Tent set up for third season elk in CO

[Nicaburns]

DANCHEL OUTDOOR B2 Portable Yurt with Stove Jack for All Year Living, 4 Season Bell Tent 4/6 Person Family Camping Glamping Gears 300D Oxford Khaki,13ft/16.4ft https://a.co/d/05moyKrB
Base camp with a cheap stove… won’t break the bank and works great

 

[Pilsner]

Get a wall tent/tipi tent with stove for base camp. The ability to get warm and dry out your gear is paramount if you want to be able to hunt effectively day after day.

I tend to toss a bivy sack, my glassing pad (a z-lite pad cut in half), a woobie, and a tarp in my pack daily just for comfort while glassing. It makes an unexpected night on the mtn a bunch more comfortable and about 200% more survivable if the unexpected happens while I am out.

Kind of the middle ground approach between Base camp/spike camp debate.
If you are in the mtns you should ALWAYS have a beanie, puffy coat, rain shell, and gloves with you. This means that even if you are caught without your entire sleep system that you aren't gonna die of hypothermia with the above setup.

 

[HiMtnHntr]

I don’t hunt the later seasons anymore without the ability to burn wood. Being cold is just not worth it. Better to have and not need than need and not have….

 

[fracguy]

Get a wall tent/tipi tent with stove for base camp. The ability to get warm and dry out your gear is paramount if you want to be able to hunt effectively day after day.

I tend to toss a bivy sack, my glassing pad (a z-lite pad cut in half), a woobie, and a tarp in my pack daily just for comfort while glassing. It makes an unexpected night on the mtn a bunch more comfortable and about 200% more survivable if the unexpected happens while I am out.

Kind of the middle ground approach between Base camp/spike camp debate.
If you are in the mtns you should ALWAYS have a beanie, puffy coat, rain shell, and gloves with you. This means that even if you are caught without your entire sleep system that you aren't gonna die of hypothermia with the above setup.

To add to that, fire starter, waterproof matches, lighter, pararcord are always in my pack. I can always build a fire if need be to get warm and dry my stuff out. At that point it's more of a survival situation than just a comfort issue and I don't care about scaring animals with a fire. Was on a backpack trip when I was in college in vail Colorado and myself and 2 other guys went ahead and found the cabin we were staying the week at. Waited around for an hour for others to start showing up because they were slower and not in as good as shape as we were in. Nobody showed up so we headed down the mountain, this was early November so cold and lots of snow up there. We found all of our classmates about half mile from the cabin, they all took their clothes and tossed them in the snow and was all in their sleeping bags in the snow. I built a fire and we got everyone huddled around it getting warm while we packed everyones bags up to the cabin. By time we had gotten all their packs to the cabin everyone was warm and dryish, enough to get moving. The teacher wasn't very experienced at any of that and wasn't smart to have all of us up there. But had we not been able to build a fire to get everyone warm, I'm sure fingers and toes would have been frostbitten. I sure didn't respect the mountains when I was a teenager but learned how to survive with all the dumb crap I used to do. Kinda miss being a stupid kid lol