TrailPerch Ultralight Camp Stool (290g, 7075 Aluminium)

Helinox's Chair Zero is $139.95. This is $29.99. Same idea: a 7075 aluminium shock-corded frame that packs to the size of a water bottle and gets you off wet ground.

• 290 grams. Lighter than a full water bottle.
• 7075 aluminium frame, the same alloy grade the expensive ones are built from.
• Packs to 205 x 225 x 280 mm in the stuff sack it comes with.
• 600D Oxford seat that does not stretch out on you.
• Up in seconds. Shock-corded poles push together, seat drops on top.

Straight about it: this is a stool, not a chair. There is no back on it. If you want to lean back and watch a fire for three hours, this is the wrong thing. If you want somewhere dry to sit that weighs nothing in your pack, it is exactly the right thing.