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Originally Posted by shakran
You're lookin' at the wrong tents. I have a 4 person tent that weighs probably 3 pounds and goes into a bag about the size of 3 coffee cans stacked up - - -not quite as big around either.
I am a BIG fan of Eureka tents. I've had my latest one for 10 years now, I beat the hell out of it, and it looks brand new. Never even replaced the poles. Look at the Tetragon 8. It's a 4 person tent (which means 2 people + gear can sleep comfortably) loosely based on one of the best tents ever - the Eureka Rainer. Shouldn't cost you more than 150 or so.
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Holy crap, are you serious?? 3 lbs? I am definitely checking it out.
Thanks to everyone else for your advice, too... if we're car camping, sure we can throw most of our stuff in the trunk, but if we're backpacking around Iceland or Europe or something (or the Cascades, if we ever get back West
)... no car. Plus we already have a heavy-ass Coleman tent for car camping... we want a light tent that can fit a coupla backpacks inside at night, basically.
Currently I was starting to sell myself on this one:
http://www.rei.com/product/745955 (REI Quarter Dome 3 UL) but Eureka is sounding damn good and cheap right now. Will look around and get back to you all.
