{"product_id":"backpacking-tent-for-one-1-5-lb-with-mesh-door-packs-to-15-7-inches","title":"Backpacking Tent for One, 1.5 lb with Mesh Door, Packs to 15.7 Inches","description":"\u003cp\u003eA one-person tent that weighs a pound and a half and rolls down to the length of a forearm. It goes inside the pack rather than swinging off the back of it, and once it is in there you stop noticing it. That is the whole point of a shelter this size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo poles strapped to the outside. No two-man tent carried by one man. No standing in a car park at dusk working out whether it is worth it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe weight is what decides whether it comes with you\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou already know what a tent does. The question on a solo trip is whether the one you own is worth the four or five pounds it costs to carry, and for most people the honest answer is no. So it stays in the garage. This one is 24.3 ounces, and packed it is a soft black cylinder 15.7 inches long and under 4 across that sits upright in a day pack with the rest of your kit around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tent stops being the thing the trip gets planned around. You take it because there is no reason not to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA mesh door, which is what separates this from a bivvy bag\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cheap way to sleep light is a bivvy bag, and anyone who has spent a warm night in one knows how it ends. You zip it up against the midges and by two in the morning the inside of the fabric is running with condensation and so are you. Open it and they find you. That is the trade a bivvy bag makes and it never gets better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe whole front of the dome here unzips, and behind it there is a second door of fine black mesh that spans the opening on its own. Leave the outer panel folded down and you have a doorway of moving air with nothing able to get through it. You lie there and watch the light go. Close both and it is a sealed shelter again in about four seconds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat you are actually buying, and what you are not\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a low shelter. It stands 19.7 inches at the head and tapers away over 86.6 inches to a staked point at your feet, so you lie down in it, prop yourself on an elbow and read. You do not sit up in it, and you do not get dressed in it. That is the deal every ultralight shelter makes, and it is worth being clear about before you order rather than after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a single skin over a heavier coated floor of 210D Oxford, and the floor turns up at the edges so the ground stays outside. Take it for three seasons of ordinary weather — showers, wind, a damp field in October. It is not a mountain tent and it is not built for a storm on a ridge. It needs its guy lines pegged out to stand, which takes a minute and means picking a pitch you can get a peg into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two colors are the same tent. Army green disappears into a hedge line and yellow is easy to find in the dark. Pitch it, roll it away in the morning, and it goes back in the pack without you thinking about it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDimensions pitched: 86.6 x 35.4 x 19.7 in (220 x 90 x 50 cm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacked size: 15.7 x 3.9 in (40 x 10 cm), in its own stuff sack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeight: 1.5 lb (690 g \/ 24.3 oz)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSleeps: One adult, lying down\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConstruction: Single skin, non-freestanding, pitched with poles and guyed out to stakes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCanopy: Polyester, sheds rain and cuts wind\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFloor: 210D Oxford, coated, turned up at the perimeter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoor: Full-width zipped outer panel at the head end, with a separate fine mesh door behind it\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeason: Three-season. Not intended for storms or exposed high ground\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColors: Army Green, Yellow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackage Includes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1x Backpacking Tent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1x Stuff Sack\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4x Guy Line\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8x Stake\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ridgewell Living","offers":[{"title":"Army Green","offer_id":52296609562920,"sku":null,"price":149.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Yellow","offer_id":52296609595688,"sku":null,"price":149.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/9430\/5064\/files\/01-army-green-riverside-morning.png?v=1787989016","url":"https:\/\/ridgewellliving.com\/products\/backpacking-tent-for-one-1-5-lb-with-mesh-door-packs-to-15-7-inches","provider":"Ridgewell Living","version":"1.0","type":"link"}