{"id":1443,"date":"2023-06-12T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:17:24","slug":"helinox-high-cot-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/helinox-high-cot-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Helinox High Cot One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m just back from a few days off road riding on Salisbury Plain. It’s been an age since I was last there – and when I was last there I was rough camping wherever I could find a space. Always happy to find a hedge, but most often I would find a place to pitch my little one man tunnel tent (green of course) out of sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But those days are long behind me and these days I like to get a bit more comfort when out and about. My best mate Stace had already made the switch from a down mat on the ground to a cot – and then to a hammock – switching as the environment demands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I visited him last year he was using his Helinox High Cot One as his main bed as he was mid-move and was split between two places. He waxed lyrical about how comfy it was… so of course I had to give it a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He combines his cot with an exped down mat<\/a>. It is super comfy and I couldn’t let him outdo me on the camping gear front could I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now I have one as well. I went for a super simple green High Cot One<\/a>. I went for the high version as it adds almost no weight and the extender bars fit within the standard cot bag – but importantly it makes getting up (and down) so much easier – especially for that 3am wee (mid-life comes to us all).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve taken mine a little further however and, just like Stace, I added an exped downmat<\/a> to the top and then wrap it with the Helinox fleece sheet<\/a> (which they call a ‘cot warmer’).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This creates an amazingly comfortable bed which is lovely and warm and soft. A far cry from a hedge in a field – but as one very wise camping gear supplier once said to me ‘any fool can be uncomfortable’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The finished bed is combined with a square sleeping bag<\/a> which can be used as a blanket or bag and\/or a rumple blanket <\/a>along with an exped<\/a> and nemo pillow.<\/a> I’m almost certainly going to change this to two nemo pillows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It fits beautifully in my Big Agnes Wyoming Trail 2<\/a> and adds very little in terms of pack size and weight to my setup. In fact my tent, sleeping cot, table, sheet… everything I need for my camp easily fits inside my trusty Ortlieb 89l Rack-Pack<\/a>, which means I can get to my camp site, drop my camp and be away very easily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ultimately I could have a camping set up that was lighter and took up less space and weight – but at some point comfort becomes more important than showing off how tough you are. I love my new set up and I’ll be writing about the Helinox One Hard Top Table very soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m just back from a few days off road riding on Salisbury Plain. It’s been an age since I was last there – and when I was last there I was rough camping wherever I could find a space. Always happy to find a hedge, but most often I would find a place to pitch … Continue reading “Helinox High Cot One”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-kit","category-reviews-gear"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}