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From: David Lowry
Date: 12/5/00
Time: 1:49:53 PM
Remote Name: 192.101.100.146
Cool, Alaska Tent and Tarp- Arctic Oven, used by almost every mushing outfitter I've looked at. Thats the heavy double wall tent with a floor. The other is made by the founder of Mountainsmith. After he sold Mountainsmith, he retained the rights to make his tipi's. They're at kifaru.net They are basically floorless and inspired by the smaller ones that Yvon Chouinard used to sell. Chouinard's are the ones I'm familiar with, they were darn good shelters. When my father was stationed in Alaska during the Korean War, they used parachutes as tipis, even in the middle of winter.
Kifaru claims that single wall construction is the wave of the future but the physics of a dead air space between two walls suggests to me the arctic oven would be warmer and drier.
Again, has anyone had experience with both kinds? I've never used a stove in a tent before.
Thanks, David Lowry