Sierra Designs High Route 1P Non-Freestanding Ultralight Trekking Pole Shelter for Thru Hiking, Backpacking, Camping, Designed by Andrew Skurka

Good tent. Lightweight but with enough room for my 5-10 height. Not much room left over for gear. Instructions should state that trekking poles need to be expanded to required height AFTER they are inserted into pockets in fly. I find that to be the most difficult part of setup. I recommend it without reservations.

tldr version: - tent is 2 pounds 4 ounces not the advertised 2 pounds. - tent has good ventilation while keeping you dry - Has a learning curve to set up properly. This is more than 15% heavier than advertised. This isn't much lighter than my other backpacking tent. If you are thinking about buying this tent, be aware that this is not sub 2 lbs. With that said, this doesn't seem like a bad deal at $170, but if it was much more there are other tents that beat this out. I got around to trying this tent out and moved it up to 4 stars. It kept me mostly dry on the second most wet night out camping I have ever experienced. Mud everywhere, super humid, rain, and cold to boot. This tent kept me about as dry as a tent can in this situation. I did have a fair amount of condensation on the inside of the tent, but when I checked in with other backpackers who were in the same area as me, I discovered even tarp campers were running into issues with condensation that night. With that said, it does require a couple of practice pitches before you can get a good pitch on this tent.

A great little trekking pole tent. A few notes from this evening's test set-up: - Weight: The packed weight (including all provided stakes and the stuff sack) of the tent I received is 2 lbs 4 oz, not 1 lb 15 oz. - Staking Out: The fly does need to be staked down squarely, but the decent length cinches on the stake loops give flexibility in stake placement and allow for easy adjustment after staking the fly down. I had no trouble getting the tent taut. - Inner Tent Attachments: The six inner tent attachments also have cinches, which are nice and provide a lot of flexibility on exact placement of the inner tent. - Buckles on Fly: The buckles across the rain fly zippers (two on the long side, one on the short side) should help reduce wear and tear on those zippers as well. - Short Stakes: The stakes are fairly short. It'll really depend on the type of ground how well they work out. I don't expect they would work well at all on sandy soil, and this non-freestanding tent is 100% dependent on those stakes succeeding. However, they worked fine in my test set-up. I'll try to update this once I've had it out on the trail.

First trekking pole tent I have used. It was pretty easy to set up. Not as easy as a freestanding tent, but not overly complicated. They made a video where Andrew Skurka goes through the setup in depth on YouTube which helped. Has enough room for a large size thermarest xtherm pad. Vestibules aren't the biggest, but certainly usable. For the price, weight, and the fact it is a double walled tent it is hard to beat.

looks very nice, very thoughtful design. But two serious issues: #1 - the stakes positions must be absolutely correct, zero tolerance. Otherwise the tent sags. After some practice can be done under ideal circumstances, but it is hard after a full day of hiking, wind etc. If readjustments have to be made, you run into the issue #2 #2 - the short, lightweight stakes included with the tent are absolutely inadequate for loose soils, they just dont hold. I took it on the camping trip to Western Sierra Nevada with a lot of sandy soils and had to use extra stones (see the picture) to hold them in place. The tension on the guylines is considerable, so with a stronger wind even anchored stakes got pulled. #3 - not that serious, but annoying - the guylines loose tension when wet, so in the middle of a rain I had to adjust them, overdid it, pulled out a stake - see #2. A lot of fun. I hike for decades, used dozens of tents, this was the hardest to set up by far. I survived and so would you, just be aware that there is a heavy price to pay for these few hundred grams saved on weight vs. the free standing tent.

First I weighted package and it was 2.4 pounds even without footprint which is needed with 20d floor. Very surprised by weight as it is only fabric and tent pegs… as my nemo hornet 2p is lighter. Second I did setup it in my living room with weights it was relatively thought pitch and there was decent gap between inner and rainfly. But then I enabled home fan on one side and no matter how I trying to tighten it up rainfly always thought net inner on the side. Which gave me impressing it will be bad at wind

This is my fourth Sierra Design tent and I really love it. The option of having the tarp or the mesh pitched separately is a big plus, however also having a vestibule to keep your gear dry, in a one person tent is very rare. I bought this for a flight out to Reno, Nevada to see the air races, but will be using it for backpacking in the near future. I noticed the Sierra Design website no longer includes this tent, which is a disappointment.

I found this one person ultra light tent to be good quality, and very light. The price was reasonable. The only issue I had was that your trekking poles need to be 119 cm and my poles did not go that short.