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Originally Posted by DoubleF
With my existing gear, I am not actively considering winter camping. Not designed for that at all. I was thinking that with a tent that has the stove option, it opens up the option to do winter camping along with reducing misery relating to inclement weather for spring/summer/fall camping. I normally wouldn't use the stove, but like the idea of potentially having a stove option for additional comfort and to ensure a camping trip doesn't get derailed. Thinking if we had gear that could handle a mild winter type camping, the other seasons would be a breeze.
Do you have a recommendation of what you were using for winter camping? Budget dependent, but I was thinking of maybe a higher quality tent with camping cots vs 6 person tent and mattresses.
My current 6 person tent is a design from like 10-20 years ago and completely ####e. The only way to redeem it is buy an extremely large tarp that can cover the whole thing to make it work, but then it'll look like something out of a tent city, and the tent did poorly last weekend and sagged/twisted a lot when a smaller tarp was pulled taut but not tight against it.
However, looking at 6 person tents, I'm already looking around the $400+ ish range, so I was thinking whether to get something better for a few hundred bucks more. That's how I ended up running into these stove inflatable and yurt tent rabbit hole. Also seemed more luxurious than a typical tent plus if the reviews said people were using them for winter, then other seasons is a total breeze.
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My context for winter camping was cross country skiing and backpacking with two people so no real recommendations on the 6 person tent side. I took an older MEC 4 person dome tent and added a stove jack to i and used it for two people. I had a seek outside medium stove. I got rid of it a few years ago as I didn’t really use it much after my first few trips.
Friends of friends had a massive yurt style tent 8 person or so that we used a few times but I don’t know the brand of it and they dealt with all the stove set up stuff and this was car camping based. They had it as a hunting tent. It sounds like this is kinda what you are looking for.
For your application though I’d be looking tent heater.
