Light weight and durability do not go hand in hand. When you make fabrics and poles thinner they lose strength and durability, there’s just no way around it. So the real question is: what is lightweight enough and durable enough for you? There is no best tent. It’s about finding the one that aligns with your preferences. And we can’t tell you what those are.
Personally my tent of choice is the Hillberg Anaris. It has no tent poles which is always one of the weakest links in any tent (and especially in lightweight tents). This way I know I will never have catastrophic structural failures due to windy circumstances. What are the trade offs? Large fabric panels make this tent quite noisy in the wind and really hard winds will deform it, but it won’t brake. For a lightweight tent it also has a very rugged floor that doesn’t need a footprint, which is something I value. Most ultralight tents are (in my opinion) unusable without a footprint, since the floors are so flimsy. It is also spacious, has really good ventilation and plenty of space for gear as well.
But there is a limit to everything, and if I expect really hairy conditions, I bring my Hilleberg Soulo BL which is an absolute bunker. But at that point we’re in another galaxy when it comes to weight 😂
I've had hillebergs for ages, won't buy anything else.
From motocamping to hiking the GR7 through spain... Never let me down.
Akto and Anaris are the models I have.
The trekking pole hilleberg tent suprised me as to how much wind it can take..! but a safer option would be the Nallo series, the worlds best tent hands down
While I don’t have experience with the specific tents you’re looking at, my advice would be to go with Hilleberg if price isn’t a differentiating factor. I’m sure either would work great for you - beautiful products from both companies.
I have a Slingfun Portal and I absolutely love it, but Hilleberg design is in their own class. I’ve spent probably 40-50 nights in a friend’s Hilleberg, vs. maybe 30 in my newer Slingfin, and the small details of the Hilleberg win the day. Slingfin’s design is top notch and they have great attention to detail, but Hilleberg takes the same care, attention, and no holds barred approach to quality but you know that every detail has been refined through an order of magnitude more cycles of use and abuse in absurd conditions. All the cool details that sound like a great idea on paper but don’t fully pan out in the real world have been weeded out by Hilleberg leaving an absurdly refined design.
A hardware product developer by trade, I can only aspire to that level of design quality.
Hilleberg is solid but damn those prices hurt. If you're not doing serious mountaineering the MSR Hubba series is way more reasonable and still built like a tank
People shit on hilleberg prices till they use a hilleberg in less than ideal weather. I’ll tolerate the price for the long life and ability to handle some nasty weather.
Most places in the states below tree line don’t need one though.
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