Entries Tagged as 'Tents and shelter'

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Lunar Solo Enhanced Tent

Through an exchange in a Yahoo lightweight backpacking group I discovered the Lunar Solo Enhanced tent from Six Moons Design.
When I checked out Six Moon’s website, I learned that Backpacking Light gave it its 2005 Lightitude Award for best solo shelter. Okay, so I’m a couple of years behind on this. But […]

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Choosing a Backpacking shelter: tent, bivy, or tarp?

The ultralight philosophy certainly comes into play in choosing a shelter. Will it be a tent (3 pounds), bivy sack (2 pounds) or tarp (1 pound)? Perhaps a hammock (1 pound, 4 ounces) or a hybrid tarp/tent (1 pound, 12) from GoLite.
The Tarp
An ultralight backpacker will likely choose one of a growing number of […]