Alite Mayfly Camping Chair Speckles Red

I expected a lot from this chair based on reviews and price but am thoroughly disappointed. Unless on absolutely level and hard ground I am literally sitting on the floor. On perfectly level and hard ground the clearance from floor is about a centimetre. I weigh 76 kilos so surely not overstretching the material, but this is exactly what it feels like. On it's maiden voyage on a recent kayaking exped I was the laughing stock of the group! We all tried everything to make this work, thinking that perhaps I had read the instructions wrongly. No success! I resorted to putting something under the chair so the fabric would not be destroyed by my weight rubbing it into the ground. Having a back support was better than no chair. With the chair sitting so low by design I cannot see how it does work in the field where absolutely level and hard ground is not guaranteed in all but a few cases.Shame. I like the look of the chair and the quality feel of material and poles but that is neither here nor there if I end up sitting on the floor.

I took this with me on a recent cycling tour in France-- the rest of my group all tried it and a few of them have since ordered the same chair! It's light and easily packed- at the end of a long day's cycling it's a godsend!