Do you even hot tent bro?

Theodore said:
I get a hot taint from sitting all day. *spits*

Last time I had a tent set up a groundhog (I believe) ripped a hole in it. :mad:
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Perhaps you could go camping with 2 manand save him some money….bring your tent with the hole in it and all he needs then is the stove
 
I've done a tent in the winter without a heater, but I don't know if I could do it now. My circulation is so bad, particularly in the thumb I had reattached, that I think I'd lose a few digits.
 
Good luck, hope you are a happy camper.

Also, how do you get the stakes into the ground?
 
DdBob said:
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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We've had high temps below freezing about 18 of the last 20 days.
3 nighter would be nice, but I'll prolly be limited to 2 because of the kids' attention spans. That's also the reason I chose a teepee style with one single center pole (and one door pole.) Supposedly it goes up/down in about 20 mins. I dont need to be assembling a complex ass wall tent in a snow squall.

Anywho the wood stove part was delivered today. It's a nice size, not particularly lightweight but it all nests together and I could carry it solo for maybe a half mile or so if I had too. The tent is heavy too....this definitely isn't a backpacking setup.

I put the stove together and fired it up to burn off the oil and VOCs and whatnot. Works great so I cooked pasta on it for dinner. The side water tank seems to work great too.
Can't wait for the tent. I'll prolly put it up in the backyard for a weekend before the first trip.
 
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Bob411 said:
Also, how do you get the stakes into the ground?
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I've only been winter tent camping with lots of snow on the ground, and we either used specialized snow stakes or large sticks when we didn't have enough stakes (both of which are driven into or buried in compacted snow, not the ground - the snow melts a tiny bit when you pack in down and then refreezes and holds things well, but regular tent stakes would be too skinny)
 
I was expecting a different source of heat for said hot tenting.
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2manband said:
We've had high temps below freezing about 18 of the last 20 days.
3 nighter would be nice, but I'll prolly be limited to 2 because of the kids' attention spans. That's also the reason I chose a teepee style with one single center pole (and one door pole.) Supposedly it goes up/down in about 20 mins. I dont need to be assembling a complex ass wall tent in a snow squall.

Anywho the wood stove part was delivered today. It's a nice size, not particularly lightweight but it all nests together and I could carry it solo for maybe a half mile or so if I had too. The tent is heavy too....this definitely isn't a backpacking setup.

I put the stove together and fired it up to burn off the oil and VOCs and whatnot. Works great so I cooked pasta on it for dinner. The side water tank seems to work great too.
Can't wait for the tent. I'll prolly put it up in the backyard for a weekend before the first trip.
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sounds nice!
 
Well I got the tent last weekend and set everything up in the backyard. It worked great. It gets nice and warm at 12F. Even too warm if you get overzealous with your wood. And haven't we all?

I had some evening meetings this week so after my 10:embarrassed:0 Zoom call tomorrow I'm throwing all my shit in the truck and headed out to a nice piney spot near a babbling brook in the local state forest to drink bourbon, grill steaks and wear flannel.

I'm bringing along a little Ruger single six because it's technically still small game season but I don't particularly want to shoot or clean or eat any furry little woodland critters this trip. It's mainly just an excuse to go rambling around the woods and work up an appetite.

The only complication is that it's gonna be almost 60 on Saturday and all the snow has melted in the last week. Because why the fuck wouldn't it do that for my long awaited winter camping trip. Oh well, I'm not gonna complain about warm weather in February.
 
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2manband said:
Well I got the tent last weekend and set everything up in the backyard. It worked great. It gets nice and warm at 12F. Even too warm if you get overzealous with your wood. And haven't we all?

I had some evening meetings this week so after my 10:embarrassed:0 Zoom call tomorrow I'm throwing all my shit in the truck and headed out to a nice piney spot near a babbling brook in the local state forest to drink bourbon, grill steaks and wear flannel.

I'm bringing along a little Ruger single six because it's technically still small game season but I don't particularly want to shoot or clean or eat any furry little woodland critters this trip. It's mainly just an excuse to go rambling around the woods and work up an appetite.

The only complication is that it's gonna be almost 60 on Saturday and all the snow has melted in the last week. Because why the fuck wouldn't it do that for my long awaited winter camping trip. Oh well, I'm not gonna complain about warm weather in February.
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There's a few hobo camps around my work and the newest one is a giant 10 foot tall teepee with a "yard" full of modern art sculpture the person built out of random scrap metal. It's suppossed to be 82 on Monday so he will have a hot tent expiernce too.
 
So the trip didn't work out so great:
All the roads in our area have been snow free for weeks. There's no snow on the grass.

But the road into our camping spot was a solid 2" thick sheet of ice for the last mile or so. I made it there on Friday without too much issue. It was a warm day and the ice was getting soft on the surface so traction was ok-ish. Set everything up, had a good time hanging out with 2 friends.

