Alpkit Polestar
This one-person, three-season, two-skin tent is pitched using trekking poles in a criss-cross formation. At 980g, it’s lightweight and packs away compactly, whilst the stats are pretty impressive too – a 3000mm hydrostatic head in the flysheet and 5000mm in the groundsheet. As is Alpkit’s modus operandi, this all comes in at an affordable price of £150. Judge Chris Townsend said: “This tent is interesting. It’s surprisingly stable and I’ve never seen that criss-cross way of using trekking poles before – it works well and adds strength to the set-up. The interior is smaller than ideal, but the crossed poles give good headroom at one end.”