Hilleberg - Unna

A Hilleberg Unna seems perfect for you. It's basically a 1.5 person tent and right at the 2kg mark based on minimum weight (2.3kg with all the extras). Solid build quality, commonly used in mountaineering where you also often cannot find a sheltered spot. Also fairly easy to set up in the wind. You can find a really good pitch video on YouTube on their official channel.

If you did most of your camping in the highlands, I could see someone buying a lightweight Hilleberg and using it year round. There's more than sufficient ventilation for the summer (not that it gets that hot there anyways), and the tent will stand up to the crazy wind they get there. An Unna weighs 2kg on the nose, they're not *that* heavy if you're not talking about an "expedition base camp" type tent

This is spot on, I have a Xmid 1 bloody brilliant tent, i sold my lighter Hilleberg’s (Niak and Solo). Kept an Unna with 10mm poles for the winter if you want bomb proof there’s no better. Southern Cross would be perfect option too especially if there’s a deal

The two obv dome tent contenders (Arc and X) advertise solid inners, but the images show unsealable panels near the top for both. Most of the time this is okay, but when it's super gnarly fine snow dust could cover everything inside. There would be additional heat loss, too. Minimally but still. Actual full solid inners would add no weight to these otherwise fine offerings, but alas. This is an unfortunate design decision, because a true Scandinavian style dome with all the defenses done right is 600-900g more. Mids are good choices, but stake points needs to be extra solid, and overnight snow takes some user participation to not shrink the floorspace uncomfortably. I find UL mid inners to be mostly fiddly, saggy and confining - and sourcing a true solid is near impossible. So for mid use in real winter (year round actually) I skip inners. Then you can dig a footwell by the door and enjoy maximum space. And space is important with all that bulky winter gear and potential inside chores. My winter tents are a Silvertip mid, an Unna dome, and a Kaitum 2 tunnel

I would normally suggest the Hilleberg Soulo, but you are probably too tall for it. The Hilleberg Unna is another solid option, with much more space. It looks like it has no vestibule, but you can unclip the inner in one corner to create one. Sticking with Norwegian tents the Nortent Vern 1 is a good option, or Varde 1 though it is quite heavy. As a bit of a wild card look at the new TFS Saga tent. It hasn’t been released yet, but there are several teaser videos on the TFS YouTube channel. It is aimed at the UK/European market. Suitable for taller European users, high winds and damp conditions. I think it will be available at the end of the year. I’m not sure any of these tents are truly ultralight, but realistically a 4-season tent that can handle high winds is going to be 2kg+. Checkout novice wild camper on YouTube, he is 6’5”, and does a lot of 4 season tent reviews from a British perspective; high winds and wet conditions. https://youtube.com/@novicewildcamper

I've used both. I find Hilleberg 1-person tents to be pretty nice size-wise, but there's no denying a 2-person tent feels luxurious. Right now my only tent is a 1-person tent.

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.

Hilleberg, TarpTent, SlingFin, Samaya. Real expeditions are more likely to choose Hilleberg. Their strongest tents are not super light, but they are made to withstand serious weather.

I swear by my Hilleberg, but that's a terrible deal, even on a great tent.

Get a Hilleberg! 😂buy once cry once.

Hilleberg is the tent for severe weather. They have different lines depending on how you want to trade weight versus sturdiness. None are "ultralight", but that is not what you are looking for in extreme cold/winds/snow.

I hunt in Alaska we always use a Hilleberg

Hilleberg makes fantastic tents. Not cheap though.

If you really want to buy once cry once, the best tents available are probably from hilleberg. If you want a very decent budget one to start out and see what you like and don’t like, I’d recommend naturehike

Completely disagreeing with this. This is a well known influencer site and list. So, it is merely a sales pitch. Lets check out the list: North Face Stormbreak. 200$ for a polyester tent in 2025! Half of the amazon junk would be more resistant to weather, and weighs half. It is an amazing tent, but only if we are in 2000s. Kelty, is it half covered in mesh, it is horrible in summer and it cannot stand winter. Then there is Hilleberg. Top of the top winter tent. If the list contains a Hilleberg I dont think there would even be a place for MSR in the list. The list then should be dominated by other Hillebergs. Also, where is the Zpacks, or Xmids? Where is mongar, or lanshan? Those are amazing <1 kilo tents .. some of which are on amazon. I agree, Amazon has a lot of junk. But also a lot of very high quality products not paying influencers. There are many better tent makers outside of this list and for many of the items in the list, they are indeed amazing products. However, for many I dont think their brand name justifies their price in 2025 anymore.

Ok let me pitch on the list then: This is an incoherent list: contains tents with different sizes and persons count, so it is creating more confusion than being helpful. Apart from that several of the tents there have well known problems: \- Hilleberg is a winter tent; if you rely on this list and buy it for a summer holiday you will die. \- Elixir does not use seam sealing and instead use a sealing technique mostly seen in cotton fabric tents, and it is known that it leaks. So late autumn it is a dangerous tent. \- North Face Stormbreak is a very old, reliable tent, but uses polyester, so it weighs around 3 kilos. You can easily find a tent with the same specs, much better material for half the price and would weigh around 2 kilos. \- Rei and Nemo tents in the list are all dome tents, which are literally replicas of each other (i would even say knock offs of Big Agnes there with inferior build quality). Many of them are half covered with fabric instead of mesh in their inners, which is terrible for summer. Always go for as much mesh as possible for summer. For early autumn, late spring they are probably good. But definitely master of none. I dont know how they are in a "best" list \- Kelty again is an old reliable tent, but has pole sleeves, so setting it up is a chore. It is covered with fabric again, so not so good for summer, would be good for mountain weather in the summer though. Still, material is outdated and setting it up is much slower than current lines of tents. \- Hillebergs are top of the top, and big agnes clearly earns its place in the list. \- MSR tents there are both very light options, but nothing special there. Personally i would carry 500 grams more instead of paying premium to a tent design that is so common. It is a very good alternative for ultralighters. \- There are other tent types, such as inflatables, such as popup tents, such as summer tents. The list contains none. So, if you are trying to find a tent to buy .. ditch this list and check out other sources. It is incoherent, it misses out a lot of different alternatives and it doesnt factor in criteria such as who? how? where? when? how many people? duration? conditions? It is basically the sunday paper of tent recommendations. A potpourri of cool images.

Hilleberg it is then. Assuming it’s 3 adults… I’ve been backpacking for “a long time”. I’d put up with a 2 person tent. No way am I cramming myself into a 3 person tent. I’ll just bring my own tent in that case. Nobody wants to be the person in the middle.