Maker’s warranty: Limited warranty against manufacturing or material defect for the lifetime of the product; electronics up to two years; covers bought from an authorized Big Agnes retailer or direct; repair center; repair parts sold. Big Agnes’s terms, read Oct 25, 2026
A two-person trekking-pole tent with an extra half-person of floor space for gear, in Big Agnes' HyperBead fabric with a hybrid single- and double-wall build. It pitches on two trekking poles.
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Against every one of the tents in the RidgeNote register with a published figure. Manufacturer-listed; sources and dates are on this page.
Main models on the same shelf, compared with the String Ridge VST 2.5 on the makers’ published figures; the tick on each bar is the String Ridge VST 2.5.
Big Agnes
Tiger Wall UL1
$210 less
same weight
Durston
X-Mid 2
$361 less
0.4 oz heavier (11 g)
Gossamer Gear
The Free
$280 less
1.4 oz lighter (40 g)
Not ranked: 18 with no published list price.
See all 55 →Big Agnes backpacking tents, 37 models in 13 lines: Copper Spur, Tiger Wall, Blacktail, String Ridge, Fly Creek, Sarvis, Crag Lake, Salt Creek and 5 more.
3-person backpacking tents ranked by maker-published weight: 16 models. Lightest: Zpacks Triplex Pro Tent at 1.36 lb (616 g). Median 3.92 lb.
Eight shelters from our catalogue, from a 504 g single-wall to a 2.5 kg freestanding tent, compared on published weight, floor size and list price, with the reason to skip each one.
