Tell me why this "2 season" tent will kill me this fall

[Mike 338]

Just used a cheap Coleman for many cold weather hunts. Rain isn't an issue and if it's cold outside, it's gonn'a be cold inside even in a nice tent so you'll probably just get in your bag. If it's snowing, you gott'a wake up and knock the snow off the top and sides or you'll find the side of the tent pushed into your face and wetting out your bag. Problem with that is, you'll never sleep better that when it's snowing! A couple times I've stumped back into camp and the tent looked like a giant sat on it but no broken poles so I just knocked the snow off and all good. Just remember, dudes have been hunting for thousands of years and up till this last century, none of them needed high tech stuff.

 

[5MilesBack]

Two season makes absolutely no sense imo what's the difference between spring and fall?

It just means that it's good for both seasons.......summer and winter.

 

[Whaledriver]

Guess it depends on how close to the truck you are. Here is September in Colorado. Not my tent. Walmart tents in the mountains work until they don't.

 

[tttoadman]

Hazard of wet snow on a 3 season tent is real. This was 5 miles back in November. I gambled with my copper spur and paid the price. If it starts snowing, just stay close and don't let it get out of control.

 

[ChrisAU]

Update: Did not die. $100 5lb tent performed pretty dang well.

 

[Montana Slim]

Congrats! As long as you are choosy on site (wind) and don't get DUMPED on (1ft+) things are golden... but when things get ugly it is sure nice to be in a bomber shelter - especially for a couple days or more.

 

[chops24]

Congrats!

 

[jspradley]

Congrats on staying alive!

How messed up would that have been if we had told him he wouldn't die.... and then he died.

 

[ChrisAU]

Congrats on staying alive!

How messed up would that have been if we had told him he wouldn't die.... and then he died.

I would have been disappointed, for a short amount of time anyway.

 

[jspradley]

I would just hope you managed to get that final Rokslide post out telling us what you thought about us all before the cold embrace of death took you.

 

[ChrisAU]

Congrats! As long as you are choosy on site (wind) and don't get DUMPED on (1ft+) things are golden... but when things get ugly it is sure nice to be in a bomber shelter - especially for a couple days or more.

As an aside, I bet if there had been any local/experienced person watching us one day they would have laughed...on the 3rd day of the hunt we decided it was worth returning to camp during the middle of the day to try to level the spot the tent was on, or find a slightly flatter spot. We were tired of sliding into the walls while sleeping. So we unstaked it and pulled it off its previous spot and started pulling up a little grass and moving some rocks. A nice gust came in and poof - there went the tent about 20 feet sideways into the base of a spruce (the one to the right in the snow pic). We both kinda looked at it like "huh, never had that happen in Alabama"

 

[Cf8889]

Do you have a good bag and sleeping pad? I've done just fine in a cheap 3season tent in cold Alberta winters. But I was always climbing into a quality bag at night