Mountain Laurel Designs is another maker of excellent pyramid tents. They also make net tents to go inside. More expensive than GoLite, but definitely lighter weight, especially if you get them in cuben fiber, which will be half the weight and twice the price....

GoLite has made a number of far-reaching corporate decisions recently, of which no longer selling their outer and inner shelters separately is only one very minute part. Their major change has been to discontinue selling through retail stores such as REI and to offer their products only through their own outlets. Whether these changes will work to the benefit of the corporation, only time will tell. In the meantime, there's not a lot we can do about it, and indulging in diatribes against the corporation is an exercise in futility. Frankly, the radically lowered prices during their changeover should have been a clue that changes were coming!

As far as product changes go, GoLite's decision not to sell their shelter components separately is no more a betrayal of past customers than are the annual model changes by footwear companies, whose next year's model of the same shoe will have a completely different last so that we have to start searching all over again for a shoe that fits! Annoying, but there's not much we can do about it.

For those "left out" by the GoLite policy change, there are solutions. A number of "cottage" firms make inner net tents (Mountain Laurel Designs and Bearpaw Tents are two that make them specifically for pyramids), Black Diamond still sells their net tents separately, and there is also the used gear market. Or you can do as Lori is doing and sew a strip of netting onto the bottom of the pyramid to make it bug-proof. It isn't as though everyone has been left completely in the lurch!