scotsmist wrote:is there an update to this thread
Value wise the Chinese are smashing things out of the park, quality tents cloning Western designs for about £90 on Aliexpress, variants of popular tents by SMD, Zpacks, Tarptent, Big Agnes, MSR.
Performance wise Dyneema (Cuben Fibre) is starting to filter out of boutique and into the lineups of the bigger boys, e.g. Big Agnes Fly Creek HV1 is about 450g and the Tiger Wall 2 is about 650g. But they'll eat the thick end of a grand out of your hand.
It'll be lovely when the Chinese eventually get round to using Cuben.
basscadet wrote:I just dont get what a 4 season tent has over a 3 season?
As said, geodesic tents are used for gale-force on mountains. For less extreme but still very cold conditions it can be things like having a snow skirt, or having an inner that isn't mainly mesh; some tents you can swap a mesh inner for a mainly nylon inner.
You say you've been out in all sorts of weather in your 3 season tent; what's the lowest temperature you've hit? Minus ten? Minus twenty?