Lab Notes

I reckon a sewn in groundsheet-like a standard tent “bucket floor” would be a good addition. I have stayed in many tents, and in general, if I have got wet it was from a poor groundsheet-I reckon its worth the weight to have a bombproof sewn in ground sheet. Also perhaps a midgeproof door inside the outer door would give potential for ventelation without adding too much weight. my experience of ‘mids is that the door needs to be unzipped to the ceiling often, which leaves a lot of the tent open to the elements, and perhaps a circular door would be better. I also second the guy line and snow skirt-they would make it more versatile. of course all this would add weight, but you could make different model with different specs.
hope that helps.

Used Tee-pee style tents in Norway / Greenland a few years ago and generally found them to be pretty stable once they where guyed out.

From the image on the web site this tent doesn’t have any guy lines. You could do with them on every seam, usually with two points connected with one line. Also a lower section ‘flap’ of fabric across each panel with another set of lines about 18inches from the floor.

If this is going to be a single skin tent then using mesh to connect the fly sheet to the ground sheet would still give the air flow and meet with kimm / lamm rules, snow valances with tie back points could also be an option. Leave them out and use it as a base camp shelter if dug in / held with stones if no peg point available. Or roll them up for more air flow.. Or have the ground sheet removable held in with Velcro attached to the mesh / fly

Hope this adds to the ideas list

Have a look at GoLite’s equivalent. They have done a similar thing (excl. the snowskirt idea) and it sounds as if their pole solution is neater:-
A short pole designed to be fitted onto the point of an upturned treking pole. I suggested this to them a while back.
Having read tests of this tent, two comments seem to arise:-
1) Its draughtiness if just a ground sheet is used. They now offer a dedicted mosie-proof inner too.
2) Difficulty in keeping the sides / edges taught to stop it flapping in the wind. Catenary cut panels might help with this.
Re condensation, do you have avent near the top to allow moisture out if cooking?

I was in the states a while ago (twenty years again...) and the guys i was wilderness backpacking with were into the pyramid fly thing.  I would suggest you include an attachment point at the apex - in forested areas a tension line between trunks can be used as a suspension, rather than go for the pole (I suppose if you have an eyelet for the pole at the apex this would be adequate).  If I were going to do this then I’d include a flyer about how to do a tension hitch (old git...aware that they don’t teach anything worthwhile in schools these days )

Also - think snow skirt - gives the option of added draught proofing, and of using boulders instead of pegs in rocky areas.  You could put the pegging eyelets in the skirt, which gives the option of using them for ground level guys.

If you can sort heat problems out sounds fantastic for summer treks!! Wouldn’t trust it in anything above a nats fart of wind though!!!

Sounds like your ground sheet isn’t sewn-in?  Would be a problem for some events, eg KIMM.

What about midgies? I think you’d need to have some midgeproof inner option.

Not sure I’d want to use it in high winds or in exposed locations-I imagine the high profile of it might catch in the wind…

looking to buy a ‘mid for me and the lad in summer to use with a trekking pole: make me one!!!!