After getting my arse kicked late fall in the high country I am looking into shelter options and thought I might as well start a thread, atleast get my post count closer to Shreks.
1) Need to have a stove. I don't care what kind of rain gear you have, if you hunt in the weather and terrain I do, you will either be soaked (all your gear) after two days, or you sit in the tent and wait. Therefore, I feel a stove option might give me the ability to dry gear out either every night or every two days. I could actually care less about being "warm" in the tent. I am only in that thing to eat, then sleep. I can wear down gear while eating and be warm, and I am not called when I sleep.
2) Usually during these conditions I am alone. Sure, maybe one days I will hunt with someone during this type of weather but it rarely happens. So probably a shelter on the smaller side
3) As always he lighter the better, but I do not want to trade durability/functionality for weight. For example, I rather have something that can buck wind, than something light that I Would be worried or fighting with during a wind storm.
4) I already own a Cimarron. Love it. Use it often. I could just add a stove jack to it. Would be a palace for 1 with a stove. Lots of room to dry out gear etc. Could also work if I ever end up sharing the experience with some other whacko. But, is it overkill? Too big? Can I get the same functionality out of something smaller and lighter (silvertip)?
If I had a dedicated group of hunters I went with I would likely spread the financial pain and weight of a Sawtooth. But that isnt the case.
I guess my only hesitation about adding a stove jack to my Cimarron, is I love the weight it is at right now, and I am not sure if I will need a shelter that big, if mostly solo hunting during these WET, snowy etc. conditions.. I guess a bigger shelter would allow me to cape something in the shelter if I was able to get so lucky, or atleast bone out quarters in a shelter if conditions were that miserable outside.
Anyway, figured it was time for me to get some input from everyone else. (Things are slow at work at the moment).
1) Need to have a stove. I don't care what kind of rain gear you have, if you hunt in the weather and terrain I do, you will either be soaked (all your gear) after two days, or you sit in the tent and wait. Therefore, I feel a stove option might give me the ability to dry gear out either every night or every two days. I could actually care less about being "warm" in the tent. I am only in that thing to eat, then sleep. I can wear down gear while eating and be warm, and I am not called when I sleep.
2) Usually during these conditions I am alone. Sure, maybe one days I will hunt with someone during this type of weather but it rarely happens. So probably a shelter on the smaller side
3) As always he lighter the better, but I do not want to trade durability/functionality for weight. For example, I rather have something that can buck wind, than something light that I Would be worried or fighting with during a wind storm.
4) I already own a Cimarron. Love it. Use it often. I could just add a stove jack to it. Would be a palace for 1 with a stove. Lots of room to dry out gear etc. Could also work if I ever end up sharing the experience with some other whacko. But, is it overkill? Too big? Can I get the same functionality out of something smaller and lighter (silvertip)?
If I had a dedicated group of hunters I went with I would likely spread the financial pain and weight of a Sawtooth. But that isnt the case.
I guess my only hesitation about adding a stove jack to my Cimarron, is I love the weight it is at right now, and I am not sure if I will need a shelter that big, if mostly solo hunting during these WET, snowy etc. conditions.. I guess a bigger shelter would allow me to cape something in the shelter if I was able to get so lucky, or atleast bone out quarters in a shelter if conditions were that miserable outside.
Anyway, figured it was time for me to get some input from everyone else. (Things are slow at work at the moment).