I'm after a 1/2man light weight tent. The Helium 100/200 looks good for the price, but I'm intending to use it in 3/4 season conditions, so if anybody has some experience with them in bad weather I'd be interested in hearing how it performed.
I can't be of help unfortunately, but if you do get any advice from anywhere I'd appreciate if you could put it here as I'm considering the 100 for use over winter.
Sure no problem, I've been searching on the net for days for more information about this tent, and while there is pleanty of info for things like the TN Laser and the Hille Akto there seems to be nothing about the Helium. Which seems odd to me, it looks like it should compete with the other two.
I noticed there is a TN lazerlight in the classifieds forum at the moment going for less than a hellium might be worth looking at. I'd have had it if I wan't so broke right now!
I've just got back from a trip to Peru which included a 7 day trek around a glacier - my Helium 200 was fantastic even when it was -10c outside (there was frost on both sides of the outer most nights, and on the inside of the inner above my head one night, presumably from my breath!).
I appreciated the "2 man" nature of the tent as it meant I could have my kit bag next to me inside the tent and hence have liquid water in the morning... until I took it out of the tent in the morning when it started to freeze!
I had the warmest tent of our group by a long way! Other folk complained of frozen sleeping bags while I was all toasty in my alpkit bag. When used in England before I left it was a little too warm though as there's no ventilation other than the door.
The provided pegs didn't make it though, I swapped them for some aluminium spikes.
My first Helium got returned due to the pole starting to tear after a couple of uses though, so do check the poles carefully!
