Your shelter on a thru-hike needs to be as lightweight as possible while providing you quality protection for all weather you can encounter. When getting your gear for a thru-hike you need to look at what is a good backpacking tent weight. You want your tent to be under two pounds if possible, though a …
While setting up camp in loose sand is a relatively limited skill in general across thru-hiking trails, there is plenty of care to do this right for the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail at a minimum, so let’s discuss how to anchor a tent in the sand and ensure a good nights …
When I started back into backpacking and assembling lighter gear, I never thought about tent fabrics, and I found what was the best option at the price I was willing to pay. Then I started seeing this amazing tent on YouTube called the Duplex and read about DCF. I wanted to know why people were …
Many new long-distance hikers may have never heard of nor experienced heavy condensation in their tents before their first trip. For many of us, this wasn’t a thing when we car camp or used our tents at a campground. When you begin thru-hiking, though, you start to stay and camp in a wide variety of …
There are many materials that can be used to make a tent. In this blog post, we will discuss three of the most popular materials: Silpoly, Silnylon, and DCF. Each material has its own unique set of pros and cons, so it is important to understand what each one offers before making a decision about …
You’ve decided to go on an epic journey. You’re going to hike for miles through rugged terrain, and you need a tent that can withstand Mother Nature at her worst. Do you go for a freestanding or semi-freestanding tent, or maybe a trekking pole tent? This may seem like an insignificant choice, but it makes …
If you’ve been shopping for a higher-end thru-hiking tent, then the chances are good that it may come with either no stakes or a set of generic stakes. While this may seem like a big deal at first glance, the stakes you need may vary significantly with the terrain, so do tents come with stakes? …
When you are looking at a tent for a thru-hike you need to have some additional criteria you may normally not normally put much weight in, one of these is that the tent has a vestibule. What makes the extra storage space valuable to a thru-hiker you may wonder, let’s dig in and take a …
Finding the right Lanshan 2 can be a challenge. Lanshan 2 is the most popular ultralight tent from 3F UL gear, but their Lanshan Pro series has some solid advantages that make it worth considering. The two Lanshan are very similar, but there are some key differences to remember when deciding. For example, Lanshan 2 …