- This is the Zempire Zeus two person hiking tent.
It is really popular and really affordable
and I wanna take you for a walk-through today.
Let's get started.
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- Ben from Snowy's here, guys,
at the Brownhill Creek Tourist Park
in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide.
It's a leafy spot 20 minutes from the city,
20 minutes from the beach
and not far at all from the Adelaide hills.
They have given us this beautiful spot here today
to show you some products and behind me
is the Zempire Zeus two-person hiking tent.
This is a really popular and affordable tent.
I'm going to take you for a walk-through.
Let's first have a look at the outside of the tent.
So the geometry of the tent, or the structure of the frame,
gives it plenty of room.
It's almost symmetrical, if we cut it down the middle
this way, it's the same on each side.
But there's a higher end here and a lower end there,
so the pole hub sits lower at that end.
So at the foot end here, it's lower down
and there is a vent here with a guy rope attached
to allow airflow through.
There's also another vent on this end here
with another guy rope attached.
Up underneath here is a mesh panel,
allows the airflow high through the tent.
The vestibule that you see on this side
and the entrance is the zipper down here,
is mirrored on the other side,
so there's two entrances to this tent,
and this vestibule, the doors,
there's tabs on each side here which allow us
to open this vestibule right up
or leave it half closed for a bit of protection.
Now, the fabrics that Zempire have used
for the Zeus tent, the flysheet is a 75 denier,
210 thread count Rip-Stop polyester.
It's got a 3000 mil waterhead and a seam sealed throughout.
Moving inside the tent,
it's all a polyester mesh upper throughout
so it's a nice breezy three season tent.
The floor is 150 denier polyester with a 10000 mil waterhead
so it's gonna give you tonnes of protection
in damp environments.
And the frame that's up underneath here
is eight and a half mil, seven double O one alloy
which is a really durable and flexible alloy.
Now just on the vestibule space,
we can roll these doors up on the side here,
there's a tab here, and the same one features
on the other side.
And everything that I'm talking about here
is mirrored over the other side of the tent as well.
So I can roll this side up
to completely move it right back and out the way,
I can leave it half protected or at night,
zip it right closed to store my gear in here.
Now I've got about 65 centimetres out from the tent here.
So probably enough room for reasonable sized pack.
But you can put one on each side
if you've got two people.
Now I wanna show you the space inside the tent,
I've got a couple of hike mats
that I'm gonna stick in there.
And I'll show you how much room you've got.
So, squeezing inside the Zempire Zeus here,
I've now got two regular sized hike mats in here
and they fit pretty comfortably.
Both with their head end at the same end of the tent here.
And I've got a bit of room at each end
for a bit of gear as well, so,
you could keep your necessities
inside the tent, no problems.
Length-wise, you've got about 225 centimetres
from end to end, and the ends are quite upright.
So you've got quite a lot of usable space.
135 centimetres wide at the head end here.
And down at the foot end it's about 120 centimetres.
And it turns on where I'm sitting,
I've got about a metre of head space so,
I've got plenty of room and that head space extends
right to the side of the tent.
So two people could comfortably sit upright
inside this tent.
Now I'm 185 centimetres, if I lay down in here,
I have got plenty of room, both for my feet
and my head at each end of the tent.
Now looking around the features inside the Zeus here,
there's a little storage pocket for the mesh door here
just to keep it up and out of the way.
Moving around to the top of the head end here
there's a really big long pocket
for storing your gear in.
There's also a pocket at the foot end up here,
it's a much smaller pocket
but enough to keep a few more necessities and things in.
To the rear of me here is another entrance door
which looks out into that second vestibule
like I showed you on the side
that we just walked in through there.
And coming up to the top of the tent
looking up through all the mesh through the top here,
there is a little lantern hanging hook
to hang a lightweight light on.
One other thing I'll mention about the Zeus tent
is you can get the optional footprint
which would potentially replace the inner of the tent
for an ultra light set up so you can just have a groundsheet
with a single skin over the top.
Alternatively, it's always a good idea to use a footprint.
Because it gives the tent floor extra protection.
Makes it last a little bit longer.
In terms of using a fly first set up
and pitching the inner afterwards,
you probably could do it,
but its gonna be a little bit fiddly
because you gotta mess around with the poles
and the eyelets stacking on top of each other.
So, yes it's doable, but it's not a straightforward process.
Now, the Zeus comes in at about 2.8 kilos total.
You could get that down to about 2.6 kilos, probably,
trial weight, if you stripped all the pegs
and everything you don't need out.
Now you can grab these online at snowys.com.au
at our lowest prices every day.
They're super popular, grab yourself one.
I hope you found that useful.
Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time.
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