Let's go old school...
This takes us back to around 1985, I was hiking in the Appalachians. Everything fit inside of my old medium-size ALICE pack.
This is me and my trusty red tarp with a poncho and two poncho liners for a sleeping bag. There was probably an ESBIT or Sterno stove in the pack somewhere for making the dinner that went with that little bottle of wine sitting so conspicuously on my knee.
I moved up to using two-person dome tents when they became available, and now use a Shangrila-5 as my go to shelter, but that little red tarp kept me dry and comfortable on a number of trips.
Larry