I'm interested How many of us "Hot-Tent:

[Moondog55]

Of course I have begun to and sooner or later I'll crack my own perfect combination of stove and tent and I know of but haven't met a few deer hunters who do but how many here are persevering with small stoves in tents?

[roopass]

Stove in a tent!, didn't think that was possible, gee it would be toasty warm

[Moondog55]

Stove in a tent!, didn't think that was possible, gee it would be toasty warm

Very possible with care and very warm which is why I do it

[Lophophaps]

When the weather is fine I cook outside. If the weather is bad I cook inside the tent. As I have a single person tent, cooking needs to be done with care. My bigger tent has a flap in the floor sealed with velcro. Peel this back and there's grass and maximum clearance for flames. One day when the air temperature was hovering just above zero the tent was a toasty 25 degrees.

[madmacca]

My tent only has one door, and I'm terrified of it catching alight with no exit.

So I tend to stay in the vestibule, with the stove outside. Extend the arms out to stir and retrieve the pot, but the rest of me stays dry.

[Moondog55]

I'd better be more specific then
Hot-Tenting as in using a wood stove [ like last years cast iron Sheepherder stove] inside the tent for heating/cooking

[FootTrack]

Hey Moondog. You might find these stoves interesting. Some of them are pretty expensive but there are some interesting designs among them. I think "hot-tenting" is becoming more fashionable in the pack saddling scene in the US/Canada. http://www.outfitterssupply.com/Camping ... tments/13/

[ErichFromm]

Never have, but have always wanted to. Nice canvas tent with stove pipe out somewhere in the snow... Have seen the US and Canadian photos and it looks amazing. But how many places can you camp on the snow like that? And the weight of it all would be prohibitive....

[Moondog55]

Depends on the stove weight but in a sled you can carry much more weight than on your back and divided between 3 or 4 people it is quite doable; not with a cast iron stove tho.
It's how I dry out my ski gear at PV the last 5 seasons

[Nuts]

Gas? We tried the blackcat/ convertor stoves for a while m'dog, i'd be careful abt air flow or fluing the C0 from a gas stove. Cat stove gives an evening's burn from a Coleman canister or can be easily adapted to large LPG cylinders. Similar to just running a jetboil/reactor stove inside for heating I guess.

[Moondog55]

Not gas.
Wood fired
I'd love one of the Titanium woodburners but those are not affordable in my near future

[sambar358]

MD.....never been in a deer hunters camp in AU where they have a stove in the tent for either warmth or cooking. We're about mostly in the winter and the usual method of cooking is via an open fire and some sort of grill/hot plate and if it's wet or snowing.....well you just get wet or snowed-on. Most well-equipped deer hunters winter camps would also have a big poly tarp rigged for getting out of the weather or swagging-down under. Tents V swags would be about 50:50 with deer hunters......the hound hunters seem to prefer the rugged simplicity of a swag while us stalkers tend to prefer tents, insulated mats and nice cozy down bags ! Me.....when I'm solo backpacking for winter sambar I use a gas canister stove and sling a 4mX4m silnylon tarp for cooking under or getting out of the weather. I don't light a fire and if it's cold I just hit the bag.....even if it's only 6pm...or earlier ! Cheers

s358

[Moondog55]

Yet I've camped next to a few who do [ big 12 * 18 wall tent with a pot belly in it] and Chris from CT;s outdoors tells me has has sold a half dozen tent and stove packages

[sim1oz]

We've cooked in our tent to avoid mozzies or rain, but not really to warm the tent up. I could absolutely be persuaded to have a lightweight hot tent for snowcamping!! (MD, you know who to pass the hints to). I really liked the hot tents that Franco posted about yonks ago. The American teepees with lightweight collapsible stoves looked super sweet. It was just the price that dissuaded me.

[Moondog55]

Cost is almost always an issue with me as well.
I just scored a CO detector at Safeway for $20-, less than half price and a long-life battery included, not that I ever intend to go to sleep with the stove loaded up and damped down.
Still no progress on my own LW stove

[Neo]

Hey MD today i was wondering how you set up your hot tent. Do you have to pitch on ground level otherwise would it melt the snow underneath and end up as a dip? How deep is the snow usually at your spot when you arrive?

[Moondog55]

Snow depth is a variable
Sometimes none sometimes over 2 metres
Last couple of years I've has a small cast iron Sheepherder type stove because I could drop off prior to the road being closed, this year something lighter and more compact.
Which-ever stove tho I take precautions by bringing along a large 3mm thick aluminium plate bigger than the size of the stove base, some flat timber blocking and a scrap of CCF foam just in case the snow is deep. CCF insulates the snow from the heat of the stove bottom plus the air-gap formed by the wood battens and the 3mm plate is a pretty big heat sink anyway.
I've had to take down and re-erect tents many times during the season to accommodate snow melt.
If I can get the tent onto the ground I prefer to do that and dig out when needed as the deep snow keeps the wind off the tent
I haven't yet worked out where to put the stove and stove jacks in this seasons tent as I don't yet have the stove made.
The flattest area for camping up at Falls Creeks Horseyards camp site also happens to be the most exposed but close to the hut the ground is reasonably flat
Otherwise I stamp out an areas as flat as possible and set-up as per normal on snow and hope the thaws that come regularly are not too bad

[mikethepike]

This reminds me of thoughts I had 40 years ago while returning to Australia after 9 months in Europe when I drew up plans for sledging on the High Plains in winter with all my and my girlfriend's gear in a bath mounted on the sled and we would melt enough snow to loll about in the hot tub! Luxury HaHa! I think I got more realistic by the time the plane landed in Melbourne.

[Moondog55]

it's a great idea tho

[Neo]

Lots of modern bathtubs are plastic which would save on weight, then have to run the water on a loop through the stove!

[Moondog55]

Lots of modern bathtubs are plastic which would save on weight, then have to run the water on a loop through the stove!

HAH!!!
This is the New Age High Tek Bushwalk dot COM
A full sized Titanium bath on ski runners please