Extra weather and dew protection for one or two bivy sacks. Also great as a minimalist shelter.

A great essential for any backpacking and climbing excursion the Outdoor Research Helium Solo Awning features a lightweight design that can be used to shelter two adults in bivy sacks or a stash of backpacks crag bags boots cooking gear and other outdoor equipment. The lightweight ripstop silnyl canopy features seven stake loops with adjustable tension buckles and four guy line loops. Outdoor Research designed their Helium Solo Awning to work with adjustable trekking or mountaineering ski poles and the structure can withstand moderate breezes without collapsing (provided that you stake everything tautly and keep the shelter opening downwind). A guyline loop near the center of the Helium Solo Awning allows for extra clearance at one end of the shelter improving your overall legroom inside a bivy sack or sleeping bag. Reflective accents at the corners make it easy to spot the Helium Solo Awning when returning from base camp late at night. When you consider the versatile configurations and the fact that the Helium Solo Awning weighs in at less than a pound it's easy to understand why this compact shelter system is a favorite choice among technical climbers and hikers.