Do you even hot tent bro?

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Starting last winter I got pretty interested in hot tenting (i.e. a tent with a wood stove in it so you can go camping in the dead of winter. What did YOU think it was?) I think its mainly the winter Covid doldrums and just needing to get out of the house and do something.
Well that feeling is back with a vengeance this winter so yesterday I took the plunge and ordered a 16' bell tent and cylinder stove with a water heater on the side. Happy early birthday to me. It should all arrive next week so I'm gonna test it out in the yard and then head for the frozen winter Wonderland a few weekends in February. Going first with a buddy to test everything out and then maybe with the family after that.
Plans include cast iron pans, bacon, chopping wood, hiking, and general relaxation.

I've really come to appreciate the value of having something to look forward to, and this is a pretty big one for me. Woop woop.
 
you can totally camp in the dead of winter with a non-heated tent too, but that does sound fun
 
I'm not much of a camper, but we just bought a little shack, on an island, out on Virginia's eastern shore. It will be about as close to camping as I get. I'll be spending quite a few weekends there fixing the place up.
 
Digging and sleeping in a lot of fox holes in the USAF really filled that vacant spot for me. Of course talking with some people about camping the other day; they went out and bought a 30 foot motor home. I just laughed and thought really? Do what you like but that ain’t camping. That’s trailer-parking.
 
I've hot tented in the summer. There were days it would be 90 out and inside the tent it would be 100. Good for Coke and snow cone sales. Get up in the air where the high wire or trapeze were and it could hit 120. Added a whole extra level of danger. We'd pull the rain caps off the poles to create a chimney and pull the sidewalls up to try to create circulation but it never really helped much. I mean there's not much difference between 115 and 120. No great memories of hot tenting.
 
Do it on a lake around a little hole in the ice. That makes sense. Just sleeping outside when it's cold around a woodstove, breathing in soot makes less sense.
 
15 degree bag, some hot water in bottles & one of these is my cold tent camping solution....if that isn't enough, I a fine with not camping.
Heater is run sporadically and never unattended or while sleeping.
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yabba said:
you can totally camp in the dead of winter with a non-heated tent too, but that does sound fun
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yep I've camped in as low as single digits and got snowed in for three days and spent it all in the back of my 92 Nissan truck which had a camper shellmultiple times I've gone in temps in the teens overnight.

This dude does hot tent camping all the time
 
DdBob said:
yep I've camped in as low as single digits and got snowed in for three days and spent it all in the back of my 92 Nissan truck which had a camper shellmultiple times I've gone in temps in the teens overnight.

This dude does hot tent camping all the time
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I used to do fairly regular winter tent camping trips in WI (and a few weeks in Alberta as well). A good warm sleeping bag, a full length pad that's made for winter camping, and the right clothing (and plenty of high fat food) and it's totally fine/fun in a tent. Snow is also a good insulator/building material; building a wall around the tent for a windbreak helps if its windy
 
DdBob said:
yep I've camped in as low as single digits and got snowed in for three days and spent it all in the back of my 92 Nissan truck which had a camper shellmultiple times I've gone in temps in the teens overnight.

This dude does hot tent camping all the time
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I've seen a bunch of that dude's videos, as well as a few others.
And sure, you don't NEED a wood stove if you have a zero degree sleeping bag yadda yadda, but being cozy inside a little envelope of fabric while it's frigid outside is kinda the point. I'm not just trying so survive the night, I'm trying to have a nice time here.
 
2manband said:
I've seen a bunch of that dude's videos, as well as a few others.
And sure, you don't NEED a wood stove if you have a zero degree sleeping bag yadda yadda, but being cozy inside a little envelope of fabric while it's frigid outside is kinda the point. I'm not just trying so survive the night, I'm trying to have a nice time here.
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Oh yeah I can totally understand it but I’d think it would need to be a three nighter at least to make it worth the effort……or you live someplace where it doesn’t get above freezing. Down here in the mountains it can get teens but then daytime might be pushing 50 or if there’s a system going through might be mid thirties. The deserts might go upper 20s and then hit mid 60s. Northern Az and central eastern mountains are a whole different thing
But yeah upper Midwest I can totally see one
 
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