undercling-mike wrote:A ground up DIY tent build of the type you're considering certainly is a big undertaking. Anyway, some options that come to mind: if you're getting crazt shipping quotes from the US it might be worth looking at parcel forwarding services like Shipito, would certainly be less than US$400 to ship.
Have you considered something like this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/authent ... 840a1e0aaa
Moondog55 wrote:100kph is a lot of wind but not for this particular area
I quite often get picked up and blown off my feet in this area, if there were cliffs or steep gullies I'd be roped up.
As far as I am aware the Scott Antarctic tents used 4 corner poles because they are much faster to erect not because that configuration is necessarily stronger.
Badly designed buildings suffer damage at 100klicks, well constructed and built to code they should handle 160 without trouble. 160 is the design windspeed for my area
Like all things it's a compromise between weight and strength, just like a racing yacht.
Something will get built or modified and if it doesn't cope that is why I always have a back-up in a mountaineering tent.
Moondog55 wrote:Stu if I can get the money together I should get one of those small self contained weather stations that plug into a smart phone or small pad but how would I take movies at the same time? Not really a Luddite but I can't keep up with the technology it moves so fast.
Have you ever camped at Pretty Valley? It's a wind funnel area at the horseyards, move a half klick and the wind drops to half speed or less and at the hut the same but from a different direction. There are several very well sheltered spots but suffer from very heavy snow drop as they are overhung with big trees, there really isn't much of a happy medium if I want to ski most days
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