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Backpacking Nemo Tools The gear isn't low cost, however it’s among the lightest, finest made, and most nicely thought out gear you’ll discover in the marketplace. The corporate's new Mayfly Osmo two-person backpacking tent is a working example. The Mayfly Osmo units up rapidly, is light-weight, and cleverly designed, and it looked like sturdiness over my 5 nights of testing.
The Mayfly is available in two- and three-person variations and sits in Nemo's backpacking tent line between the ultralight Dragonfly and Hornet collection and the extra spacious, heavier Dagger collection (8/10, Wired suggest). The Mayfly is an efficient possibility for backpackers who need to buy a high quality Nemo tent that weighs a bit extra however at $400 prices considerably lower than the ultralight Hornet.
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{Photograph}: Scott Gilbertson
The Mayfly is a three-season backpacking tent that weighs 3 kilos, 8 ounces for the two-person model I examined. Purists might take difficulty, however for me this places it firmly within the ultralight tent class. Divided between two folks, every weighs lower than 2 kilos. It's not as mild because the Nemo Hornet, which weighs simply 2 kilos, however that's proper below our suggestion of protecting weight below 2.5 kilos per individual. The Mayfly can also be $250 cheaper than the Hornet, making it simpler on the pocketbook.
The Mayfly makes use of a semi-freestanding design, very similar to the MSR Freelight, which we reviewed final yr. This design saves weight as a result of it has fewer poles, however it does imply it’s a must to stake or in any other case safe the underside of the tent. If you happen to're going someplace you could have to camp on arduous rock, it's price including some additional twine if that you must get inventive.
The tent has two poles, each of that are aluminum. There’s a three-piece pillar with a hub that’s situated above the door. The second spreader pole goes within the center and helps keep the steep sidewalls that make the Mayfly surprisingly roomy for its dimensions.
The Mayfly gives 27.9 sq. toes of residing house, with two 7-square-foot vestibule areas for gear storage. In apply, it proves to be a livable tent for 2 folks, though not spacious. Since I used to be additionally testing Nemo's new Tensor Path sleeping pad, I can say that two of them match collectively, however simply barely (see photograph). There's a couple of inches of room below the toes for gear, however something you set in there’ll contact the sidewalls, which is usually a recipe for moist gear.
{Photograph}: Scott Gilbertson