[Music] [Music] [Music] Hi folks, I hope you're having a great day. So
I recently purchased a tent that has turned out to actually surprise me. Surprised by how well,
given how it looks, how robust it turned out to be and that tent is the Nemo Osmo Hornet one person
tent. And the surprise was how well it survived a storm so there's a UK weather warning here
and I was a bit concerned to say the least particularly has the fly sheet has got quite
a bit of cutaway. But in actual fact, against high winds and constant rain it really did survive
and survived well. So I thought I'd share this tent with you. So yeah this is the Nemo and you've seen
already how it packs down really impressed with the size and weight in fact the weight of the
tent is 1.02 kilos. OK let's see the features of this tent let's get it erected. Starting with the
poles, they are actually 28 centimeters in length as they're broken down by about 11 inches and
weigh 293 grams not a lot and I won't be giving you any more numbers as such I'll put those on
the screen and if you need the real technical detail that'll be in the description as well.
So the polls are actually the DAC Featherlite poles and they just have the the one hub and
the other thing is that they are colour coded. the grey and the green the or is it yellow!
Anyhow, the grey and the yellow or green and they don't have a overarching pole on top.
A volumizing pole of it sometimes known as. One thing you will notice is that these
are pre-bent just ever so slightly. So now I'm gonna peg in. I have to say not a
big fan of the pegs 15 grams each which is fairly weighty these days. Grey and then the blue
pull which as it gets dirty almost becomes grey. And so they're not great at being able to spot
them man if I show you one of the other pegs I just happen to have to hand. Because you can see the red
a lot better. And this tent is actually a few grams lighter as well but yeah not a fan of the pegs and
in fact even within two weeks of um trekking, I've lost one already hence the red one. You do actually
get eight pegs which is actually sufficient for the tent. So at this end, it's actually where the um,
the poles go into like a sort of tab arrangement and they can, at this end, be used for the guy ropes
on the fly sheet as well and it works really well. This end has got like a pre-wired corner
for the bathtub, the ground sheet bathtub. So now connecting the poles and ferns! And they're just snap into like a plastic tab which I will show you. And as I said they are colour coded so this is
going into a yellow tab and the other two are in grey tabs. So now we start the clipping. So this is the volumizing clip and obviously
replace some tents would have a pole here but this works really well and you can see here
the width of it so it does help to spread out the fly sheet really well I like it I think it's a
good piece of innovation. So a couple of features I want to show before we put the fly sheet on one
is this it's called a volumizer as you can see it pulls out the inner tent and this attaches
to the fly sheet so I think it's a great idea. That one's near the front of the tent. Sometimes
I think it gets in the way a little bit. I prefer the one at the back and I
definitely always use this one at the back. So again, same principle pulls like. And one of the
reasons it's easier to show you now is that when you come to clip it on the fly sheet the fly
sheets got like a round ring I actually think that ring would be better if it was square for
this to clip on, but I'll show you that later. Another thing to notice is the height of
the bathtub especially at the end here. And that is because of the cutaway
on the fly sheet that you'll see later. Another thing that's easier to see now is
this which is a diffuser pocket so to put your head torch in and gives it a nice warm
glow in the tent. One difference of this tent is that it does only have one zip so
we don't have another at the top here. I'm still debating if I need two zips or not,
obviously there's a bit of weight in that. On the two weeks I was trekking I didn't
really notice the fact that there wasn't a second one so I guess I don't need it one thing. I
do like is this door tie it's just so very simple, put it through and then just tighten it. And its is
so simple, why isn't that used more often? So to give you a truer feeling of the
size, I've put a full mattress in here and also a rucksack, a 40 litre rucksack. And what is interesting is that at the
head end it's actually 99 centimetres wide, whereas they've actually saved a little bit of
weight I guess by the foot end it's 75 centimetres. And the full length of the tent is 220 centimetres.
And the peak height of the tent is 39 inches or 98 centimetres. So this is my headroom, and I
feel fairly okay in terms of my shoulder room and I'm five foot ten I've definitely got a
few more inches here and I'm sat on an actual sleeping mat so I think that's realistic more like
real life. Yeah. I think there's sufficient space I wouldn't say bags of the space, but sufficient
space for my needs I don't want to carry any extra weight or volume so it's fine for me. Before I put the fly sheets on if you could spare me a moment and subscribe to the channel share with
like-minded friends and of course don't forget the like button. OK going back to the fly
sheet then, so yeah, over we go and get started There's bits of velcro that you can attach the
tent to. Now I have found them quite fiddly. I feel like they could do is maybe one one more
centimetre to make it just a little bit easier. The volumizer . It is a bit fiddly to do
but you can see how it does pull out the tent. That one is less fiddly because you can
actually more easily see what you're doing. I mentioned the tent comes with 8 pegs. So
you have like these storm pegs here so at either end there's an extra pull out point.
You only really need those if it's stormy. The rest of the time you don't really need to
do those, they don't actually supply you with guy ropes you got the pegs but not the guy
helps so I've added this particular guy rope. Now the door and the way in which you
fasten it is really good let me show you. So is this hook this vital. Just pull that round and again you can
just tighten it it's brilliant I love it. All tent manufacturers take note. So just to
show you the vestibule area I've just put a couple of things in there give you an idea of
the size it's actually 0.7 of a square metre. I think it's a bit tight but it and it's
but it's probably just about good enough. Now Nemo is named the fabric that they use
Osmo, and it's a new fabric. One of the things is it's a hundred percent recycled yarn or the
yarn is made from 100 recycled material. This is polyester and nylon. Then they say that the actual
stamp is 20 stronger than any other material in their line I suspect. And then it is three times
less stretchable when it's wet and is four times better water repellency. Yeah, it's all a bit um,
but I think the reality is as I said right at the start I used it through two storms and I didn't
suffer any problems whatsoever. In fact I actually love the fly sheet and in fact it was the question
I got asked the most when I was on the trail about the cutaway at either end and obviously how high
the fly sheet was from the ground. But I found that not a problem at all only in the absolute
extreme of wind did it get a bit of a wind kind of going through almost like a wind tunnel at the
top of the tent, but that was in extreme conditions. And obviously in summer weather that didn't really
matter, that's the reason why I think it's a three season tent otherwise you'll be pretty good
in four season except that wind would be cold! Like I say, I absolutely love this
tent I think the price is fair. I mean in terms of price for the ratio of the
weight and all the other aspects of the tent the extra little features. I think it is one of
the best ratios I've seen in terms of cost and weight on other aspects. As you can tell I'm
really sold on the tent and I've had a chance to really test it in what's been an absolute awful
Summer this year. Anyhow, I hope you've enjoyed the review thanks for your time and hopefully one
day I'll see you on the trails. Bye folks.
