Nemo Tools’s backpacking gear will not be low cost, but it surely’s a few of the lightest, best-made, and most well-thought-out gear you’ll discover in the marketplace. The corporate’s new Mayfly Osmo two-person backpacking tent exemplifies this. The Mayfly Osmo is fast to arrange, light-weight, and cleverly designed, and it gave an impression of sturdiness in my 5 nights of testing.
The Mayfly is available in two- and three-person variations and sits in Nemo’s backpacking tent line between the ultralight Dragonfly and Hornet sequence and the roomier, heavier Dagger sequence (8/10, WIRED Recommends). The Mayfly is an efficient selection for backpackers trying to decide up a high quality Nemo tent that weighs just a little extra however at $400 prices fairly a bit lower than the ultralight Hornet.
The Fundamentals
{Photograph}: Scott Gilbertson
The Mayfly is a three-season backpacking tent with a path weight of three kilos, 8 ounces for the two-person model I examined. Purists would possibly take subject, however to me that places it firmly within the ultralight tent class. Break up between two individuals, every is carrying beneath 2 kilos. That’s not as mild because the Nemo Hornet, which has a path weight of simply 2 kilos, but it surely’s nicely beneath our suggestion to maintain tent weight beneath 2.5 kilos per particular person. The Mayfly can be $250 cheaper than the Hornet, making it simpler on the pocketbook.
The Mayfly makes use of a semi-freestanding design, very similar to the MSR Freelite we reviewed last year. This design saves on weight since there are fewer poles, but it surely does imply it’s important to stake out or in any other case safe the foot-end of the tent. For those who’re headed someplace you would possibly camp on onerous rock, it’s price including some additional wire in case you’ll want to get artistic.
There are two tent poles, each aluminum. One is a hubbed three-piece pole that forks above the door. The second spreader pole goes throughout the center and helps preserve the steep sidewalls that make the Mayfly surprisingly roomy for its dimensions.
The Mayfly presents 27.9 sq. ft of residing area, with two 7-square-foot vestibule areas for gear storage. In apply, this works out to be a livable, although not roomy, tent for 2. Since I occurred to be testing Nemo’s new Tensor Path sleeping pads as nicely, I can say that two of these match facet by facet, however simply barely (see photograph). There’s a number of inches of room down on the ft for gear, however no matter you place down there will probably be touching the sidewalls, which is commonly a recipe for moist gear.
{Photograph}: Scott Gilbertson
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