Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of course, the ideal situation is to have both in your quiver of kit, so you can choose the most appropriate for each adventure.

When it comes to traipsing around the great outdoors, less is certainly more in terms of baggage. That's why we always see such an emphasis on making adventure gear as light as possible, something ...

Yeah, that s a good point. Three-season tents such as the otherwise excellent Marmot EOS 1 ($225; marmot.com) often have too much mesh to be good winter tents. But it does have a full-coverage fly, so ...

For hikers who don't need a lot of living space, the Rab Storm Bivy is an ultralight solution that can handle the worst ...

A shelter is a critical component of anyone's outdoor adventure gear list. While a standard backpacking setup usually includes a tent, there are other options besides a freestanding tent or a finicky ...

Outdoors company Crua Outdoors is taking the traditional notion of a tent and turning it on its head. The company is developing a new tent called the Crua Hybrid that can be folded to become a hammock ...

Most one-person tents are made to be ultra-light and take up as little space as possible, but the lightest and most portable one-person tent isn’t necessarily the perfect tent for you. A perfect tent ...

We've been looking closely at the reinvigorated ultralight freestanding backpacking tent segment lately, but it hasn't escaped us that there are much lighter ways of sheltering down in the backwoods.

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