Here is more from Dunkel on her experience:
“When looking for your first ultralight backpacking tent, it’s hard to know what features you’ll be OK with giving up. With the Nemo Hornet Elite, I still have all the comforts of most car camping tents — an upper pocket, some freestanding poles, a rainfly, and a vestibule — just made of lightweight materials. It is semi-freestanding, meaning you need to stake some parts of it out to get it fully set up, but it’s easy to do and a small trade-off for how well it packs down and how easy it is to carry. It’s a happy medium between weightier freestanding tents and tents set up only with trekking poles.
I opted for the one-person size, which is *very* much the size of one camper, but to my delight, at 5’6″, there’s room at my feet to store my backpack if I want to. That, or the vestibule under the rainfly, also fits it perfectly. I’ve had zero problems with condensation or rain getting in (though I’ve gotten lucky and have only endured some sprinkles on trips in this tent).
It doesn’t come with a footprint, but honestly, I just cut a blue tarp to size to use, and it worked perfectly (though you can get the official footprint here). And while this is for sure a backpacking tent, I love it so much that as long as I’m camping alone, it will be the tent I bring on car camping trips, too. Next up, Joshua Tree!”
Get it from Nemo for $549.95+ (available in one- or two-person versions).
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