In most two-person tents, the porch is a sliver of covered ground where you can stash your boots and not much else. Not so with the Snow Peak Amenity Dome. That front vestibule is generous enough to cook in, sit in, or stash all your gear so the inner stays clear for quality shut-eye. Peg the front flap out with poles and you've even got a sheltered little room to sit with a cup of hot coffee on a drizzly morning. Cross-frame poles and a low-profile design mean it can stand up to strong winds, and colour-coded components make pitching straightforward. At 5 kg it's heavy for backpacking, but for car camping or touring where comfort trumps gram-counting, it’s an absolute top pick. Also in a slightly larger 3-person version.
Snow Peak's journey began in 1958, when the founder Yukio Yamai, an accomplished mountaineer, created his own line of superior climbing gear. Snow Peak then looked to evolve by shifting its focus from the mountaineering equipment of the past to the camping equipment of the future. Fueled by the booming national interest in auto-camping sweeping across Japan, Snow Peak released a series of radically innovative products which focused on quality, functionality, timeless-durability and considered design.