03.26.09

Our House Has Arrived

Posted in Gear that We use at 6:30 am by Administrator

We’ve just got our new home for the next year and a bit. Its a tent from Wilderness Equipment and is apparently so good that they invented another season for it. Thats right its a 5 season tent. I think the fifth season is supposed to be the monsoon but who really knows.
The tent weights 3.5 kgs and fits nicely in the paniers. Its supposed to be a snug 3 man tent but they have to like each other lots and lots if they were to share this tent. It is easily big enough for the two of us but three blokes is a bit of an ask.
The tent is a First Arrow with a siliconised fly for extra water resistance and light weight. The cool thing about it is that you can take down the tent part of it while the fly still stands up and so if its raining the tent itself doesn’t get wet even when you’re packing up or setting up.
Its a nice mat green colour so that it will blend in with farmers fields nicely and they won’t chase us off when we’re camping.
Ooh and my favourite thing is that it has a clothes line built into the inside of it to dry off the bike shorts as we sleep.
It has about forty five thousand zips on it which means that you can open it in 96,000 different ways but that basically boils down to the fact that I’m going to get taggled in a zip at 3 in the morning on my way to the loo and I’ll pee my pants at least twice on the journey. However, at non desparate moments the zips really help ventilation so there will be a plus side.
We’re going to test it in the wild soon and I’ll post photos when I do.
Tc

1 Comment »

  1. Malek said,

    April 15, 2009 at 3:23 am

    I think your maths is a bit awry. If each zip can be either open or closed, then you should find 2^45000 different combinations of open and closed zips. (My calculator didn’t want to know about that number, but trusty python didn’t mind the calculation, and gave me a number in excess of 2.2*10^13546. To give you some idea of the scale of that number, the number of atoms in the entire universe has been estimated as being somewhere around 10^80. That’s 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

    In other words, Trent, you’re f%*#ed.)

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