Those are EPIC canopied, silnylon floored versions of their Bibler 4-season mountain tents. I have the Black Diamond Lighthouse. These tents DO rock, they pack up SOO small. only downside- durability of the tent canopy. but very water resistant, I've used mine on many a wet Northwest night.

EPIC is a NON-coated, very lightweight, very breathable fabric. Silnylon is a completely waterproof, very lightweight, non breathable fabric. big difference.


I really like the EPIC tents but the fabric appears to have durability issues at wear points. Some of the Black Diamond EPIC tents might be good choices for the OP. the ones with a lot of fold back mesh....

perfect for dry weather and very very compact.

I've been thinking about this tent issue. looking back to the earlier days, most serious tents WERE single wall tents, of various water resistance of canvas or nylon..... some of the mountain tents were quite light and compact.

tents had 'dew' or frost liners for cold weather... this became the impetus for design of double wall tent design in the 1960's.... utilizing the ideas of Buckminster Fuller as framework for modern geodesic tent designs, Sierra Designs, Marmot and The North Face began producing sophisticated double wall tents for the burgeoning backpacking movement of the 1970's and 80's.

Sierra Designs had a stellar, pyramid tent in their lineup...

a total anomoly, Stephensons Warmlite has made silnylon hoop tents for 30 years, in both single wall and double wall design, offering seriously light and compact tents....

Double wall tents touted advantages over single wall tents....warmer, keeping condensation off the sleeper, stronger in high winds, they also made tents- HEAVIER and BULKIER.

Having suffered thru 30 years of tent 'evolution', we are seeing savvy outdoorspeople and tent manufacturers returning to the simplicity and light weight of single wall tent designs.

The Black Diamond tents like the Lighthouse pictured below might be in the running for the OP if: price, durability are no object and they are looking for conveinence, breathable, incredibly small packed size and very comfortable space/weight ratio.

Seriously, like the above poster mentions, they pack up about the size of a nalgene water bottle!