Tent Failure Tales

[AKDoc]

On the flip side...a tent success story, and...

On a September moose hunt in western Alaska one year we had to hunker-down for a three-day residual typhoon with winds recorded up to 80mph. In over thirty-years living in Alaska, it was the most intense wind/rain I'd ever experienced in a tent!

We had gotten an advanced alert/warning and moved our tents to a nearby slightly recessed willow thicket/moose bedding area for some cover. Our Hilleberg Staika's were the MVP's of that hunt, as always...and they held up just fine. We always use cyclone tent stakes on the tundra...and they worked great. We preventatively dropped the center-pole of the tipi (our day shelter) and anchored it down before the storm hit...and it stayed put.

The day after...

...and on that same day after the storm, we took a nice 64" bull, who had also been hunkered down for a few days and needed to move.

 

[longrangelead]

A buddy went to take a dump and came back to his Cimarron in a flaming pile with all his gear inside. lost everything!
was set up on an old road bed in timber, no wind.
he suspects the carbon center pole got to hot being to close to the stove and either collapsed or caught fire and spread.

 

[tttoadman]

I had a copper spur 2P go down with about 3” of wet snow. It was the only tent I had. These are too flat on top to take any reasonable snow.

We broke the small MSR aluminum pole with a cimarron. We believe the wind in this canyon was gusting up to 80 or more. It was pretty spooky. We got the large diameter MSR pole. Never had issues after that. I have the same large diameter 3 pc pole for my Silvertip. I have had this setup in pretty heavy snow with no issues.