Yeah, that s a good point. Three-season tents such as the otherwise excellent Marmot EOS 1 ($225; marmot.com) often have too much mesh to be good winter tents. But it does have a full-coverage fly, so ...

Why am I reminded of the scene toward the end of Pulp Fiction” when the John Travolta character, Vincent, berates his friend Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) over Jules’s plan to give up the gangster life ...

We've been looking closely at the reinvigorated ultralight freestanding backpacking tent segment lately, but it hasn't escaped us that there are much lighter ways of sheltering down in the backwoods.