Test Camp #3 - Chessington World Of Adventures with Naturehike Cloud Up 2P

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I have a new tent - the Naturehike Cloud Up 2P, a free-standing tent! So I test pitch it in a local park (on camera for the first time! Limited instructions....I live dangerously), then go test it properly with a wild camp on Winey Hill, by the Chessington World of Adventures (where I did the last Live video from).
The tent is great, and as always bought with my OWN money, this is nothing to do with Naturehike, I didn't get it for free, and you will see it used on future hikes, and the usual M.O. of this channel - I don't do pure gear review videos and I use all the gear I buy so you can see how it works over time.
I didn't rush to put this out because I thought it was a fairly unventful - but in the edit I realised there was surprise horses, nearly burning down the tent, a drunken live, angry jackdaws, Attack Butterflies, and yes...My Biggest Enemy - slugs.
The Drunken Live video: • Wild Camping in a new ...
00:24 - Test pitching the Naturehike Cloud Up 2P
11:53 - The Wild Camp at Chessington World of Adventures
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7 сен 2024

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Комментарии : 18

@jaspurr6173 Месяц назад

Yes, I watched your Thames path videos and they were very enjoyable to watch. You must know that I am watching from ‘afar’ in Minnesota USA, I am English Expat from Hull. I am now 70 and looking back on my life, your videos bring me some tears of sadness and joy.

@harduphiker Месяц назад

Ahh I know Hull, a friend used to study there, visited a few times. Parents come from Sheffield.

@CampingRulesOkay Месяц назад

Such a genuine reaction is just what we hope for when making our videos. I bet this comment put a smile on Tim's face! 😁

@CampingRulesOkay Месяц назад

@jaspurr6173 I reckon Paul from @AnIdiotOutdoors would be with you on the hyena 2. He loves that thing. But it does take him forever to put up! 🤣

@harduphiker Месяц назад

@@CampingRulesOkay yes it did 🙂

@CampingRulesOkay Месяц назад

A nice thorough review 👍 i enjoyed that nighttime footage 😁

@harduphiker Месяц назад

Thanks...it was very chill up there

@roberttolley5055 Месяц назад

I got the Forcette 2 person single pole tent. Similar set up. Doors different

@harduphiker Месяц назад

@@roberttolley5055 I have heard of Forcette... Seem like a interesting bargain

@jaspurr6173 Месяц назад

I looked at that tent and the reviews on you tube and 'no' was my decision, I went for the OEX Hyena II, and at around 54 quid 'a steal', you need a tent that you can pitch when it is pissing it down with rain. Yes a free-standing tent is great but it is only 'free-standing' of the 'inner' once the fly is installed and pegged-out it is just like any other tent, you are now in-camp so you are not going to move the tent.

@harduphiker Месяц назад

How much does the Hyena weigh? ;-) I am guessing you don't hike long distance...

@harduphiker Месяц назад

I have pitched it during rain, outer first. It's fiddly but very possible. Not sure what you mean with your other comments, you can see from the video it free stands with the inner, or just with the groundsheet. No guys, the frams just stands on it's own. You don't need to peg out the groundsheet, it's probably a good idea as I pointed out cos things might shift...But you can move it around all you like. A free standing tent is more storm proof. Hyena is if I recall a double hoop tunel tent that needs tension from the pegs to stand up, those guys/pegs fail, it collapses? Still fairly storm proof, maybe more so with the heavier poles and fabric, but it's a point of failure I'd not really want. It means you can't easily pitch it on stony/hard ground, I bet it would go as well as my Lanshan 2 on a pebble beach! Also I'm not going to hike 170 miles with a 3kg tent.

@jaspurr6173 Месяц назад

3kg, yes, depends, on what else you are going to pack. In your video you say that you can walk home from your site, so not too far away. A one night camp out you don’t need much food and water or clothes.

@harduphiker Месяц назад

@@jaspurr6173 for that camp, yes. Which is why it's a test camp, I don't do test camps in the wild walking over a hundred miles with a tent I've just got ;-) Thames Path I did 170 miles West Highland Way + Great Glen Way 160-170 miles Thames Path Part two will be over a hundred miles. I might use this tent, or might use the Lanshan 2 which is similarly weighted, but either one, I need a tent I can thru-hike with for weeks...or at least a few days covering some distance. I mean I'd not want to do the hike I've just done to Dorking to Leith Hill - 5-7 miles there and almost the same back with a tent that heavy, it's around the weight of my old Coleman! And yes that was a one-nighter wild camp, but as the highest hill in Surrey you don't really want to lug a 3kg tent upto the top of it...

@sparker68 Месяц назад

Nice tent Tim. I'm a hyena fan but other than the cheap price and high hydrostatic head it does have it's issues. Btw I'm actually in a hammock in the woods right now. Woop woop broke my camp virginity 😂😂😂.