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There's also a lot of pegging points in a pyramid tent. Several single females use the Djakarta, so its possible to put up single handed, but if the ground is hard the pegging down could be a challenge.

The idea of having a back-up tent is a good one, especially if you don't fancy pitching the other tent or you are just stopping overnight on route between main sites. We have a small overnight low dome tent, which has proven very useful for this purpose and we just dry/air it inside the larger tent after use by draping the flysheet and inner tent over the furniture whilst out during the day. We use the same footprint for both the overnight and touring/weekend tent, so at least drying this isn't an issue.

A pop-up sounds a good idea, but my concern would be about drying it as it has to expand to its full size or nearly to do so, which unless the weather is good and you pitch it outside to air/dry may be difficult to fit into a small to moderate tent along with your other bits and pieces to dry. Worth thinking about...

Helen