Specifications:
Capacity: 2 person
Usage: 4-season
Dimensions
Floor area: 32.3 sq ft (3.0 sq meters)
Vestibule area: 16.2 sq ft (1.5 sq meters)
Peak height: 40" (102 cm)
Packed Size (length x diam.): 22" x 8"
Fabrics
Fly (outer tent): Kerlon 1800: Nylon 6.6 Ripstop Coated with two layers of Silicone Elastomere
Inner tent: High Tenacity Ripstop Nylon with durable water repellant treatment (DWR)
Floor: Nylon 6.6 pigmented polyurethane coated and fluorocarbon proofed
Weight
Inner tent, outer tent, poles: 5.3 lbs (2.4 kg)
Tent, poles, fly, stakes, stuff sack, guy line: 6.2 lbs (2.8 kg) |
Reviews
| Corax | Junk | | 
Voted 1/5 | When I bought this tent I expected a lot, as it´s an expensive tent, made by a manufacturer who brag about being the best of the best.
+ The weight is good.
+ Reasonably easy to pitch.
- The price. Way to expensive.
- Unevenly sticthed and too close to the end of the fabric, which made the fabric rip.
- A cardinal error in construction; a support line is attached to the largest fabric area, with no reinforcement. The point of the attachment of the line ripped the fabric in a wind less than 15m/s. So much for the "strongest fabric on the market". Cheap Ferrinos and Vaudes stood solid next to the Hilleberg.
- Extreme condensation, due to bad ventilation possibilities and a fabric which is way too tightly vowen.
- If you open the vestibule, rain or snow will fall straight down onto the tent floor.
- Weak tent poles.
- Very "silky" fabric which makes the tent harder to handle, than most other tents when packing/pitching.
- A bad asymetrical design of the tent door, where you always need both hands to open or close.
- The wind stability is bad. It was almost laying flat to the ground at 14-15m/s.
- It has some odd details which made the base construction more complicated then it has to be.
The worst tent I´ve ever tried, (not counting "gas station tents" for $25). I have tried some other Hillebergs and they are better, but I have no clue how the company has earned the top notch reputation they have. The other ones I´ve tried are of mid range quality, but at a way too high price. | | Posted Jan 8, 2005 6:28 pm |
| PeterCorneliusSpaeth | Niak discontinued ? | | 
Hasn't voted | Isn't it discontinued ? I assume for good reason.
In the past I had a similar experience. After years
of using several Fjaellraven tents (they made very
good ones centuries ago), I purchased one of their
first geodetic ones, very high priced. Is was full
crap (designwise). One year later it was gone from
their catalogue. I found someone who liked it,
though ;-)
Peter | | Posted Apr 17, 2007 7:37 pm |
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