Wall tent

[ghosthunter]

Oh ya we have been tent camping for years. We got cots and the whole works. Just never had a white wall tent. My current tent is just as big but not white canvas. No stove jack in it. But has been great over the years. Has external frame and sew in floor. So I am dragging my feet over "Need" and "Want".

He has never had his own tent and now retired marked this off his bucket list.

We have two other white wall tents in our elk camp. So I am thinking on pulling the trigger.

[KFhunter]

Some folks have told me clear plastic works best for snow.

a new tarp sheds snow just about as good, but let it get a year or two weathered and it won't shed as good

[ghosthunter]

Yeah I think the fiber comes to the surface and catches the snow.

Here is the tent I have been using for 10 years.

[follow maggie]

I used a tent just like that for years ghosthunter.  I loved that tent. It got torn by the wind in the Colockum a few years ago and I was finally able to replace it with a 12x14 from Daveis Tent & Awning this year. I'm looking forward to getting the new one dialed in.

[RG]

In addition to the basic wall tent we added a 10 X 20 Kenai tent from Montana Canvas.  We've had it since about 1992, it's made of their Relite fabric and it works great.  If you had it in rainy weather the door would drain onto the floor but that's probably only happened 3 or 4 times since I've owned it.  If it snows I knock the snow off before opening the door but the roof is so steep nothing stays on it anyway.  In the relite it weighs the same as our smaller canvas wall tent.  We always joke about it being a 3 room tent, kitchen, bedroom, and living room around the stove.

[ghosthunter]

Very nice.
We use a costco car port for our cook shack rec hall. And we have a additional frame we can add to the end and move the cook shack in there for the big camps.

Here's the cook shack with my tent on end.

[ghosthunter]

I used a tent just like that for years ghosthunter.  I loved that tent. It got torn by the wind in the Colockum a few years ago and I was finally able to replace it with a 12x14 from Daveis Tent & Awning this year. I'm looking forward to getting the new one dialed in.

Yes if you were to buy that tent today ,you pay over 600.00.
I bought it years ago for 350.00.

They are very good tents except real high winds  pushes the frame around. I rain fly it every time and I have never gotten wet in some real down pours.

Heavy snow would crush it unless to had a steep fly to shed snow.

[ghosthunter]

30 years ago my wife and I bought this tent. With all this tent talk lately I pulled it out and set it up first time in about 10 years.

I had it set up on a ridge in Republic about 15 years ago and a heavy rain hit camp while we were out. So much water was on the tent at the side center loop it crushed the span pole on the right side.
I put a splint on it and used that way for the next 5 years.
Today I went and got some conduit and made a new span.

I hosed it down and it is amazing how water repellent the canvas top still is. Water just ran off.

It's missing one stake loop and the bug screen zipper ,slider is missing. I had it re zippered years ago.

It is a Black Sheep, canvas roof, 9x12 , heavy vinyl walls, and a tarp like sew in floor.

Just goes to show if you take care of them can last a life time.

This is the camp guest house and family loaner.

[follow maggie]

They do last if you take care of them. Mine was a hand me down from my parents. It was made in the early 70s. I always had a fly over it, put it away dry and clean and it lasts me until 2009

[CplRaines]