CampingNov 7, 2026
Six moons, one sprinter van, and the tents ultralight forgot to price high
Official homepage: https://sixmoondesigns.com Somewhere on America's highways, the president of a tent company is asleep in a Sprinter van. Ron Moak — trail name Fallingwater, a twenty-year software veteran who thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 2000 and decided life was too short for corporate code — has run Six Moon Designs from that van for years, designing the shelters he sleeps under when he is not testing them. Founded in Oregon in 2002, the company takes its name from the six cycles of the moon a long thru-hike requires, and it occupies a distinctive corner of the ultralight world: genuinely affordable trekking-pole shelters, built by a founder who wants hikers to succeed rather than to worship gear. This review examines the store where min …