Nice review! Another advantage of the integral pitch is that you can pack the tent inside out in morning rain. Meaning you can pack your backpack inside the tent, unhook the inner whilst still inside, pack that, get in your raingear, step out, pack the outer seperately and off you go with dry sleeping gear and inner tent. That has proven invaluable to me on sections where you dont have the time/food supplies to weather off and no cabins available either, in persistent bad weather.
I have the version of this tent prior to the permanent poles in the foot-end. In order to keep that end up in a breeze, I always had to deploy a stick or something in combination with the middle guyline when pitching it. The one issue I have NEVER been able to solve though, is that the head end folds completely under wind pressure. Tried all kinds of guyline setups and tightening different ways, never worked. Result is that the tent keeps on flapping into my face, when there is a bit of wind and I have had to put my feet in that end instead in order to get some sleep at all. Otherwise a very good tent and I always wonder why there are so few reviews of Helsport tents compared to Hilleberg on RUclips... In my opinion they are of similar quality.
@@tomsoutdoorsgearguide Thanks, i just ordered a 2P yesterday and watch videos for the tent that had the head against the wind.. never seen that before therefor my question. Anyway... the tent looks great and not that heavy :)
Nice review! Another advantage of the integral pitch is that you can pack the tent inside out in morning rain. Meaning you can pack your backpack inside the tent, unhook the inner whilst still inside, pack that, get in your raingear, step out, pack the outer seperately and off you go with dry sleeping gear and inner tent. That has proven invaluable to me on sections where you dont have the time/food supplies to weather off and no cabins available either, in persistent bad weather.
i still have mine in good condition. Used it for bikepacking🎉
Love this tent.
I have the version of this tent prior to the permanent poles in the foot-end. In order to keep that end up in a breeze, I always had to deploy a stick or something in combination with the middle guyline when pitching it. The one issue I have NEVER been able to solve though, is that the head end folds completely under wind pressure. Tried all kinds of guyline setups and tightening different ways, never worked. Result is that the tent keeps on flapping into my face, when there is a bit of wind and I have had to put my feet in that end instead in order to get some sleep at all. Otherwise a very good tent and I always wonder why there are so few reviews of Helsport tents compared to Hilleberg on RUclips... In my opinion they are of similar quality.
Great Video. Just a question. What part do you recommend should be against the wind (in windy condition)? To get the best setup
We recommend facing the pointy tapered end (where you feet would go) into the wind
@@tomsoutdoorsgearguide Thanks, i just ordered a 2P yesterday and watch videos for the tent that had the head against the wind.. never seen that before therefor my question. Anyway... the tent looks great and not that heavy :)
is this the 2 person or 1 person tent?
The 1 person!