No, I have actually never heard of the arctic bedding, or even the Hilleberg tent bagrandoskier wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 11:02 am[I wish I had a Hilleberg or Helsport tunnel tent .They have huge advantages. Number one is that the fly is already attached so it pitches with the fly already on (mine is bitch to pitch and can get wet while you are pitching the inner-tent before the fly goes on). They offer huge vestibules or even two huge ones (good to have for > 2 person tents). They make a long tent-bag- like 2 meters (rides on top of the pulk- over-hanging that allows you to take only half the pole out of the arch and to simply roll the tent. So breakdown and set-up are very fast and simple, even in bad weather. A 3-person model is better for 2 people. They cost a lot though- maybe next year!
Have you seen the Piteraq Arctic Bedding. It is bag that holds a sleeping pad, air matress and your sleeping bag- all laid out ready to go you don't pack them up, it also has pockets for everything else you need in the camp- stove, booties, etc. The idea is you pitch your tentand just throw this bag in the tent un-zip it and you are camoing- no stuff bags to unpack and later pack, no matress to blow up. It was invented by a Norwegian guy for his Antarctica trip. They are also about 2 meters long. You see a lot hanging off pulks around Sarek. I might try this on my 2nd tour but my idea is to half-inflate the air mattress and fold the whole thingy in half-then put it under my pulk cover . I don't like the 2m idea and I like short pulks.
This is the Arctic Bedding you can see the long Hilleberg tent sack under it. As you can see it is better foer wide open spaces, not ideal for Bushwhacking!
Great info, thanks! We actually bought Hilleberg’s biggest and strongest tunnel tent, Keron 4 GT, when we got our second child. That was after we had three tents already in our family, and still not room for a four person family
We thought that if it withstands Greenland crossings, it will withstand a small-children-family, too. And, for it is forward compatible for overnight ski tours in less visited areas, too. We already had an 2- or 3-person Hilleberg, Nallo 2 or 3. Nallo is basically a winter tent, too. Yet it ks not really suitable for many tent nights in a row because it is so small.We halso have pulks like the one on the video, Erapro Paris. They are cheap and durable. Mechanisms need some tinkering and cost more than the pulk. Like the pulk on the video, we also pull the Paris pulks with ropes. In addition, our pulks have ~80 cm chains for braking at the front of our pulks. The pull ropes run through chain holes. When you throw the chain under your pulk, it takes down excess speed, when going downhill.
The tent that once got torn in a storm, was a ridge tent. They have sharp folds at top corners, where poles go through. The tent was torn at one of those spots. Tunnel tents do not have those weak spots.
