Current Tents:
Exped Orion 3: My go-to, well-ventilated roomy 4-season 3-person tent that can take pounding rain without a drop getting in. I have been very impressed with this brand and have several of their products. It’s around 9 lbs.
Mountain Hardware Aspect 2: An ultralight 2-person tent at a true 3 lbs. Roomy, light and has stood up to 38 mph horizontal rain. It flexed a bit, but did not break or leak. Impressive for an ultralight!
Black Stump Pop-up Tent: Won as a door prize and used for car camping, this Australian made tent has some of the finest mesh that I have run across on a tent. I can set it up or tear it down in less than a minute.
REI Kingdom 6: For when the wife and I are camping without the trailer or just luxury base camping. The weight is just over 25 lbs.
I can recommend all of these for their particular uses.
“Past Tents”
Diamond Brand canvas wall tent: In Boy Scouts and through college: a tent that lived in the trunk of my car with a sleeping bag. Ah, the scent of old canvas…
Eureka Timberline 2 man tent: Sometime just after college. We even carried it backpacking.
Sierra Design Clip 3: My first easily backpackable tent. Nice design, but not freestanding, so hard to put up in rocky conditions. Around 4 lbs. It wore out from use.
Walrus Swift Solo Tent: Walrus made good stuff. It was not easy to find a solo tent long enough for a 6’2” camper and I could just barely sit up in it. Weight just over 3 lbs. Finally delaminated a few years back.
Eureka Timberline 4-person tent: A roomy car camper for me, my wife and dog.
Mountain Hardwear Nightview tent: A 4-season “convertible” tent (i.e. adjustable ventilation by a zippered panel) I miss this tent, but after somewhere over 450 nights and 18 years of use the rain fly just flat wore out. I replaced it with the Exped Orion 3. Weighed about 8 ½ lbs.
I'm sure that there are a few others that slipped my mind.
Good memories are made outdoors.