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The VLT is a single skin fully waterproof single person tent designed for backpacking. It fully protects against wind, water and insects and it is ideally pitched using two trekking poles, but can also be pitched with a single pole or trekking pole.
At under 950 grams the VLT falls into the Very Lightweight category rather than Ultra-Lightweight category for backpacking tents. Making a tent in this category means that we were able to design it to be spacious, both inside the tent and the porch, and with a generous head height compared to other similar tents.
We’ve also used 15D silicon coated fabric for the flysheet and 20D double sides silicon coated for the floor – these fabrics offer longer term durability compared to 10D and 7D fabrics used by Ultra-Lightweight tent manufacturers, and the waterproof ratings are generally higher.
The mesh inner is a B3 mesh which has the lowest holes per inch, required sizing to keep the Scottish midge from getting inside the tent.
Pitching the tent with two trekking poles allows you to maximise the internal volume of the tent and massively improves the integrity of the internal space in windy conditions – lightweight tents without the ability to support the sides suffer badly from the wind compromising the inside volume by blowing the tent out of shape. The VLT solves this problem completely.
As with all single skin tents you will experience condensation when using the VLT, people who have not used single skin tents before are often surprised by how much condensation results from a night sleeping in one, this is normal and should be mopped up in the morning if required. There are two vents in the tent which should help reduce the amount of condensation though to work effectively there needs to be an airflow, a light wind is ideal.
When conditions allow try sleeping with the door fastened open – this works like a massive vent and is an effective measure to reduce condensation – it’s also a nice way to sleep.
All the seams are fully taped and the VLT is waterproof ‘out of the box’, there should be no need for seam sealing any of the seams.
Features
- Pitches with one or two trekking poles.
- Mesh inner panels ensure an insect free zone inside
- Main guy-lines ensure a taut pitch is achieved - sheds wind well
- Taped seams ensure fully waterproof seal
- Weather protected rear vent
- Large side porch
- Reflective main zip and pegging points
- Internal height and large zipped doorway provides ‘easy in’ and ‘easy out’ access
- 10 lightweight aluminium pegs supplied
Specifications
- Tent weighs: 934g (weight of tent, guys etc.. excludes pegs but includes short rear pole)
- Pegs x10 weigh: 118g
- Maximum internal width: 120cm / 3ft 11ins
- Maximum internal length: 220cm / 7ft 2ins wide at the front
- Maximum Height: 120cm / 3ft 11in
- Rear Height: 35cm / 1ft 2in
- Main tent fabric is silicon coated 15D nylon with a hydrostatic head of 3000mm
- Groundsheet fabric is double sided silicon coated 20D nylon with a hydrostatic head of 3000mm
- Tent comes with short rear pole. Trekking poles sold separately
