The lightweight tent with no sleeping mats to cushion us from the cold, hard earth provides no more than rudimentary protection.
Some cyclists minimize their load, carrying only basic supplies, food, and a Bivouac sack or lightweight tent.
In 2003 a French manufacturer introduced another design of simple and lightweight tents, resembling modern sprung-pole types of ground tent.
Today's flysheets, especially on lightweight tents, tend to be most commonly nylon or polyester.
You can get lightweight tents for under £100 (what you'd pay for a decent one anyway).
Or I'd buy a lightweight tent (I have a fetish for camping shops) and go for a night walk.
Bushwalkers and hikers would use conventional lightweight tents and sleeping bags.
And take one of those lightweight tents and those down sleeping-bags we issue to the smaller survey parties.
Granted, in a pinch, your small, lightweight tent would work, but it won't be ideal.
Jevy spread the lightweight tent over him and anchored it with two empty gas tanks.