Blitter posted:

Picked up a Mountain Hardware Lightwedge 3 so long ago, that it was teal and purple. Bought a footprint for it and have treated it reasonably and I keep on taking it out. Really quick setup, and the fly/vestibule can be cinched in tight enough that it sees around zero use comfortably.

It has a surprisingly large window on the vestibule (their SVX window was brand new, iirc), which is really amazing; can see the sky if you sleep with your head at the front, and the weather of course.

A friend got one of these and after using it on a trip, I immediately bought one. MEC Mantis - It's essentially a tarp, with netting on two faces, and a sleeved pole. You tie it off to a tree (or use/fashion a pole) and peg/tie off the other end upwind, and have a pretty huge dry and bug free zone. Batten the front down lower, and with it oriented correctly, you can deal with significant winds and rain comfortably. I found a footprint (from some other tent) in a clearance bin that fits amazing well. For one canoe trip we cooked, ate (drank!sung!) and slept 6 in that thing.

Annoyingly, MEC no longer sells the mantis at all, and Mountain Hardware doesn't put windows in anything but their expedition tents, boo hiss. Discontinued gear makes me feel old!