Check out this tent: Titanium Goats Vertex. It weighs less then 4 lbs and then for another pound they sell a small titanium wood stove that goes inside of it. How cool would it be to spend the winter in this tent? Gives me goose bumps just thinking about it.
Winter digs for the nomad.
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Wow – cool little stove – price isn’t too much either!
I guess you’re looking more for a teepee type tent, I thought you might be interested in these though: http://www.tarptent.com/products.html
Cheers,
Mungo
Looking at pictures of tents online or in a catalog no matter how many stats, facts and measurements they give you is like buying a car without driving it first. The lightest tent in the world won’t do you any good if you’re not comfortable in it.
I bought my truck without driving it. The guy said don’t you want to test drive it? I said “It’s the cheapest new truck I can buy and it gets good gas mileage. That’s good enough”.
I’m not really a “how smooth and quiet is the ride” type of person. Dependable, cheap, and good gas mileage, that’s what I was looking for.
I have never owned a tent, light or heavy, that didn’t suck when it’s pouring down rain.
When someone tells me they love to hear the rain pounding on their tent, I wonder if they have really spent many nights hunkered down in a rain storm.
Tenting when the weather is bad has always required some attentiveness on my part. I have to sop up the puddles of condensation, I have to reach up and pound the snow off, I have to brave the rain and tighten everything up.
If I want comfort, I sleep under the stars. If I want protection from the elements, I sleep in my tent.
I don’t think they let you test drive tents.
Actually, there are a few places I go like REI and A16 that display tents that are set up so I can actually see and feel how much room there is and how well they are constructed.
I’ve spent many a California, Alaska and Missouri night in a rain storm high and dry in a well placed and pitched tent and enjoyed it.
Yeah, but REI doesn’t have anything cool, like a tent with a wood stove.
What tent do you carry?
What tent do I carry?
I have Marmot Hypno which I really like a lot.
It’s a two person tent with all the bells and whistles meaning it’s freestanding and each side has it’s own entry and vestibule. I’m 6’5″ and can lay down in it without my head or feet touching the wall at either end. A lot of tents boast on paper how much square footage is inside but if the walls rise at sharp, low angles it reduces the amount of usable space my head and feet have. Also, it accommodates two 25″ wide T-rests side-by-side which is a must. Properly pitched it really holds up in wind and weather. There are nifty little built in light reflective tabs on the outside that help me find it in the dark too. Last, but not least it’s versatile. It can be used with just the rain fly and footprint when I go ultra-light.
Say, what’s with the security code always giving me grief?
According to a reviewer your tent weighs almost 8lbs.
http://www.trailspace.com/gear/marmot/hypno/review/5830/
What’s your base weight?
Mr. Finehack has your request for a better security code system in his queue. If you don’t have a security code system, the comment section will be full of adds for porno and Viagra.
Almost 8 lbs? I dunno what’s with that review of the Hypo. I’ve seen others state that it weighs 6 lbs or so but I get the tent, poles, stakes, floor and rain fly down to around 5 lbs. and if I split it with my partner then the weight is cut in half.