most wind-proof backpacking hot tent?

[rclouse79]

I have had good luck with my Cimmaron, although I would be lying if I said my butthole didn’t pucker up tighter than a snare drum when the pipe is red hot and the walls are are blowing around all over the place.

 

[6.5x284]

I didn’t end up selling mine and I’ll be cutting a hole in it the next few days for a stove, I want to have my cake and eat it too and the Kaitum with a stove mite just be that, we will see!!!!

Yup. This summer I’ll sew in my stove jack and cut my chimney to length from an older tipi I no longer have. Plan to cut it to about 15” above the highest tent point.


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[Nimrod85]

Does the kifaru have tie off points for guy lines? I can't believe you had issues.

A few years ago we got stuck in a storm in a Luxes twin peak. The tent was whipping and shaking all night but it stayed put. We had every tie out point used and several tied to trees.

My redcliff is big and I have never been in weather like that night in the twin peak, but I feel pretty confident it would hold up well using all the guy lines and good stakes.

I think a smaller tipi like the Cimeron or 4 person tipi would be a good option

Sorry--obviously I sometimes check Rokslide infrequently. I did have the Sawtooth completely guyed out, and I also had several points tied to trees. But it was extremely windy and it was staked in somewhat loose, sandy river bottom soil--perhaps a poor site choice on my part. I do feel like my other tents would have held better. I think you're right and a smaller (shorter and fatter) tipi might be more my style. The Sawtooth is good, but I think with such a tall shelter there is some unavoidable vulnerability to wind.

 

[AK Troutbum]

How about a HMG Ultamid 4 and have Seek put a stove jack in it?

 

[AK Troutbum]

Sorry--obviously I sometimes check Rokslide infrequently. I did have the Sawtooth completely guyed out, and I also had several points tied to trees. But it was extremely windy and it was staked in somewhat loose, sandy river bottom soil--perhaps a poor site choice on my part. I do feel like my other tents would have held better. I think you're right and a smaller (shorter and fatter) tipi might be more my style. The Sawtooth is good, but I think with such a tall shelter there is some unavoidable vulnerability to wind.

I've seen video footage of a Sawtooth on Kodiak, in a pretty significant storm, and it definitely held its own.