I was first introduced to the Pomoly Chalet 70 Pro through the YouTube channel TA Outdoors, where the channels host Mike demonstrated using it with a wood stove in his own woodland. For a long time I've been really interested in the idea of using a hot tent, to extend the camping season deep into the colder months, and I also like the idea of using the stove to cook whilst inside the shelter of the tent (especially when in poor weather conditions etc.). After seeing Mike's videos of the Pomoly I started to watch some others on YouTube using the tent, and I even found some up in Alaska which I think was a real testimony to the tent's ability to keep it's inhabitants warm and stand up to harsher weather conditions. So around January, I decided to buy my own and try it for myself, having borrowed a tent stove from a friend so that I could try out hot tenting!  When I bought the tent, I hoped that I would be able to take it out for some cold weather camping within the first...

This year (2025) our first camping trip, and therefore the official 'start of the season' came later than usual, and much later than I would have liked! With perfectly good reason though - the start of this year (and the end of the last) had been completely preoccupied with buying our first home. So instead of starting out with some local trips in unpredictable weather (as early spring in the UK can be so hit or miss) our first trip was at the start of May, in Eryri (or Snowdonia National Park), near Llanbedr. We'd stumbled across this site, Rhaeadr Nantcol Waterfalls, when we saw it in a video on social media, which showed the river Cwmnantcol (attempt to pronounce at your own risk) flowing straight through it, dissecting the green fields which were scattered (not rammed - thankfully) with tents and campers. As a child, my first camping trips that I can remember were in north Wales, on the shores of Bala lake, so it's an area that's fairly familiar to me. The video...