"At first glance..." - Review of Mountain Hardwear Lightpath 3 Tent 3-Person 3-Season

We haven't taken the tent out for a trip yet, but will come back with a full performance report from the Outer Hebrides (read: windy, wet weather long-term hiking trip) in August. First impressions: it's extremely lightweight, and feels very roomy inside for two + gear. The interior height, the flysheet colours and the 'window' all combine to help here, but there is a fair amount of usable floor space anyway - much more than I expected at 'the shallow end'. We didn't look at the instructions from the start - if we had we'd have known that there _are_ enough pegs supplied with the tent, and we'd also have got the flysheet more streamlined at first try. We're still working on finding a good way to put up the flysheet first in a high wind, and it may be that we need extra pegs to achieve that. There isn't quite as much usable space in the vestibule as I'd hoped, although this may be partly down to our disregard for manuals. It definitely wouldn't be safe to cook there, for example. The door design's going to be excellent in wet weather, though, I can see that much without testing it - the angles between the outer and inner door work very nicely indeed. The tent doesn't look as robust as I know it to be. It's definitely a female :) Packing is very straightforward; my teenaged niece (veteran of a single camping trip, ever) volunteered and got all the cloth elements, including the footprint, properly rolled up and into the stuffsack supplied at first try. The footprint takes up negligible space. So far, so good - but I'll put in a fresh report when the trip's over.
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