This is the Heimplanet Backdoor 4-Season, it’s the new four season version of the tent, built with a series of upgrades to make it ideally suited to use year-round, even in seriously inclement weather.
The Backdoor 4-Season has a bright, neon-red frame for better visibility in snow and other low-visibility conditions, and it comes with the stakes, guy lines, a repair kit, pump adapter, gear loft, and compression sack.
This is the Heimplanet Backdoor, it’s the new 4-Season version of the tent, built with a series of upgrades to make it ideally suited to use year-round, even in seriously inclement weather.
History Speedrun: Heimplanet
Heimplanet all began when co-founders Stefan Clauss and Stefan Schulze Dieckhoff went on a surf trip in the early 2000s along the Portuguese coast. They reached a campsite late one evening in the dark and the rain and they began joking about a “tent from the future” that would set itself up automatically – a little like those famous Nikes worn by Marty McFly in Back to the Future.
In 2008 Clauss and Dieckhoff decided to make this tent a reality, and they registered Heimplanet Entwicklungs GmbH in Hamburg in 2010.
The Cave, their first tent design, debuted at ISPO Munich in early-2011 as a BrandNew finalist in the Summer Hardware category. It weighed just under 5 kgs (11 lbs), was priced at €499, and was scheduled to reach customers that April.
The frame of the Cave used five double-walled chambers of polyester and thermoplastic polyurethane film. They filled as one circuit from a single valve and could then be sealed off from one another, so a puncture in one chamber wouldn’t bring the tent down. It was a clever design feature that they patented.
More tent designs followed, from the one-to-two-person Fistral to the Mavericks expedition shelter with two meters (6.6 feet) of headroom. From 2015 Audi sold a Heimplanet tent that attached to the tailgates of the Q3, Q5, and Q7. Bags came too, first the Monolith packs, later the Motion and Transit bag lines.
On Antarctica’s Priestley Glacier, a New Zealand team needed to shelter a radar that could not see through metal poles. Heimplanet rebuilt a Mavericks with every metal part replaced by custom plastic. It worked perfectly, and as an added bonus, the tent was more than capable of handling the high winds the region is known for.
Compared with the regular Backdoor tent, the 4-Season model uses a more enclosed 40D ripstop nylon inner tent designed to retain warmth and block out more wind in cold and snowy conditions. It has two entrances, adjustable ventilation, closable upper vents, internal storage pockets, and an overhead gear loft.
Today, Heimplanet is the world leader in high-end inflatable tent design and manufacturing, their tent designs have been used on countless expeditions, and they’ve become a common sight at remote campsites.
The Heimplanet Backdoor 4-Season Tent
The Heimplanet Backdoor 4-Season is a four-person inflatable tent that uses the company’s highly-regarded Inflatable Diamond Grid air frame – instead of conventional tent poles. Once the tent has been assembled for the first time, the flysheet, inner tent, and frame can all stay connected, so setup is largely a matter of unrolling it and inflating the structure.
Heimplanet says inflation takes under a minute with a normal electric air pump, and the air chambers can be isolated individually, so a puncture in one section doesn’t bring the whole tent down. Punctures are said to be rare, and much like with a car or motorcycle tire, they can be quickly patched.
Compared with the regular Backdoor tent, the 4-Season model uses a more enclosed 40D ripstop nylon inner tent designed to retain warmth and block out more wind in cold and snowy conditions. It has two entrances, adjustable ventilation, closable upper vents, internal storage pockets, and an overhead gear loft.
The bright red inflatable frame is deliberately easy to spot in snow, rain, or in any conditions with poor visibility. The flysheet is made from 40D polyester with silicone and polyurethane coatings and has a 3,000 mm hydrostatic-head rating. The 70D nylon floor is rated to 5,000 mm.
The Backdoor 4-Season weighs in at just 6.1 kgs (13.5 lbs) and packs down to 51 × 26 × 21 cm (20.1 × 10.2 × 8.3 inches). It offers 5.8 m² (62.4 sq ft) of sleeping area, with a total footprint of 9.0 m² (96.9 sq ft). Interior height is 125 cm (49.2 in), while overall height is 154 cm (60.6 in).
The Backdoor 4-Season has a bright, neon-red frame for better visibility in snow and other low-visibility conditions, and it comes with the stakes, guy lines, a repair kit, pump adapter, gear loft, and compression sack.
The inflatable frame uses TPU air bladders inside heavy-duty polyester sleeves, with extra reinforcement at high-wear areas near the ground. It comes with stakes, guy lines, a repair kit, pump adapter, gear loft, and compression sack – the pump is sold separately as many people already own one and don’t necessarily want to pay for two.
The Heimplanet Backdoor 4-Season is now available to buy here on the official Heimplanet store with a 30-day 100% satisfaction guarantee and lifetime support for manufacturing or material defects.
Images courtesy of Heimplanet
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