Yes it is lightweight although if you are ready to spend much more money You can fund much lighter tents. I love the double door on the inner, not many manufacturers provide you with a full mesh door panel these days, such a nice touch on hot days when you want to keep the insects out. Finally, it comes with a very useful size porch - sufficient to accommodate all of my cycle panniers. You can always move onto another tent if you decide you like camping and/or your requirements change.

Compact and practical backpacking 2 person tent from Eurohike 2-pole tunnel construction - the cathedral arch pole design increases stability and strength. If you wanted to use your space a little better, you could ditch the bag, fold the inner and fly, so they fit in the top of your pack, and slip the poles down the back or side of your pack inside. I can sit up comfortably in the inner at the porch end, and there is plenty of space for my 65l rucksack in the corner of the porch. Obviously not the lightest, strongest, and sexiest tent but if you do not want to spend a fortune or you just trying out backpacking it is a good start. For many of us our first cycle tours are during the warmer months of the year (the madness of going touring in winter will come!

It is probably fair to say that many of us have attempted to put up a tent when not really having a clue how it goes together. I scratched my head a bit once inside my sleeping bag, ( I usually scratch something) I cannot for the life of me imagine two people of normal size, ( like me, 5 foot 2, slightly rotund,) managing to cram themselves inside.

The moisture was building up a little on the inside of the tent, but it was building up even more on the inside of my sleeping bag LOL. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. You have thought about camping, but maybe your last experience was a Scouts/Girl Guides weekend away when you were 12 years old!I've had my 'Backpacker' for over 15 years and, despite the fact that I have other tents at my disposal, it still gets used for backpacking and motorcycling travel. This tent is certainly not meant for living in as headroom is at a premium, I ended up with an achy back hunched over my stove in the offset porch as me fancying a brew and a light shower happened to coincide. On the coldest of the two night's, I did experience a lot of condensation on the inside of the inner tent, which dripped quite annoyingly on to myself and my kit in the morning! Lack of familiarity with the product on my part rather than the clear instructions sown into the bag, being the reason.