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Ideal for trekking and backpacking through any conditions, the Vango Banshee 200 weighs in at 1kg per person when shared, and has a handy porch area for cooking and storage.
The flysheet is fire-retardant Protex HC polyester with a hydrostatic head of 3000 which is very durable, with taped seams for extra protection and reflective webbing and zip pullers to help you find it in adverse conditions.
Handy features like O-ring guylines and colour-coded Powerlite alloy poles make pitching the tent simple, easy and quick.
The inner groundsheet is completely waterproof polyester, and the breathable fabric inner and mesh ventilation ensure a comfortable sleeping area, with a lantern hanging point if needed and storage under the door.
The whole thing packs easily into a compression stuffsack, and comes with a repair kit for those unforeseen emergencies.
In drier climates, you could use the tent without the fly to be even more comfortable. An excellent tent for explorers on the go.
Reviews
By outsider
This tent is sufficient for use in -6 temperatures as i was in last night and i would recommend it due to its small pack-size and weight. It is a very open tent to the air/wind but is excellent against rain and frost...... plus its quick to dry!
Great lightweight tent, 04 February 2010
By Marc (Hampshire)
I purchased this tent to use for camping and cycling around the UK. Therefore my first considerations were pack size and weight.
This tent is so light you dont realise that you have a tent in your backpack or in your panniers, the size is small enough so that you can even put it in a daysack or just strap to your bike.
As well as being small and light, pitching the tent is also very easy on my own the first time took less than 10 mins and is now much less.
If pack size, weight, and ease of pitching are your first considerations you will not be dissapointed with this, it will also sleep 2 with room in the porch for your bags.
In Summary a great tent for all UK conditions at a fraction of the cost of small 'mountain' tents which often weigh more as well!
Caught in a Storm, 31 January 2010
By samuel88 (Bristol)
Hiking for nine hours a day is not easy, especially when you have to carry your food, clothes, water and bed on your back. In the past my tent has always made up the bulk of my backpack, not the case with the Banshee 200 however. This tiny, lightweight portable home sat in the bottom of my back pack and didn't slow me down once. The weather did however...
So there we were; very cold, very wet and somewhat lost. Our hand drawn map, supermarket compass and sense of direction had failed us, and the night was falling fast.
Being blasted by the immense wind and unrelenting rain the Banshee 200 went up with remarkable ease. It's listed here with an estimated pitching time of ten minutes - spurred on by the increasing darkness and with the promise of super noodles fueling our efforts howerver, it took us closer to five.
The Banshee's true colours showed themselves the next morning. We woke up warm, dry and lacking that awkward pain in our lower backs we were so used to with our little adventures. (We were however, as we expected, lost; time to buy a compass and a map from Go Outdoors? Probably.)
So, unless you're one of those hikers who enjoy's the dampness, coldness and painfull back-ness of camping, I can't recommend the Banshee 200 highly enough.
It is lightweight, compact, weather resistant to the max and best of all, it is completely affordable. Planning a hiking trip soon? Ditch the old tent...go and get this one!
