Dan Scheer wrote:I generally don't tend to argue with my porridge, honest!
What if your porridge decides to argue with you?
On-topic: I would not be worried about the weight, but I tend to carry a lot of weight anyway (at least: compared to others around here, I don't think it's a lot - for me it's comfortable). What I would be worried about is the weather turning bad: can you comfortably spend a rainy evening/night in that tent? For a week? You might be lucky with the weather, but this IS Scotland ... I have used a really small tent up till now (a glorified bivy-bag, really), and rainy evenings or evenings where the midges were out in force were not pleasant, for the simple reason my tent is so small I could not sit upright inside it. Got me something a little bit bigger (and also a bit heavier
), but that should make rainy nights much more comfortable. Depending on your group, and on how well you get along together, I would go with two 2-person tents (you can easily find second-hand ones for a reasonable price), and test out this setup over at least a two-night weekend (I never take anything up with me that has not been tested at least twice, usually in my own backyard - has the neighbours looking strangely at me, but I don't care
).
On the other hand: if you're prepared to improvise and are good at it: go for it and have fun! Enjoy yourselves, that's what it's all about and if you think you can handle this then do it. You've started preparations early enough that I'm not too worried about that at least.