If anyone cares...

Here's some pics on my new Lightheart Gear Solo cuben tent (with the silnylon floor). This is the version without the awning, and only one door.

Weight on my scale 28 oz, or 796g. Requires 2 trekking poles to set up.

Tent

Very nice, simple setup. Are you spending the night outside in there tonight?

That custom Tyvek is very cool and efficient!

Doug

I have a Lightheart Solo cuben upper, silnylon floor, though I do have the (first generation) awning.

Mine weighs a smidge under 22 oz (690g), and that includes 6 stakes. So I don't see how you get to 28 oz ?? Perhaps you're including a ground cloth? Or did you get a "so-long" variant, or ... ?

Nice looking tent and 4 oz lighter than my hammock. I would have to pitch Hammock on the ground ,above treeline out there. I prefer not to sleep on the ground but may have to sometime if I get back to the high country.

Am hopefully gonna sleep in it either tonight or tomorrow night. It's supposed to get low 30's tonight, so it might be interesting to test my setup when I have my nice warm house nearby. LOL

I dunno why the weight would be so much different. That does include the ridgepole, and it *could* be with the stuff sack, but more than likely it's my crappy scale. I'm seam sealing it while it's up, I'll re-weigh after I take it down and see if I get similar results. Ground cloth I weighed separately (5.1 oz).

So far though, I'm really impressed. I think it's gonna be killer for what I'm using it for.

*EDIT* My bad!! This is NOT the cuben tent. It's the regular solo. *facepalm* Sorry, dunno what I was thinking. I was in the middle of working 36 hrs when I posted this. lol

Best time to test is at home or car camping at a local state park. That is what my son and i did last year when new to Hammocks.

It's a sweeeet looking tent, that's for sure. I have not been able to bring myself to cough up for one.

Well, I slept outside last night. Or, more accurately, I slept outside for part of the night last night. About 1 it dropped down to 28 & I chickened out. I could have made the night if I'd had one more layer for my legs/feet, I think. Good to know before I get in the backcountry! The tent performed great. This was the first still night we'd had in several, so that was nice.

That's pretty cool.

Edit: I've never heard of this brand before and went to their website, they got a sweet looking design. I like how one picture it looks like you can set up rain fly to give yourself a view during a rain storm. Be real cool when sleeping on a mountain with a great view..Assume it really keeps water out when setup like that. If it raining side way it might be a problem like that. lol.

Check to see if a more insulated sleeping pad will help.

I'm already in a Zpacks 20deg bag on a NeoAir All Season on a 3/8 CCF, OM. I don't think I can get much more insulated there. It wasn't the "down below" that was getting me. Part of it I think was that I scootched down the length of the tent until the top of my bag over my feet was touching the tent wall, and sucking out heat. I also only had thin socks on. Thick wool socks & maybe something light to layer over my R1's would have done the trick, I think.

Etsu: I dunno if you could have one side of it open during rain or not. I would guess if the rain was coming the right direction, or you had some shelter overhead like trees, you could. The other really cool thing about it is that it's easy to change your open side quickly, such as if the wind or rain shifts directions.

I've used the awning feature a number of times on mine. Certainly if you have wind-blown rain you would want it in normal (not awning) configuration. But if wind isn't much of a factor or just light rain and dewfall are the issue, it can be nice to leave the awning up.

One really nice feature of this tent in particular is that you can completely roll up one or both sides of the fly to turn it into essentially a bug tent. Not as warm that way if that's a factor, but nice to have this capability.

This was one of the reasons I chose this tent. The summer nights here are nice, but the mosquitos will carry you away! I'm looking forward to being able to enjoy sleeping under the starts without the bugs.