Say goodbye to cramped quarters and soggy mornings. These are the best two-person backpacking tents that are are light, tough ...

Brooks-Range designed the Tension system not so much out of spite for tent poles, but to save weight. The two-person, 30-sq ft (2.7-sq m) Tension 30 has a max weight of 2-lb 11-oz ...

This trekking-pole tent from smaller manufacturer Six Moon Designs regularly lands on industry best-of lists thanks to its combination of space, weight, durability, and reasonable (for the ...

Hyperlite further lightens the real-world load by splitting the 21.2-oz (601-g) tent body and 12.8-oz (363-g) poles into separate Dyneema stuff sacks so that each of the two campers can carry a ...

Double-wall, freestanding tents are more versatile than trekking-pole tents, but typically weigh more. Diana Helmuth Weight. Car camping tents are bulky, with even the lightest models weighing upwards ...

Replacing their rigid predecessors, inflatable poles offer advantages like ease of setup — you just pump them up — and increased strength. Disadvantages are weight and complication. Worth it ...

Trekking-pole tents, on the other hand, must be staked out in order to stand up. For years, experienced backpackers would tend toward trekking-pole tents for the weight savings. Novice backpackers, on ...

That would include a tent such as Mountain Hardwear s Sprite 1 ($150), a so-called tunnel” style tent that has two hoop poles and stakes at the end. By eliminating a third pole, weight is cut to ...