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Testing the strenght of the Vaude Mark 5 wintertent with modifications to make the tent
stronger.
On all my trips sofar I have always use the Vaude K2 tent or the Vaude Mark 5 tent.
The K2 tent is much stronger because it is lower and it is possible to use double poles in it
which makes this tent extremely strong. The Mark 5 tent is very easy to pitch, is a little bit
higher and have more inner space. The normal Mark 5 tent only use one poles, and due to it's
height it is not that strong as the K2.
It was a long test, but very successful. The next test will be a storm in Norway.
This tent will be my house for the 'Living on Frozen Water' expedition. This tent is strong,
very easy to pitch and a lot of space inside.
I did put some energy and time in it to make the Mark 5 stronger. I did make it possible
to use double poles and made some other improvements for this tents. It looks like a very
strong tent now.
On a mountaintop in Northern Norway this tent did catch some stormy winds. See the picture
below. The tent did keep his own form and was "not impressed" by the wind. I could make some
good anchors with much snow on the snowflaps and I did anchor the 11 stormlines on heavy rocks.
I will add 2 extra stormlines at the entrance, this will make the tent completely silence.
As you can see on the picture, I couldn't make a snowwall around my tent which you normally
do at a full storm. For camping on places like this, you need to have a very strong tent......
Testing the strenght of the Vaude Mark 5 wintertent with modifications to make the tent stronger.
It was a long test, but very successful. The next test will be a storm in Norway. This tent will be my house for the 'Living on Frozen Water' expedition. This tent is strong, very easy to pitch and a lot of space inside.
Camping "on the edge" of a mountaintop on the Lofoten Islands, Northern Norway.
Everything can happen when you go camping on Spitsbergen for one year. If the worst came to the worst a polarbear can walk through the tent. The tent will be totally destroyed then, I don't hope that I will be in that tent then........
For this and all the other things which might happen, I will have access to 8 tents: Two Vaude Mark 5 tents, Three Vaude K2 tents, One Vaude Mark 4 tent, One small Vaude Explorer tent and the big Yellow/Black Vaude Arena Dome tent (See the last picture on this page).
You don't see it at the tent, but it was very windy on that moment.
To make a picture with the tripod (on it's lowest position) I did have to anchor the camera with a rock!.
A picture of my orange Vaude "house" and the big yellow dome tent which will be my "living tent" on those days with less wind (picture taken in Sauerland, Germany).
Last update on October 19th 2009