Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of course, the ideal situation is to have both in your quiver of kit, so you can choose the most appropriate for each adventure.

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 ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A shelter is a critical component of anyone’s outdoor adventure gear list. While a ...

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.

A couple of decades ago, choosing between a one-person tent and a bivy sack was pretty easy. The differences between the two types of solo shelters were more extreme than they are now. Early bivy ...