
Helikon-Tex Swagman is not your ordinary blanket. It is a multifunction tool, applicable wherever a warm cover is required. Use it as a poncho liner, emergency sleeping bag, wrap in it as if it was a blanket, line your hammock with it, or just wear it as a stand-alone warm coat/poncho. It is made of thin Nylon fabric and filled with best insulating material, the Climashield Apex.
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Once upon a time, the trappers, the trekkers and even the soldiers did not carry sleeping bags. They carried blanket rolls. Up until very recently, wool was the best blanket material. Then, still several decades ago, Nylon fabrics came into being. During the Vietnam War, there appeared a new blanket – the Poncho Liner. Ultra lightweight blanket doubling as warming liner for rain-protection poncho.
In Australian slang ‘swagman’ means a travelling workman. Something like American cowboy or a trapper, occasionally on a lookout for a work on the Frontier. The difference was, the Australian swagman was traveling on foot and carried all his belongings in a bed roll. With the Swagman Roll we salute these intrepid men, trembling on chilly mornings in their moist blankets – but with our Swagman Roll you’ll never have to emulate that particular part of their lifestyle.
Features:
- Keeps the user warm even when wet
- Climashield Apex insulation (67 g/m2)
- Lightweight and compressible
- Full YKK zipper
- Compression pack included
- Warm hood
- Integral transport pocket
- Zippered front pocket
- USGI poncho compatible
- Can be used as: emergency jacket, sleeping bag or sleeping bag liner, blanket, hammock liner (quilt) etc.
- Lightweight, non soaking, easy to transport
- Ideally fits the Helikon-Tex BOB backpack
- Co-designed with Survivaltech.pl survival experts
Helikon-Tex Bushcraft Line
Designed for hikers, hunters, wildlife enthusiasts, photographers, bushcrafters and anyone who appreciates a solid, rugged and well-thought out gear and garments that are useful in the wild and withstand wear, tear and campfires better than high-tech garments.
YKK zippers
Product of worldwide know Japanese company YKK Group. Their zippers have become a synonym for quality, durability and functionality. Most often they are used in textile industry of high quality, e.g. in alpine equipment and professional garments.
Climashield Apex
is the lightest weight and most thermally efficient continuous filament insulation on the market today. Developed from a culmination of over 25 years of manufacturing experience, this innovative insulation boasts 75 percent more loft and 30 percent more thermal efficiency than any other continuous filament insulation. Equipped with a proprietary surface encapsulation technology, Climashield Apex offers excellent warmth, even when wet, without obstructing moisture transfer from the body.
WindPack Nylon material
Fabric woven from nylon. It is made with canvas weave and reinforced with ripstop grid. The material is treated with DWR waterproofing DuPont Teflon coating. Very breathable and moisture wicking. Ultralight, packable and windproof.
PenCott digital camouflage
PenCott GreenZone, Badlands, Sandstorm and Snowdrift are digital camouflages produced by the UK company Hyde Definition. Pattern elements achieve a three dimensional effect; the illusion of depth. Digital camo means non-curvy transitions between tones (squares and rectangular shapes). Camouflage is multi-fractal, meaning it carries a micro-pattern (close range), a macro-pattern (long range), and an innovative midi-pattern (middle range). This ensures that the PenCott continues to conceal the user whether he is few meters away or 400.
Technical Specifications
Material | Climashield Apex insulation (67 g/m2), Nylon ripstop outer layer |
Size | 145 x 200 cm |
Weight | 820 g |
Reviews
30.05. 2024
Super večnamenski produkt
Zelo uporaben na kampiranju, za posedanje ob ognju, za hladne noči, ko je osnovna spalka premalo, ali samo kot deka za v avto.
30.05. 2023
Kvalitetni izdelek
Pončo je toplo, dobro narejeno.
Sem ni preveril uporabo pončo kot spalne vreče ampak mislim za visokega oz. velikega človeka, pončo je premalo kot spalna vreča.
10.02. 2023
Odlicen izdelek ????
Odlicen pripomocek pri mojem terenskem delu. Kvalitetna izdelava ????
21.10. 2022
As versatile as it gets
The swagman roll is one of the things you get for one use case and then you find more and more situations where you don't want to miss it.
Make your poncho ready for cold environments or turn it into a sleeping system. Protect yourself from the cold when wandering or in camp. Use it to shield yourself from the cold while in a hammock. That's just the obvious usecases. But you can also use it as a multifunction blanket, you can sit on it, you can wrap more than one person in camp, you can use it as a light-proof optical shielding (think of the camo options), use it a as a sleeping bag in summer or in a hut, as an emergency bag in a car and many more.
You will definitely want one of these and carry it with you. You will discover new uses and you will be happy that you brought it.
03.12. 2018
must have!
Good quality, very warm, easy to put on, don´t know, how resistant the material is against flying sparks if you sit aroung a nice fire.... have bouhgt allready a second one and this thing is absolutely recommendable...