most wind-proof backpacking hot tent?

Nimrod85

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Does anyone have any advice on the best backpack-able hot tent for windy or severe weather conditions? I have a Silex, and it's pretty great--but with only four stakes and no floor it's vulnerable to the wind and to rain splatter under the tarp.

I also have a Kifaru Sawtooth. It's also great, though a bit heavier. The size lets me sleep away from the edges to minimize rain splatter, but it's so tall that it didn't stand up well in a windstorm on last year's elk hunt. Rather than staying warm inside, I was constantly going out to fix stakes.

What I'd really like is something like a Hilleberg Namatj 2GT except built with a stove jack. Or--better yet--some kind of free-standing geodesic-dome tent with a stove jack that's still relatively light (8 lbs is heavy but would be okay for what I'm thinking).

I'm also considering buying a backpacking dome tent and then sewing in a stove jack--probably to an attached vestibule.

Anyone have any ideas? Does anyone manufacture this kind of thing?
 

ADKHTR

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Does anyone have any advice on the best backpack-able hot tent for windy or severe weather conditions? I have a Silex, and it's pretty great--but with only four stakes and no floor it's vulnerable to the wind and to rain splatter under the tarp.

I also have a Kifaru Sawtooth. It's also great, though a bit heavier. The size lets me sleep away from the edges to minimize rain splatter, but it's so tall that it didn't stand up well in a windstorm on last year's elk hunt. Rather than staying warm inside, I was constantly going out to fix stakes.

What I'd really like is something like a Hilleberg Namatj 2GT except built with a stove jack. Or--better yet--some kind of free-standing geodesic-dome tent with a stove jack that's still relatively light (8 lbs is heavy but would be okay for what I'm thinking).

I'm also considering buying a backpacking dome tent and then sewing in a stove jack--probably to an attached vestibule.

Anyone have any ideas? Does anyone manufacture this kind of thing?
I’m right there with you, for all the same reasons, I have a Hille Kaitum 2 GT for sale right now in the classifieds that I bought originally to purposely convert to a hot tent but I’m not super excited about cutting a hole in a $1,500 tent that has no fire retardant added and then using a wood stove, hence why it’s for sale, but I still mite do it…..
 

Ice-kub

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I have a pomoly locomotive 3, they make a smaller version (locomotive 20), it was very sturdy through a wind storm for us.
 
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