Lightweight 1-person tent?

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#41

Have you tried…
Sand bags for beach camping? They work great!



You fill them up with beach sand & they weigh hefty enough to support your tent. Therefor no need to carry extra “stake weight”.



Paddle easy,



Coffee

#42

You are the pope then…
Why couldn’t that be a four season tent? Thought you were in the military???



http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1519046960049735028yQNafW



Paddle easy,



Coffee

#43

another vote for the clip flashlight
I have an older clip flashlight (probably 10 years old now) but the design doesn’t appear to have changed. I love that little tent. My wife and I have used it for backpacking. It’s tight for a 2-person, but it has a decent vestibule for gear storage. As a 1-person tent it is very roomy for me with gear (I’m 6’0).



I think it weighs a little over 3 pounds, and I can shove it way back alongside my skeg box in my very low volume pintail.



It’s a great high-wind tent because of it’s low profile too.

#44

1 more link …

– Last Updated: Jan-28-09 6:12 PM EST –


http://www.litebackpacker.com/ultralite-tents/index.html

http://www.sixmoondesigns.com/default.asp


ok there's 2 links ....last minute addition !

#45

Sand in the eyes ?
Camping without a tent, or just useing a floorless tent or tarp isn’t a good idea If you are going to be camping on a sand beach. The wind blows the fine sand around all night, and into your eyes. Been there, done that, didn’t like it. Also, everything you have gets sand in it, and if you drop something, it gets buried. So my choice would include a floor, and tent body to keep the sand out. Even in a tent, I’ve had fine river silt/sand blow in through the nylon mesh doors occasionally, ehen it was really windy. Sleeping on top of a groundcloth helps a some, but unless you have some way to block the wind, you can’t keep that fine sand from blowing around.

#46

I have a Kelty Clarke solo tent
It weights just a hair under 4 pounds on my electronic scale, complete with poles, stakes and stuff sack. It’s more than roomy enough for a six-footer, though not exactly spacious and the headroom isn’t especially generous. However, it’s light and reasonably compact, which seems to be what most people want in a solo tent. It also sets up easily and pretty quickly. Besides, I got it for $50 at an REI “garage sale”. Speaking of which, REI sells some nice solo tents under their own label.

#47

Thanks everyone, great help
There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread and I’ve learned a good bit while checking out all the links. Sometimes I find out what I want is what I already have…



I’m already carrying a Tundra Tarp, Eno Double Nest and Eno Bug net, so if I have to go to ground all I need to add is a tent footprint and rig a tarp shelter. I’m going to experiment in the back yard with hanging the hammock from two guyed out kayak paddles. I’m a bit skeptical yet, so we’ll see.



My whole kit weighs less than 5 pounds and the best part, it’s already paid for:)



Here’s the stuff I already have, and the last link is a very useful treatise on rigging tarp shelters.



http://cookecustomsewing.com/tundratarp.htm



http://www.eaglesnestoutfittersinc.com/double-nest-hammock.html



http://www.eaglesnestoutfittersinc.com/guardian-bug-net.html



http://www.rei.com/product/762792



http://www.equipped.org/tarp-shelters.htm



thanks everone, I appreaciate your help

#48

Full double-wall tents
Blowing sand is why I stopped using tents whose body is mesh, or largely mesh. Even with the fly on and zipped closed, too much sand gets inside.



Solid tent walls keep sand out better, and they are much warmer. But they do weigh more than the current mostly-mesh “three-season” tents. Puhleaze. Those are SUMMER tents.

#49

I learned the hard way about sand & mesh

– Last Updated: Jan-31-09 1:10 AM EST –

My lightweight solo tent has a mesh inner wall. One time while setting it up on a Wisconsin River sandbar, as it was still laid-out on the ground, an errant footstep launched a good-sized handful of sand onto the tent. Normally that's no big deal, but all of that sand dropped right through the mesh to the inside! So I learned that that's one more thing to be careful of. Keeping sand out of your gear when sandbar camping becomes quite a skill for those of us who don't like having grit in EVERYthing by trip's end, so I can appreciate how blowing sand would be even harder to deal with.

#50

whatever you get
make sure it’s free-standing, a nice feature to have on a beach. I like my tent stakes to hold the tent down, not hold it up (when you’re at their mercy).



Double-walled is generally nicer than single walled, although I’ve got a Sierra Designs Sirius 2 and have been happy with it.



My five-year-old daughter correctly identified the MRS Fling as ugly the first time she saw the ad, but it does do the job and REI has them on sale for a pretty good price:



http://www.rei.com/outlet/product/764693



Happy camping!