Lightwave is dedicated to the design and development of high-quality lightweight tents and rucksacks.
You can find Lightwave products in specialist outdoor shops in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland,
the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland and the UK.
trekking
backpacking
year-round camping
At Lightwave, we appreciate that not everyone is insistent upon having the very lightest tent on the market, or one using the strongest or most waterproof fabrics. For the large majority of users, in fact, what matters is that their tent will shelter them from some serious weather when it hits, is light enough to carry as part of a pack, and is durable enough to provide a decent amount of use for several years. And all without breaking the bank.
Lightwave's trek range strikes an optimum balance between all these end-user requirements – better, we believe, than any other tent on the market. The trek fabrics and components are selected for maximum performance and durability at the most reasonable price, while weight is kept to a sensible minimum thanks to Lightwave’s no-frills approach to design. Goodbye adjustable pegging points (we move the pegs), extra doors at the back (we can live with one well-sized front entrance), double mesh and fabric doors (a small mesh window in the inner-tent door suffices), lofts and acres of pockets (OK, we do keep a couple of pockets). The result is a tent that we think outperforms all its rivals on every count.
The trek flysheet is made from 40-denier nylon, which strikes an excellent balance between weight and strength. Like all Lightwave tents, the trek flysheet is silicone-coated on both sides to a generous hydrostatic head of 5000 mm.
The trek groundsheet is made from a very robust 150-denier polyester (except on the compact t0 models which use a 70-denier nylon). This is an area where many tents use 110 or even 70-denier fabrics to save weight and keep manufacturing costs down. For the user, however, this can be a false economy, since lighter groundsheets often need the additional reinforcement of a footprint (a separate layer of fabric between groundsheet and ground), which adds up to an even heavier tent as well as extra cost.
Trek poles are made of the same 7001-T6 alloy employed in probably 90% of all backpacking tents in the world. Like all our poles, they are supplied by DAC, who have the most stringent quality control of all the pole manufacturers we have dealt with.
Pegs are very important – without them, no tent could withstand anything more than the slightest breeze. Trek tents use our Lightning peg – similar in weight to most standard pegs, but substantially stronger. Costing four times as much as normal wire pegs, these are seldom seen on all but the most highly specified and expensive tents.
Trek guylines are made of standard 3.0 mm nylon. They work, and with our Linelok adjusters they work and adjust very well.
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