Many people love the way a free-standing tent looks on the showroom floor, but in the wilderness, a Cave shelter is extremely reliable, comes in an astoundingly small size, and can carve literally pounds off your back!

The Cave shelter can be pitched as conditions dictate to allow maximum ventilation and can be pitched virtually anywhere, even above treeline with your trekking poles. Caves perform night after night for years because they have no poles or zippers to break. And Caves work better than other tarps, too.

Cave shelters combine the versatility and ventilation of tarps with the weather protection of tents. Their Variable Geometry Beaks™ accomplish this by automatically changing their angle with the height of your pitch. You can pitch them near horizontally for maximum ventilation, vertically to shut out an end entirely, or any angle in between. In the worst storms, you can pitch both sides to the ground, the rear closed off vertically, and the front up and ventilating something you cannot do with any other shelter. Twin equalized lifter lines create a dome shape maximizing room and shedding weather well. A clothes line on the inside of the ridge allows you to dry gear easily.

• 3-season, 2-person
• Area: 65 sq ft / 6m2
• WEIGHT: 14 oz main + 5 oz stakes

• SilLite™ silicone-impregnated ripstop nylon: ultra-lite, ultra-tough, ultra-waterproof
• 2 Variable Geometry Beaks™
• Twin equilized lifter lines
• Comes with 12 skewer stakes, stake sack, SilLite™ stow sack
• Lair 1 Nest & Lair 2 Nest compatible