Gossamer Gear’s The One and the Durston X-Mid 1 Solid: First Impressions
I’m not recommending trekking pole tents for winter or deep snow events. This review concerns ultra-light tent options for long distance backpacking in the summer and fall and in moderate weather conditions.
In the last few years our winter hiking community has been doing more non-winter events—overnight coastal trips and section hiking the PCT, as well as other summer and fall trips not involving snow. We are in the process of learning more about ultra-light summer gear.
For these milder-weather events, trekking pole tents offer a significant weight reduction by eliminating tent poles and using trekking poles instead. Late summer and early fall are times when ultra-light backpacking methods work well. For this reason I started looking into trekking pole tents that I could recommend to others hikers in our group. After researching available options, I reached out to Durston and Gossamer Gear to see if they would allow me to tryout their tents.
