The pockets on sides are nice. Only thing I found somewhat of an issue is that the tent flaps for the vestibulesare so long that it is difficult to keep it taut. Not sure if it would be an issue in a heavy downpour, but it was an issue with snowfall...the flap sagged and diminished the size of the vestibule.
on 8/2/10.
The tent looks exactly as it is demostrated in the video.
Pros:
-light
-very well ventilated
-stable
-roomy
Cons:
-the carring bag is too big and I could't fold it/wrap it nicely. So if you want to cary it on your back pack it wont look at all nite - it looks like a mess
Advice:
- when setting it for the first time be sure it is daylight and you have at least 20-30 minutes of light
Also, try to be sober ... it helps
Observation:
- the top layer is ussual very streched and if you have any flying insects (Ex. flys, flying bugs) in between the 2 layers, the top layer acts like a small drum every time the insects are tring to get out and smah into the wall....
on 8/15/10.
Purchased my Aura 2P tent to use on a trip to Glacier in September. Thought I'd practice setting it up in my yard so when I get to MT I'm not all thumbs. But in the stake bag I've got yellow rope that I"m assuming is to use for putting more tension on the fly. But do I dare precut this and try to use the black plastic slide clips? Or wait to see if I need it? The directions were actually pretty good but could have expanded on the use of the yellow rope, the plastic slide clips(like how to insert the rope so they hold) plus the stretchy bungee type wiht the grommet-like what are those for??
Thanks for any help!
on 12/9/10.
Those are the guy lines as far as i know. You have to cut them and tie them onto the rain fly. It adds more stability in the wind if you have them all staked down.
on 8/15/10.
Purchased my Aura 2P tent to use on a trip to Glacier in September. Thought I'd practice setting it up in my yard so when I get to MT I'm not all thumbs. But in the stake bag I've got yellow rope that I"m assuming is to use for putting more tension on the fly. But do I dare precut this and try to use the black plastic slide clips? Or wait to see if I need it? The directions were actually pretty good but could have expanded on the use of the yellow rope, the plastic slide clips(like how to insert the rope so they hold) plus the stretchy bungee type wiht the grommet-like what are those for??
Thanks for any help!
on 8/22/10.
What is the best way to fold up the tent poles on the Aura 2P? If I break them at all the junctions I have 2 that are longer than the rest. Marmot instructions on this would be great! The instructions stitched to the tent bag are fantastic! Thanks.
on 9/25/10.
I was trucking across western Canada and I would use this tent when ever I needed to not be in my sleeper cab. Here are my observations with the tent.
1. It is huge. I am five foot ten, and I can lay completely stretched out like a starfish and not touch the sides. The vestibules are also large enough for any bag and boots you may throw in them.
2. Any one who knocks the Marmot orange has obviously not woken up with the sun filtering through their rain fly. I never wanted to leave in the morning.
3. The color coded fly/pole setup is a blessing in the day, but if ever you have to pitch the tent when there is no light, it's kind of useless. This is not a tent you can set up blindfolded. It's also not an easy set up " straight out of the box". You will want to practice a lot with this tent before you take it into the field.
4. Buy the footprint. You are making a big investment as far as tents go, so do what you can to protect it.
5. The rainfly works like a dream. I caught a heavy downpour in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and I was dry as a... Well I was really dry.
6. When I had the rainfly on there was condensation on it in the morning. It didn't drip on me. And when I opened the top zippers on the vestibule doors, I had enough ventilation to minimize this, but it still happened to some extent.
7. This isn't about the tent so much as a quirk I have with the Marmot website. Why doesn't it sell patch kits on the website? I know that you give one with the tent. And I am not at all knocking the quality of this wonderful tent, but I feel they should provide this particular product on their website. (I almost lost mine, that's why I am ranting about this).
8. The pockets are huge. I probably should have put this as number two on the list but what can I say I am typing this as I think about it.
9. Setting this tent up using only the footprint/fly has eluded me. There are no instructions for this configuration, and I am not willing to put in the time to figuring it out. Any help would be wonderful Marmot.
on 11/21/10.
Tried out our new Aura 2p on the weekend and have the same problem as Vermonter on 8.15.10. Love the tent and roominess but:
"But in the stake bag I've got yellow rope that I"m assuming is to use for putting more tension on the fly. But do I dare precut this and try to use the black plastic slide clips? Or wait to see if I need it? The directions on tent set up were actually pretty good but could have expanded on the use of the yellow rope, the plastic slide clips(like how to insert the rope so they hold) plus the stretchy bungee type wiht the grommet-like what are those for??"
Can anyone answer this question? Also can't figure out how to set it up barebones. I don't have the footprint, is it needed for barebones setup and if so, does it have the grommets? The video of the setup provided by Marmot is useless. They need to show someone actually setting it up.
I live in Australia, bought my tent online, so can't contact Marmot unless by phone directly and there is no email address or help line or live chat. So I feel pretty frustrated.
Help Please!!!!
on 1/3/11.
Hey there I'm undecided on the tent choice between the Aura 2 and the Earlylight 2 anyone have hints suggestions on pro n cons between the two? I would be using it backpacking just about anywhere and anytime with my girlfriend and both of us carry plenty of gear along...Thanks.
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