Totally depends what kind of weather you are talking about and where, northern Scotland or the Scandinavian countries: hildenberg. States occ above tree line and snow or really windy/rainy: Slingfin portal 1.
Big Agnes copper spur, durston x-dome 1, if you want really lightweight trekking pole tent then the z packs duplex. I personally like sling fin, they make bomb proof shelters and the portal 1 is great.
If you have the cash, the Slingfin Portal is just a bombproof tent in the UL category. I carry the Portal 2 which fits me+kid or me+dog nicely OR is just really roomy with just me. I'm a foot taller than you though. The Portal 1 may be pretty solid for your size. Only drawback is of this tent is cost but I've camped in mine dozens and dozens of nights in all kinds of conditions over the last couple years and it still looks practically brand new. It's an all around impressive tent.
I don’t have a lot of answers for those questions other than the slingfin has a lot of little features the others don’t that are really well thought out and then the cross member support at the ends combined with the guy line connection points and how they align (plus possibility of adding trekking poles to further strengthen it) make this tent much much more solid in nasty conditions than those others. I haven’t had a need for customer service because nothing has actually gone wrong with the tent over the last several years and dozens and dozens of nights in it. Being a small business vs a mass producer I can’t imagine it being bad though. Small businesses don’t get the luxury of contracting it out to a call center overseas and knowing rei will sell another 1,000 units regardless of whether customer service sucks or not. I know when I was asking questions prior to purchasing they were extremely responsive. You can tell they really care about their craft.
Low cost, low weight, high durability…. you only get to pick 2!
I’ve been very happy with my Slingfin Portal. Not the lightest of the ultralights but it’s tough, well engineered, and still pretty darn light. Not cheap though.
I can vouch for the Slingfin Portal too. I’m 6’ 1” and no issues sleeping comfortably. It’s top tier quality, optimal balance of weight and durability.
As a guy who owns two Tarptents and a Slingfin this is the right answer. Only reason I don’t own one is because the others are still great and it would be wasteful to buy another tent
The pad is fine, I have one and when the ground is frozen I put it on a folding pad. The tent is fine but heavy. There’s better options, I use a Slingfin. The bag is meh and heavy, I can’t tell you how much I love my Gryphon. Buy once cry once. Both companies have excellent customer support. If you’re extremely new at this please have navigation figured out.
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.
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