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Time to start hauling out The Good Stuff.
It's been snowing non-stop here for the past 72 hours, and we're up to about 7" now. Not a huge amount, but we're unlikelyto have above-freezing temps for the next six or so months.
I am hosting a film-shoot next week, so have had to do some prep-work for these Los Angeleno-types who are coming up here. Got me to thinking about this part of Mud.
I pulled out and set up my Arctic Oven tent. I have nothing to gain by this - no commercial connection whatsoever, but I AM prejudiced...this is one product, out of Alaska, that stands head and shoulders above ALL competition.
For extreme weather conditions, there is NO tent that is finer than an Arctic Oven. It is made in Fairbanks by Alaska Tent & Tarp (some of you may be familiar with their winter grill baffles). AT&Ts home page is www.alaskatent.com.
Mine is their medium-sized 8X8. They also make a pup tent, a 10X10, and on up from there. Mine has just over 5' height; the 10-foot has 6'8", I think. One of the key elements is the material out of which the inner tent is made - a polypropylene fabric the company claims is manufactured specifically for them. It is highly hygrophobic as well as breathable, which means that even in our temperatures all that nighttime breathing we can't avoid doing passes through the fabric and THEN freezes - on the outside of the material, between the inner and outer tent. So it neither rains nor snows inside the tent.
The outer tent is some high-performance stuff, but it's that inner tent that makes the great difference.
The tents also have breather snorkels as well as a chimney stack for a stove. I used to have...and will again some day...a nice lightweight woodstove. But I hate the ones I see on the market, with a top-opener. What you need in a woodstove is something that won't leak fumes, and that calls for a front-opener. So for now, I'm heatless... Arctic Oven also makes stoves, but they're really expensive....
Anyway, there's a free plug for the finest tent of all. My 8X8 weighs in at a little over 30 pounds, so it's nothing you want to backpack with. But I'll go out on a limb and state that no Arctic expedition in years, among expeditions that use tents, has used any tent other than an Arctic Oven.
It's been snowing non-stop here for the past 72 hours, and we're up to about 7" now. Not a huge amount, but we're unlikelyto have above-freezing temps for the next six or so months.
I am hosting a film-shoot next week, so have had to do some prep-work for these Los Angeleno-types who are coming up here. Got me to thinking about this part of Mud.
I pulled out and set up my Arctic Oven tent. I have nothing to gain by this - no commercial connection whatsoever, but I AM prejudiced...this is one product, out of Alaska, that stands head and shoulders above ALL competition.
For extreme weather conditions, there is NO tent that is finer than an Arctic Oven. It is made in Fairbanks by Alaska Tent & Tarp (some of you may be familiar with their winter grill baffles). AT&Ts home page is www.alaskatent.com.
Mine is their medium-sized 8X8. They also make a pup tent, a 10X10, and on up from there. Mine has just over 5' height; the 10-foot has 6'8", I think. One of the key elements is the material out of which the inner tent is made - a polypropylene fabric the company claims is manufactured specifically for them. It is highly hygrophobic as well as breathable, which means that even in our temperatures all that nighttime breathing we can't avoid doing passes through the fabric and THEN freezes - on the outside of the material, between the inner and outer tent. So it neither rains nor snows inside the tent.
The outer tent is some high-performance stuff, but it's that inner tent that makes the great difference.
The tents also have breather snorkels as well as a chimney stack for a stove. I used to have...and will again some day...a nice lightweight woodstove. But I hate the ones I see on the market, with a top-opener. What you need in a woodstove is something that won't leak fumes, and that calls for a front-opener. So for now, I'm heatless... Arctic Oven also makes stoves, but they're really expensive....
Anyway, there's a free plug for the finest tent of all. My 8X8 weighs in at a little over 30 pounds, so it's nothing you want to backpack with. But I'll go out on a limb and state that no Arctic expedition in years, among expeditions that use tents, has used any tent other than an Arctic Oven.
