Originally Posted by
staehpj1
I always liked those two pole tents where the poles are hoops and you just stake the ends out. Not free standing but easy to tie the ends out if pitching under a roof. Always a pole, picnic table or something available and barring that a line run off the edge of the pad to the ground will suffice. I often pitched my Spitfire 1 with only two stakes if it was dry and four if it might rain. Great if the ground was difficut to drive stakes also nice to not need to carry many.
That SoloLite with two hoops, it needed two stakes on each end, and a fifth if the fly was used. I originally bought it for light weight solo camping, but within a few years it was no longer considered light weight.
In post number 9 above, I have a two person version called the NiteLite that had three hoops. It weighs a lot but I still use it for canoe tripping. I used it for several bike tours until I finally got tired of the weight. Nice tent.
Both were pretty good in wind, but the two hoop solo one would flap a lot. But it was not going to get blown over being that low.
The tail end of both of them, the fly poured water onto a waterproof section of the tent, that needed frequent seam sealing. The two person one in photo below. The dark blue is waterproof fabric and the seam between that and the floor needs good seam sealing.
It was so windy in the day below that I used the extra lines on the side to stake out the three hoop two person one.
In Europe I have seen a lot of Hilleberg tents, but they are not cheap and I see almost none of them in USA. Several of theirs have a hoop design.
https://hilleberg.com/eng/tent/