You need to spend a couple of minutes just pushing all the air out of the tubes, otherwise the tent will be very difficult to put back into the bag. To deflate, simply unlock the valves and let the air out. Good internal ventilation and plenty of storage You cannot stand up in the tent but when sitting most folk will not touch the ceiling with their head. It also comes with a good loft storage area and loads of pockets. The tent had good ventilation with plenty of mossie-style nets on the inner and a number of covered openings on the outer. If there were three of you then you would just need to be a bit more disciplined about things but you would be comfortable enough. In terms of space you could fit two adults with lots of kit into it comfortably. I liked the small pockets for stowing the door flaps. However when this tent was fully inflated and the guylines were secured it was very stable and strong. The tent has a small porch and the small front awning will stop rainwater dripping into the tent when you open it (but only just I think).
Strong velcro strapsĪs well as a locking valve on each section there are also 5 access points so that the inner tubes can be removed and repaired if need be. All the seams looked neatly sealed and the stitching was very accurately placed. The workmanship I observed on this tent was very high. Tubes and the tent are connected with velcro and toggles The tent can be erected without the outer sheet (but that’s probably not advisable here in the UK). All the guylines on each side go to one pegĮverything is connected either by velcro straps or toggles. Toggles attach the upper guylinesīoth sets of guylines on each side attach to the same peg keeping things neat and tidy. Here you can see a little more clearly how the toggles attach to the tent. They are attached to the tent via toggles and one set of lines on each side is pegged out flat on the ground. The guylines come in an unusual configuration. Each tube can be locked off with these valves Inflated quicklyĮach of the five sections of the tubing can be closed off by this simple locking valve that pinches the small connecting tube between the main tubes. I was quite surprised at the size of the tent and can see why they call it the Cave. I got Adam to re-do the inflation of the tent and took a short film of it to show you how simple the procedure was.
In about two minutes Adam had set everything up and inflated the tent. Laid out ready for pumpingĭotted around the tent are 5 nozzle points only one is needed for inflating the tent, but all the tubes can be closed off after they have been inflated so that if you get a puncture in one tube the whole tent does not deflate. One tent in a compression bag and pumpĪll the guylines were detached when Adam opened it up so there was nothing tangled up. The quality of the bag was very good with a ‘canoe bag’-type top that you roll down to compress and seal it. The tent weighs 11.5lbs (5.2kgs in new money) so one for the car I think rather than the backpack. My initial impressions of it were very positive and I would be keen to try it out sometime. This post is not an in-depth review as I have only seen it once for a very short period.
The tent is from a company called Heimplanetand is erected simply by inflating it. I was shown what I think is quite an ingenious tent two weeks ago by my friend Adam Cottrell.
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