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Just came across this (at British outdoor website Outdoors Magic ) new lightweight tent from the Scottish company Vango. Back in 1995 while traveling around Europe by bicycle, I had the opportunity to see and test quite a few Vango tents… at the time they were aong the most innovative tent makers I’d ever seen. Lately they seem to have fallen a little from the radar, with a lot of ho-hum designs, but this new edition might put them back on the map. Take a look.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
Till we found the sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine
Cool Tent!
It looks similar to a prototype Gossamer Gear shelter
http://www.gossamergear.com/gossamergear/images/photos/Oregon_2006/tent_proto.jpg
David, thanks for pointing out the GG shelter. I hadn't seen one before.
I don't anything about it. I found the picture in a trip report on their website. They do have some new products coming out this year, may be a new shelter will be one of them.
The GG shelter looks like an AKTO morphed into a shaped tarp, with trekking poles to hold it up. The poles (or one of them) look to be slanted inward. How would that affect stability? Looks to have 8-10 stakes to hold it up?
Vango tent: Is there any way you can get at that weight, 1 kg, without using silnylon? If it is silnylon or similar, isn't it a waypoint 1 disaster in the works? The only mesh is probably (guessing from pic) in the top and ends above the bathtub floor.
Very cool tent…
$190 USD (+ Shipping)
Body: Protex® SPU-SL3000
Groundsheet: HD Nylon 5000
Poles: Powerflex® 7001-T6 alloy + TBS® PRO
Protex® SPU-SL3000 seems to be "Ripstop Polyester" rated to 3000mm HH. Similarly the groundsheet is 5000mm HH nylon, pretty standard stuff.
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