NZ HUNTER MAGAZINE Testfire
Founded in 2002 by Cam Brensinger in his senior year at Rhode Island School of Design, the brand has been at for forefront of innovation and technology ever since. Nemo Equipment is distributed in New Zealand by Mountain Adventure in Christchurch, who have a huge range of great brands - including the likes of La Sportiva, Fenix and Leki.
Coming from a collaboration between Nemo Equipment and FirstLite (a brand known well in NZ via PointsSouth) the Tracker 2p is based on a revisited and repurposed Nemo Hornet, one of their best-known tents. The tracker is also available as a single person tent, shaving 200 grams off the total weight.
My first impressions of the tent stayed the course after a week of use in the Clarence River highcountry chasing stags.the Y at the head-end for maximum space and tapers to the long end of the Y, the single pole, at the feet. Here it uses pegs to brace the fabric at that end which is why it is described as ‘semi-freestanding’. Nemo also utilise flybars (plastic spreader bars along the single part of the pole) to maximise headroom, which improved on the internal volume. See the image on the next page to see how the single pole and flybars work. It helped that you could tie the inner tent wall to the fly in the vestibule with a short cord and clip to further pull the inner away from occupants.
