Helsport tipi/lavvu, hot tent camp

[@TheAmazingElla]

Ooo the food sounds yummy!! I love camping in the bush herevin Westetn Australia with my family, there are some beautiful places to visit with a tent 👌 BIG like #14 - new friend #124 💙

[@customcraftmp]

Many thanks 👍

[@Ra-zor]

Had my 6-8 for a few years now. and will never get rid of it! Great in the snow, just shovel the snow on the snow flaps. For bad weather put tarp clingons on the snow flaps to hold them down. Superb for having a small open fire in too, I just throw a few rocks in a ring in the middle and have a small open fire (flames about a foot high). I found a fine stainless mesh big bbq pit dome to put over the top to stop any embers/ sparks trying to lift up. Make sure you move the pole about a foot out the way first, and wrap pole in an old fire blanket just to keep the pole cold (dont really have to, but should help long term with pole life). Made my own actual stove out of an old 12kg gas bottle, think it was a bit of an overkill as it maintains 28c when its -5 outside lol. Used a tube in tube for the flue exit at the top (6 inch outer with 3 inch inner, inner wrapped in exhaust tape and outer only like warm to the touch)... Once you hot tent you wont go back to normal boring tenting! These Helsport tents are in a whole different league to anything you can buy here in the Uk, they even put North face and Mountain Hardware to shame in materials and build quality (I own a Mountain Hardware Trango 2 and the Helsport is hands down better made)

[@JMoon-yi9tk]

Can I use a small fire pit inside the tent?

[@silverfox8310]

No tent protector??

[@customcraftmp]

I wrapped the flue with fibreglass heat proof material to reduce the heat transfer and made sure the flue didn't touch the material of the tent at any time and it was absolutely fine. I kept an eye on the temperature of the tent material at the peak and to my surprise it stayed quite cool.

[@mrwingman6201]

can you heat up the entire tent and sit with t-shirt??

[@customcraftmp]

In the right tent absolutely. The stove is rated for 3.5kw of heat. Canvas tents would be best as it's got better insulational properties than nylon but yeah hot tenting is extremely popular in cold weather countries.