A new tent

Nederlands, English

There has passed a long time since our last post on this blog. We've been preparing for the upcomming trip to australia. We got the reservation for our tickets for the flights to and from Australia ready now. We still have to get visa's.

For our trip in Iceland we bought a new tent (because our original tent was not very good anymore after our long cycling trip through North America). But we realy did not like it very much, so we decided to buy another tent.

We found a very nice tent (the Hielo 2 from Mountain Equipement) at the Zwerkei shop.

"A ground–breaking new mountaineering tent from Mountain Equipment, the Hielo 2 has been innovatively designed and constructed from the most technical fabrics. This two-man geodesic tent is built to withstand the harshest conditions in the world. The Hielo 2 tent consists of a symmetrical four-pole structure with two identical porches for easy access and quick and efficient pitching. Mountain Equipment has integrated several concepts to produce more effective protection from the elements including snow valances to keep snow out of the porches, and a strong X-Pac bathtub floor with strategic reinforcements and fully taped seams. The Hielo 2’s stability is one of its main strengths and is achieved by specific features such as pole-stabilisers connected to the tent floor, aerodynamic air inlets to reduce wind drag and a D-lock internal guy system integrated into the gear lofts. The tent offers a surprisingly large space for occupants and kit with six internal pockets and three separate gear lofts."

So this seemed to be the perfect tent for us. We'll be trying out the tent when the winter time has passed.

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Het heeft even geduurd voordat we weer een bericht hier plaatsen, maar we zijn druk bezig geweest met de voorbereiding van onze tocht door Australie. We hebben nu onze tickets voor de vlucht van en naar Australië geregeld. We moeten nu alleen nog de visa's regelen.

Voor onze tocht door IJsland van afgelopen jaar hadden we een nieuwe tent aangeschaft (onze vorige tent was bij de grote tocht door Noord Amerika gesneuveld). Maar deze tent was toch niet echt een tent die ons beviel. Dus hebben we besloten een andere nieuwe tent aan te schaffen.

We hebben een mooie tent gevonden (the Hielo 2 from Mountain Equipement) bij Zwerkei in Woerden.

"A ground–breaking new mountaineering tent from Mountain Equipment, the Hielo 2 has been innovatively designed and constructed from the most technical fabrics. This two-man geodesic tent is built to withstand the harshest conditions in the world. The Hielo 2 tent consists of a symmetrical four-pole structure with two identical porches for easy access and quick and efficient pitching. Mountain Equipment has integrated several concepts to produce more effective protection from the elements including snow valances to keep snow out of the porches, and a strong X-Pac bathtub floor with strategic reinforcements and fully taped seams. The Hielo 2’s stability is one of its main strengths and is achieved by specific features such as pole-stabilisers connected to the tent floor, aerodynamic air inlets to reduce wind drag and a D-lock internal guy system integrated into the gear lofts. The tent offers a surprisingly large space for occupants and kit with six internal pockets and three separate gear lofts."

Dus dit lijkt voor ons wel een perfecte tent. We zullen de nieuwe tent uitproberen wanneer de winter weer een beetje voorbij is.


Hielo II