I am in the market for a new tent/shelter for two adults, looking to keep my weight down to around 3lbs or less. In the past I mostly hiked with a buddy and we each carried soloist equipment: hammocks and tarps, each with our own food supply and cooking se, each self sufficient with our own likes and needs.
Now, I finally got my lady out into the back country and she loved it. This summer we used a warbonnet blackbird double 1.7oz, turns out it's pretty comfy for two sleepers to share as long as they are into cuddling! On that trip we each brought a hammock and tarp, but now that I am confident that we can share, one hammock and one sleeping bag for two hikers is a pretty good situation weight-wise and for summer trips that is how we are going to roll from now on.. Anyway…
We are going to do a few shoulder season trips this fall and I think we are going to want some sort of ground shelter system. For now I have a golite SL3 tarp with a bearpaw half-insert, (cuben tub floor). My current system is right around 3lbs as it sits, she and I have done a few nights of yard camping and have found some preferences:
-hate the center pole
-two doors would be better so we can pee without waking eachother up
-more peak space is more better
-seperate vestibules would be nice too for keeping our gear sorted.
Right now the Stratospire-II is at the front of the pack, plus nemo has a similar offering but it requires four trekking poles for setup instead of two. I like the double-rainbow but prefer to avoid tent poles where I can. REI also has a decent offering in the quarter dome II.
Open to suggestion!