Saturday morning I walked up to the truck to get a few things and it was frozen solid. I could barely stay vertical.

We ate breakfast and decided to leave that afternoon when it warmed up again. So we had a short hike and started packing up. In that time another truck slid off the road into a ditch, nearly hitting our parked cars. We pushed him out and tied his Silverado to a tree with a tow strap because he was sliding sideways just sitting still.
In the meantime 2 angry Karens arrived in a fucking corolla and were mad that we had a strap across the road. They intended to continue on and drive up and over the mountain where they would presumably die. We vehemently discouraged them from that undertaking whereupon they tried to proceed and promptly slid off the road into another ditch. We pushed them out too and got them turned around and out of our lives forever.

So we packed everything up hastily, which still took an hour. Meanwhile, first dude is still tied to a tree by the trailer hitch. He shuffled around impatiently and fell on the ice twice during that time. He was about 70. He did have a good story though about passing a Subaru with a flat tire, missing bumper, and Jersey plates on the way in. He offered to help change Jersey guys tire but Jersey guy declined, preferring to keep driving and GTFO of the ice. Interestingly, now-tied-to-the-tree-guy decided to keep going anyway.

So finally we got all packed up, carefully planning our turn around and exit strategy. That plan worked OK. We untied tied-to-a-tree guy, he slid across into the spot we just vacated, pulled out, and we all commenced ice road trucking in a slow well spaced convoy. In the 1 mile or so back to clear roads we turned around 2 other SUVs, pushed out a Tacoma and found the spot where NJ Subaru guy had his undoing.

Oh and as a side note I have a swell come along winch but I left it at home. So does my camping buddy, and so did he.

So after my sphincter biting a hole in the driver's seat for about 2 hours, looking at a steep hillside and frigid creek from a frictionless single lane road with no guard rails, we made it out in one piece.

Covid be damned, we stopped at the nearest backwoods redneck ass dive bar for a beer and some lunch. Tied to the tree guy bought a round of beers.

1/10, not recommended. The hot tenting was quite nice actually but next time I'm gonna need a local road report.
 
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2manband said:
So the trip didn't work out so great:
All the roads in our area have been snow free for weeks. There's no snow on the grass.

But the road into our camping spot was a solid 2" thick sheet of ice for the last mile or so. I made it there on Friday without too much issue. It was a warm day and the ice was getting soft on the surface so traction was ok-ish. Set everything up, had a good time hanging out with 2 friends.

Saturday morning I walked up to the truck to get a few things and it was frozen solid. I could barely stay vertical.

We ate breakfast and decided to leave that afternoon when it warmed up again. So we had a short hike and started packing up. In that time another truck slid off the road into a ditch, nearly hitting our parked cars. We pushed him out and tied his Silverado to a tree with a tow strap because he was sliding sideways just sitting still.
In the meantime 2 angry Karens arrived in a fucking corolla and were mad that we had a strap across the road. They intended to continue on and drive up and over the mountain where they would presumably die. We vehemently discouraged them from that undertaking whereupon they tried to proceed and promptly slid off the road into another ditch. We pushed them out too and got them turned around and out of our lives forever.

So we packed everything up hastily, which still took an hour. Meanwhile, first dude is still tied to a tree by the trailer hitch. He shuffled around impatiently and fell on the ice twice during that time. He was about 70. He did have a good story though about passing a Subaru with a flat tire, missing bumper, and Jersey plates on the way in. He offered to help change Jersey guys tire but Jersey guy declined, preferring to keep driving and GTFO of the ice. Interestingly, now-tied-to-the-tree-guy decided to keep going anyway.

So finally we got all packed up, carefully planning our turn around and exit strategy. That plan worked OK. We untied tied-to-a-tree guy, he slid across into the spot we just vacated, pulled out, and we all commenced ice road trucking in a slow well spaced convoy. In the 1 mile or so back to clear roads we turned around 2 other SUVs, pushed out a Tacoma and found the spot where NJ Subaru guy had his undoing.

Oh and as a side note I have a swell come along winch but I left it at home. So does my camping buddy, and so did he.

So after my sphincter biting a hole in the driver's seat for about 2 hours, looking at a steep hillside and frigid creek from a frictionless road with no guard rails, we made it out in one piece.

Covid be damned, we stopped at the nearest backwoods redneck ass dive bar for a beer and some lunch. Tied to the tree guy bought a round of beers.

1/10, not recommended. The hot tenting was quite nice actually but next time I'm gonna need a local road report.
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Well I set the tent up in the backyard so I can clean it and dry it out really well before packing it away for a while.
Next weekend we'll probably do a family day trip to the aquarium instead of truck-curling.

So yeah, good first season of hot tenting.
 
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