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A 1 person tent comes down to two numbers: what it weighs in your pack and how much floor you get once it's pitched. At the light end, the single man wild camping tent is 690g with aluminium supports, and the solo trekking pole tent is 780g because it uses your own trekking poles. That leaves more room for the rest of your camping gear on a long walk.
Floor space varies more than the labels suggest. The one man camping tent gives you 230 x 140 cm, enough for one person with a pack or two at a real squeeze. The army bivvy tent is a coffin shape at 213 × 101 × 91 cm, and two of the tents pitch at 200×70×90 cm. If none of those is wide enough, step up to a bigger tent.
Read the waterproofing figure on each listing rather than going by the name. The trekking pole tent is 15D nylon with a double silicone coating and 3000mm waterproofing. The bivvy tent pairs 190T polyester at 1500 mm with an Oxford groundsheet at PU3000 mm, and it weighs 0.8 kg. The one man camping tent is upfront about its limits: at 2000-3000 mm it copes with light to moderate rain, and after about two hours in a downpour it wets through.
On those two 200×70×90 cm tents you choose the structure: net, closed or outer. The net version suits warm nights when you want air moving through. The closed one has dark polyester taffeta walls that block light, handy if you sleep through the morning. For a 1 man tent with a double layer, the army bivvy tent has aluminium poles and goes up quickly without instructions.
If you camp through winter, the four season one person tent has an integrated mosquito net and comes in green or brown. The bivvy tent comes in orange, which is easy to find in the scrub, or army green. The army bivvy tent is army green or camouflage, so it sits quietly in the bush. On a hunting camp, string one of our camo nets over your pitch for shade and a hide.
