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Posted by calamity on December 27, 2007 at 4:55:13 pm EST
In reply to Re: 3-season tent use posted by bheiser1 on December 24, 2007 at 6:08:33 pm EST

Sorry I confused these two models. Any decent tent maker these days puts a lot of thought into vents and Mt. Hardwear certainly makes good products, though some might find them a tad heavy and pricey on average.

A larger point is, there are "winter" conditions, and then something one might call "expedition," or really severe conditions. One hears of getting snow accumulations in the range of 6 feet or more in a day, and the absolute necessity, also, of building windbreaks around tents.

Typically, you don't just happen on to these conditions, but rather, they are encountered days of travel above treeline, high up on, or above, glaciers in Alaska, or places like that, where you can more-or-less plan for them.

Because of weight and cost, a "3-three-season tent," with full-coverage fly, may be pretty close to ideal for most "winter" camping in most places, and perhaps "4-season" is a misnomer, where "expedition" could be better applied.

Mt Hardwear's product nomenclature for example; "lightweight," "all-mountain" and "expedition," I think is more descriptive than "3-season" and "4-season."

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