Lightweight tent recommendations?

Lol. Bears.

Aye. Same here. Though there hasn’t been a bear attack in such a long time in the Sierra that bear spray is banned in most of the range. Good food storage practices do most of the job to deter black bears here.

Okay last time I post about this tarp, but this is the best solo shelter setup I think I've ever used. 571 grams. I've never felt as smug as I did this morning seeing lots of wet, soggy, sagging nylon tents while my poly stuff was bone dry :-)

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After ages of searching for a better 1 person tent, I settled for this Nauturehike tent. I've only used it once by so far I am really impressed.

Comes with mat
good quality
good height
good design

The only thing I would change is adding small elastic bits to pull out the front and back.

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similar set up available here, but tyou;d have to hunt for a poly rain fly.

https://www.pariaoutdoorproducts.com/collections/camping-tents-backpacking-tent

i use the arches which is Sil/pu nylon

Yeah, I really like Paria. Super affordable stuff, really fast shipping, decent quality. I have their needle stakes because I like a hook over nothces for guylines and their dyneema line is super cheap considering how much it weighs.

Anyone have experience with trekkertent stealth 1? I do like the look of the side entry style of the yama above, but trekkertent cheaper and UK available...

@JB how tall are you and what size cirriform are you using there?

Yeah, Yama would end up being very expensive in the UK. Not sure its worth it. I'm 175cm tall and this is a Regular length Cirriform and a Regular Bigger size Y Zip Bug Bivy.

I've used it more now and I still really like it, but its kind of annoying Re how many stakes it requires to pitch, but that's a double edged sword... I used it in Arizona a couple of weeks ago in the strongest wind I have ever lived through - it was honestly insane - and while the pole behind my head was moving around a bit, the tarp stayed up all night. Was totally bomber. Very very windproof.

That looks neat. It may end up being slightly more expensive, but the TarpTent Preamble is also worth a look. More spacious, comes with stakes, a more straightforward pitch while still having no-see-um mesh at the door and perimeter. Not seam sealed tho......

My Laser Competition 1 getting a proper workout in the Gironde. Just had my first simultaneous thunder clap and lightning. God it made me jump.

Is there much interest in a Tarptent Bowfin 1? Used a few nights, seam sealed, but surplus now.

could be interested! let me research it

I could also be interested, ill put myself in line after @MCamb

Photo attached just for size. Weighs in at just over 1kg when I weighed it in the sack with pole and six Sierra Nevada lightweight pegs.

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Anybody have experience with an A-frame bivvy arrangement? (references attached) I have a rubbish time sleeping in tents/outdoors anyway so i'd like to romanticise the whole thing by building a beautiful structure and waking up basically outside which is the actually good bit of bivvying. I'll only ever plan to be out in summer situations (which kind of makes the tarp void but go with me here).

My one hesitation is that once you add up all the costs & weight of tarp, poles, stakes, bivvy and maybe groundsheet is that you might as well just get a Lanshan 1 Pro. Overthinking it? or are tents just so good now that there isn't much benefit to tarping anymore?

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I don't do a-frame, but I do use a small tarp and bivvy. I tend to pitch using an Asymmetric Holden shape. This seems to take up very little ground space, so I can set it up in places where I couldn't fit a tent.

Weight-wise, you'll need a pole and stakes for a tent anyway, so they cancel out. Depending how wet/muddy it is, I may use a polycro groundsheet (weight: fuck all). Then, Borah Gear bivvy (~180g) and DD Hammocks Superlight Tarp S (290g), so that's 470g in total and it packs up very, very small. The Lanshan I have is 820g (excluding pole and stakes), and probably takes up ~twice the volume.

Have used cat cut and would always recommend cat cut over A frame. Much, much easier to get a taut pitch. You're wrong on the 'basically may as well use a Lanshan' from a weight perspective. @Bearlegged has nailed it. And if there's no bug pressure, you don't need a bug bivy either, so your entire shelter setup can feasibly be 280g + the weight of stakes which is, what, another 100-120g? So much lighter, SO much smaller.

ah, excellent news. Do you use collapsible poles? or a purist with sticks/trees/etc? Curious about the removable wheel situation but The faff of taking your bike apart really doesn't seem worth it for the cost of poles?

@JB Reading some chat about cat cut tarps are a little less adaptable to different situations/layouts? But my thinking is that if you're using a one person sized tarp you're probably best using it in the same setup all the time anyway?

A single collapsible pole from Bearbones, plus tie-outs to nearby trees/walls/bike etc.

yes, admittedly, you can’t use a Cat in all of the same outlandish configurations as you can a flat tarp. But I guarantee that 99% of the time, if not more, you’d just pitch it in the shape of an A. If you envisage tying it to a tree often and just using it as a canopy and having 5 people sat underneath it, then sure, a flat is probably better. But as a shelter to sleep under, cat all the way.

TIL: https://sectionhiker.com/flat-tarps-vs-catenary-cut-tarps/

Pic of my setup from last night.

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Interesting read

https://www.backpacker.com/gear/chinese-ultralight-backpacking-gear/

This looks good value?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32909077223.html?pdp_npi=3%40dis%21GBP%21￡214.49%21￡150.15%21%21%21%21%21%40211b88ee16849368849062888e1b8f%2112000028599447824%21sh01%21GB%210&spm=a2g0o.store_pc_home.productList_199846335.pic_4

Folks seem to like them from what I read online... no direct experience though.