3F UL GEAR - Taiji 1

Used a Naturehike Cloud Up 2 in stealth green for Patagonia, GDMBR and Baja Divide. Cheap as chips with plenty of room for gear and is a surprisingly solid tent for hunkering down for a day or two in very wet and stormy Wyoming weather. My most recent purchase for a different climate (cold/dry) is a 4 season 3FUL Gear Taiji 1 tent in a stylish khaki/coyote brown. I've only set it up in the backyard and not used on a trip yet, but the zips, poles and seams look to be a little bit of a step up in finishing quality than the Naturehike. But you can't go wrong with either brand. Both tents are about 1.8kgs including poles, pegs, guylines, groundsheet etc and can be reduced further by removing any carry bags. Anyone who tells you that you need to spend a lot of money on Western branded tents doesn't know that the Chinese tent brands are about 80% the quality of the high end premium western tents at 1/3rd to 1/4 the price due to economies of scale. I would even go so far as to say that they exceed the quality of a lot of Western branded mid range tents in the $500 USD pricing tier based on my experience of seeing colleagues with a couple of very well known and popular mid tiered tents struggling under stronger winds and wetter weather. The idea that Chinese = junk is simply not true. Usually the western brands have better marketing but they are generally all made in the same factory. The other thing to consider is that all tents lose their DWR coating after a while and if your pitching in very dry desert conditions the zippers will eventually need replacing even if YKK and regularly lubed.

Hubba tent has a single top tube, this design is made to be lightweight but it cannot withstand wind. You have to choose tents with another type of construction: half barrel designs (papa hubba type but smaller ones), two arches crossed two times designs (elexir type) or several arches forming a dome designs (3f ul Taiji and it's Hilleberg original).