Alpkit Camping Gear: From Lightweight To Home Comforts

With campsites opening up, it means we can start exploring further afield. Alpkit, the Nottingham-based outdoor retailer for adventurers, has plenty of useful new camping accessories to help you along the way. Whether it's lightweight backpacking essentials or everything but the kitchen-sink-home-comforts, you can never have enough camping paraphernalia.

Soloist: 1 person backpacking tent £119.99

The Soloist is a lightweight, compact and stable backpacking tent with plenty of headroom for multi-day wilderness adventures or extended bike tours.

• Low weight and compact pack-size for backpacking/bikepacking
• Tall enough to sit up in and comfortable over multiple days
• Stable and free-standing single pole structure that’s quick to pitch

The Soloist uses lightweight fabrics and short pole sections to create a compact package weighing just 1.2kg (1.3kg for the XL) and packing down to the size of a bottle of wine. This allows you to keep your overall pack size down, makes it easier to stow on your bike, and keeps your luggage weight low and your enjoyment levels high on multi-day trips.

Roundhouse: Organic cotton bell tent £499.99

The Roundhouse is a luxury two-person bell tent, using sustainable, long-lasting materials. Highly breathable polycotton canvas maintains a comfortable climate of fresh air day and night, staying cool in the heat and warm in the cold.

• Polycotton canvas uses 100% organic cotton
• Breathable cotton lets in the fresh air and is almost condensation-free
• Polycotton canvas has much higher UV resistance and longevity

Pipedream 200 £129.99

Thanks to its high warm-to-weight ratio 750FP down, gram-saving stitch-through baffles and an uncluttered design, the PipeDream 200’s weighs just 545g – easily Alpkit's lightest bag. It packs down to the size of a large grapefruit, making it the ideal bag for keeping your pack-size down, without sacrificing any shut-eye.

Cloud Base: Inflatable sleeping mat £44.99

Lightweight, thick, comfortable and easy to inflate and deflate. Cloud Base is designed to make lightweight camping comfortable night after night after night, leaving you refreshed and ready to get after the day.

Koro: Mountaineering stove £47.99

A high powered camping stove suitable for mountaineering in subzero conditions and made out of titanium to save weight.

But this is no gas guzzler; a brass pre-heat tube ensures the fuel is vaporised by the time it reaches the burner. The result is a constant and controllable flow of gas which reduces spluttering and works better in freezing conditions.

Soundbite: Bluetooth speaker and camping lantern £34.99

A combination of Bluetooth speaker and camping lantern, the rechargeable Soundbite provides a slice of electronic home comfort in one light and compact package.

• Built-in Bluetooth speaker with 8-24hrs play time
• A rechargeable camping lantern with 3 settings
• Magnetic clip and hanging hook to stick/hang anywhere

Flare: Folding USB solar panel £39.99

The super-thin, 305g Flare solar panel folds neatly away for easy packing in backpacks and bike luggage, allowing you to keep your devices charged in remote wilderness areas.

• Charges an iPhone in around 1.5 hours in full sun conditions
• Compatible with USB power packs to store charge
• Folds away to fit neatly inside rucksacks and bike luggage

MytiMug 650: Titanium cooking mug £29.99

When all you have to do is think of yourself, you can really pair things down. MytiMug 650 can be used on a stove to cook your meal while on an expedition or just mooching around your camp fire. You can eat from it and drink from it; coffee doesn't taste quite as good as it does from a china mug, but it has cowboy charm.

Why titanium? Titanium is one of the most abundant elements on earth. Lightweight and very, very strong. It is super inert - this is a benefit environmentally as it is recyclable, plus its resistance to corrosion means it doesn't pollute air, land and oceans. But it also makes for superb cookware as there's no metallic taste.

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Editors notes

Alpkit is a premium multi-activity outdoor and bike brand for enthusiasts and adventurers. Agile, vibrant and sustainable. We’re digital-first connecting customers online and in our unique stores. We're the only multi-activity performance outdoor brand like this in the UK. Our supply chain is shorter, our price-tags sharp. Our aim is simple: use digital technology to redefine the UK outdoor industry and unite the design quality of a performance sports brand with the customer service of a specialist store. It is our love of the outdoors that makes Alpkit: responsible, expert, enthusiastic, determined and fair. Sustainability is ingrained throughout everything we do. Since first writing our guidelines in 2004 we are the first UK outdoor brand to publish a clear and comprehensive Sustainability Report and are recognised by our peers in the outdoor industry as an example of best practice in environmental responsibility and sustainability. We are founder members of The Microfibre Consortium and the outdoor industry Single Use Plastics Project and in 2020 we became a Certified B Corporation.