Where can one buy an ultralight one person hiking tent in south Africa that is of decent quality and offer proper protection ?
Thanks
Not a huge amount available locally that would count as ultralight.
That’s about the only thing I can think of that’s sub 2kgs and available presently. If you are willing to import then a Six Moon Design Lunar Solo still feels like one of the best bang for the buck ultralight one person. I find mine spacious and reasonably weather resistant.
Most international guys will post to you. I ordered a Dan Durston XMid 2 (via Kaviso) and it was here in under a week.
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Nemo has just landed in SA and Mountain Mail Order has them in stock.
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Nemo makes great stuff. Hopefully they expand the range locally.
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Hi Calypso
What is your experience like with the XMid thus far? Seems like an awesome tent from what I could gather. I guess you had to pay import duties as well?
It’s great, I would buy it again. The supplied stakes were not good but I replaced them with MSR Groundhogs. I’ll probably buy the solid inner in the near future. Just waiting for them to update the 40L backpack to Aluula fabric and buy them together.
Yes, there were import duties, if I recall it was around R8500 all in.
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Thanks for the reply. Not cheap, but for such a light weight tent not bad either. How does it perform in wind? Do you know what the maximum windspeed is that the Durston XMid can handle?
I asked them some time back (as I knew someone going to the US), here’s there response, if you believe them:
Wind measurement and performance is a complicated topic, with a lot of high numbers being thrown around. Basically, there is a lot of guessing in the field and on the trail, where the majority of people do not have accurate measurements, but are just going off of how windy they believe it to have been.
Having said that, our tent is designed to have a medium slope on the tent walls, to ensure proper snow shedding, as well as wind shedding. It is a high performance tent as far as weather goes. We have no reports of product fails in inclement weather, but certainly some user fails where stakes are not properly inserted, and therefore ripped out from the wind.
Our tent can handle up to 50MPH winds well, but anything higher than that, we would recommend finding a more sheltered site.
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That is quite impressive, 50mph is about 80kmh. Enjoy the Xmid!
It held up really well in a storm until the crap included stakes gave up. Restaking and bigger rocks held it together. The problem is when its a storm, the ground gets soft with rain so its harder for the stakes to stay planted.
Storm was enough that people in the freestanding tents were holding their poles up for fear of them buckling.
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