2 man shelter

[Shrek]

What's really funny is that campsaver just emailed their black Friday sale and the groundhogs are on sale for $14.36 and the ul pillow for $48 & change. Damn ! I'm broke at the moment too !

 

[fillthefreezer]

! I'm broke at the moment too !

its all the nights in the hotel...


sorry man, couldnt resist

 

[Shrek]

They didn't help any , thats for sure ! What those nights really did was cut a week off my hunt. I would have come home dead broke either way. I was always going to hunt until I ran out of money.

 

[aron]

What's really funny is that campsaver just emailed their black Friday sale and the groundhogs are on sale for $14.36 and the ul pillow for $48 & change. Damn ! I'm broke at the moment too !

I tried the exped ul pillow for two nights and hated it. Ugh I wanted to take my knife and stab the shit out of it, I toss and turn all night and that pillow just didn't work. When I got back from my hunt, I went and bought about the heaviest backpacking pillow I could find and love all 10 oz of it. Quite the difference from the lightest backpacking pillow

 

[fillthefreezer]

ok, so i got my hands on a sawtooth to check out. wow! awesome shelter! i want one of these bad!


BUT, too small for a base camp. so im throwing out being packable and just replacing it being quick to setup. this will be dedicated to camping near the roads

so stand up tall
wood stove
room for 2 cots plus stove and gear
handle wind and all aroiund shit weather
quick to pitch and take down

 

[Mad Mountain Mike]

I'm waiting on my Seek Outside BCS with add in panel and large stove to come in. On paper it looks comparable to the Sawtooth, I'll be taking it on a 5 or 6 day snowshoe/wolf hunting trip the first week of January and will post up how it works out.

 

[fillthefreezer]

I'm waiting on my Seek Outside BCS with add in panel and large stove to come in. On paper it looks comparable to the Sawtooth, I'll be taking it on a 5 or 6 day snowshoe/wolf hunting trip the first week of January and will post up how it works out.

curious how that setup compares with the BCS2

 

[Justin Crossley]

ok, so i got my hands on a sawtooth to check out. wow! awesome shelter! i want one of these bad!


BUT, too small for a base camp. so im throwing out being packable and just replacing it being quick to setup. this will be dedicated to camping near the roads

so stand up tall
wood stove
room for 2 cots plus stove and gear
handle wind and all aroiund shit weather
quick to pitch and take down

Sounds like you're looking for a 12 man tipi or maybe a wall tent to me.

 

[Shrek]

BUT, too small for a base camp. so im throwing out being packable and just replacing it being quick to setup. this will be dedicated to camping near the roads

so stand up tall
wood stove
room for 2 cots plus stove and gear
handle wind and all aroiund shit weather
quick to pitch and take down

You know what you want...a tipi ! More precisely a Kifaru tipi. When car camping the sky and campsite size is the limit but if I had the cash free it would be a 12 man for me. Big enough but not too limiting for campsites. Two guys or six it will all fit. Cots , packs , you name it. 8 man gets it done but if you want to bring a crew you have to start making choices about what to bring and who. I think Ryan hosted his Moose hunt from a 12 man to get an idea of what type of circus you can run in one. At 11 lbs it can be packed easily by a crew far from a road if you split the camp among three or more guys and bring alone your light gear to spike out of. The large /tall oval is only 4.25 lbs so a whole rig is less than 15lbs. If you can pact a load of meat out then 15 lbs is nothing to have a base camp palace. Jmo.

 

[fillthefreezer]

Sounds like you're looking for a 12 man tipi or maybe a wall tent to me.

i have a wall tent, it just take so long to setup and tear down its almost not worth it unless spending a week.
this year we put it up and left it during the week and it got hammered... chimney got blown apart(no fire thank god), bent 6 of my stakes in half.
id rather not do that again next year and is how this whole topic came up haha

 

[todd kelly]

i have a wall tent, it just take so long to setup and tear down its almost not worth it unless spending a week.
this year we put it up and left it during the week and it got hammered... chimney got blown apart(no fire thank god), bent 6 of my stakes in half.
id rather not do that again next year and is how this whole topic came up haha

Well if weight and size does not matter and head room and an easy set up is.... have a look at the Cabelas Big Horn tent. I've been using mine now for 8 years or so and it is an awesome base camp tent. No joke, I can set it up by myself with the stove going in 15min, take down is about 10min. It is so easy to set up and take down it is my go to car camping tent during the summer trips with the wife. There is a ton of room for two guys, and if more room is needed, the vestibule adds a fair bit more useable space. We have used it with 4 people many times as well, tight, but you can make it work.

It handles the weather like a champ. Ive had it in everything from heavy winds, straight rain for over a week and heavy wet winter snow falls without issue. Like any single walled tent, condensation is an issue, but easily taken care of with a wood stove and proper ventilation.

Over the lat 15 years or so of hunting and guiding, I have stayed in a ton of different base camp tents, from big canvas wall tents, blended wall tents, tipis, dome tents, ect, and with out a doubt, I would pick the Big Horn over any of them every time.

 

[fillthefreezer]

those that have run the sawtooth, how does it handle condensation if not using the stove?

 

[Stid2677]

those that have run the sawtooth, how does it handle condensation if not using the stove?

Okay if is is very dry, low humidity, not so much if raining and high humidity. Here in Alaska I have learned to just leave the liner tied in.

Steve

 

[Wrongside]

Another option, if you're not concerned about size and weight, are the tipis from tipitent.com. I just spent a week in their 'Outfitter', which they have on a factory second/demo sale right now for under $500.00, and it's a pile of shelter for the money. Not super light, at 25 pounds without pole, but seems well built and is very solid in wind and bad weather. Easy to pitch and warms up very quick in the morning. It was a palace for three guys. Even with horse and backpack gear. Great option for horse packing light or camps close to vehicles, IMO.

I snagged one as soon as I got home...