Tents

**Sourdough** · 01-17-2008, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

Hopeak. Thanks for the invite and I had my bags all packed until you told me the outhouse didn't have a door and it's -37!!!!!!! I guess I'll have to unpack them now.

Rick, You know the saying, "Get er' Done". It is 13 above just now. WildWomen is correct, Blue board, also called Dow Board, it comes in pink or blue. It really is magic. Rick, If your not man enough, (just kidding) Just send a good women, or a bad women.

**canid** · 01-17-2008, 03:15 PM

i once lived in a place with an outhouse tha had a curtain in place of a door and faced into the prevailing wind. fun stuff on a stormy night with driving rain just above freezing

**Rick** · 01-17-2008, 03:56 PM

Well, you can imagine what would be blue if I had to use it at -37. My grandfather had an outdoor privy (we were a little classier than just an outhouse. Moon in the door and all). I can remember carrying the lantern out there to help warm things up a bit and it wasn't anywhere near that cold.

**Beo** · 01-22-2008, 10:22 AM

I always use a diamond shelter, 10x10 piece of oil cloth, waterproof and warm with a leaf floor and drop cloth. Put the fire about 3 feet from the entrance or opening, behind or to one side of diamond shelter is a lean-to, build this second and around your tent. Sleeps two comfortably.

**RBB** · 01-22-2008, 02:06 PM

Been reading the "bug out, don't bug out" posts with interest. Not sure it wouldn't be a good idea to stay put in many warmer locales, but the further north you get - the more you have to wonder how livable your home would be without electricity, gas or fuel oil. I know ours wouldn't be, without a lot of work.

We do have a 16' X 20' bunkhouse out back - wood heating stove, wood cook stove, and enough Hudson's Bay blankets to keep us warm.

Hopeak's posts concerning his outhouse also makes me glad I've never let the Mrs talk me into getting rid of "that eyesore." If none of your indoor plumbing works, having a "little house" is mighty handy.

Using other people's dwellings for shelter just wouldn't work real well here in winter. Maybe you could use their garden shed - if you could figure a way to heat it. We have a 11' X 14' shack up north, and even with the stove roaring - it takes about half a day to warm the place up, in winter, and after three or four days, you might be able to shed your boots. Trying to warm up an average sized house would take far longer - if it would be possible at all.

Other posts concerning debris shelters and the like - there was a reason Native American's lodges were small - easier to heat. Around here, the diamond fly would work for three seasons. In winter it is not a viable alternative. Coldest I've seen it here is minus 58. While that doesn't happen often, minus 20 is a common occurrence in winter, and that would make for some serious difficulty without good shelter.

Loosing the use of a large well heated home during winter would be disastrous for many. Can a human being put up with living outdoors? Yes, but it sure helps to be acclimatized. One year, the Mrs and I moved from Seattle back here in January. I never did feel warm the rest of the winter. In other words, if you spent a year in a tent, you'd weather it much better than to start tenting February 1.

**Smok** · 01-23-2008, 01:41 AM

The yurt is insulated and came out of Mongolia were it is very cold. The tepee has designs that make it far warmer but you need to look in to this more if you plan on bugging out