Advantages: Sturdy/Practical/Lightweight/Cheap Disadvantages: weak poles
I have owned a Gelert Solo since May 08 and have used it on a weekly basis until Nov 08 in Snowdonia.
The Solo costs peanuts and the next tent of comparable ability is twice as expensive. The tent is double skinned, so you don't wake up at 4am in a wet nylon mess.
At 1.5kg it is very light and the Solo's carry bag is as big as two rolled up newspapers. It ACTUALLY fits in it's zip up bag and has a repair kit in a zip pouch within. This small pack size means it straps neatly on any number of places on your bergen ("pack ", to you civvies!). To pack the Solo actually inside your bergen would be no drama either and it is ideal for all you cycling and canoe freaks who delight in shaving your legs, or drowning in rapids.
The tent has two poles. a big one and a small one, so even in the dark you can't mess up. The inner pitches first ...
pol10134 19.12.2008
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Advantages: Lightweight, Small Pack Size, Durable, Attractive Design Disadvantages: Small living/ sleeping space; Flysheet not easily secured to inner; Inner-First pitching
The Gelert Solo is a lightweight, 2-skin tent which is great for cyclists or walkers. It is also good for those campers who enjoy the group camping but not the sleeping in a big tent. You can think of this as a, seperate sleeping space once all the festivities have died down.
The inner-first construction can be seen as a disadvantage seeing as the inner is almost completly mesh and would get incredibly wet if you were pitching it in adverse weather conditions. On the otherside of that remark, however, the inner can be used alone in hot climates to keep insects off but a cool breeze blowing through.
The outer isn't incredibly easy to attach correctly. It has ribbons to tie to the inner to hold it all up nicely. I personally, have never tied these as they are hard to get to with the flysheet flapping in the wind and are also too short to ...
RhysLawson 06.09.2009
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Advantages: Fills 90 minutes if you have nothing else to do Disadvantages: Boring, few jokes, predictable plot
***Film Only***
It?s been a long time since I?ve watched a film as bad as Slap Shot 3: The Junior League. I?m sure if I didn?t feel some kind of twisted obligation to watch it as part of the UK?s tiny ice hockey fan base I would have switched it off within the first fifteen minutes - if I?d have even bothered with it at all. It debuted at midnight on Sky Movies Premier, hardly a sought after time slot, and the ?slap shot? in the title was my only reason for noticing it. That?s an ice hockey term, ya know. It?s rare for anything vaguely related to the sport to be shown on free to view television (I know Sky?s not free but I don?t pay the bill) so I get quite enthusiastic about it when it is.
I?d never heard of the movie before I saw it in the listings. This rang a few alarm bells; an ice hockey forum I visit has frequent, long winded ...
