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)
Corax - Jan 8, 2005 6:28 pm - Voted 1/5
Junk+ 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.