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Tent Requirements - part 1
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No single type of tent can truly be described as best. Each has distinct advantages. The small, two- to three-man tent with a tapered floor plan and sloping ridge is the most popular model. There are also the tried and proved mountaineering tents, such as the Mead, Logan, and Whymper.
Design of tents.—Whatever model is selected, certain factors are important:
1) Weight should be kept to about two to three pounds
per man. This compels the elimination of many poles
required by some types. Skis at front and rear, skis
or ski poles for pegs, should fully satisfy all require
ments. The tent is dropped if left all day, and its location
marked.
2) Tents that require numerous guy lines to support
the various edges and walls have no place in winter
mountaineering.
3) Tents with perpendicular walls will catch the
wind and should be avoided wherever possible. Slop
ing walls, on the other hand, spill the wind, particularly
if the guy lines which hold up the peak or ridge are
supported by rubber bands.
4) A sewed-in bottom is indispensable. The tent will
then be held down in heavy wind by the weight of the
occupants even though all stakes and anchorages fail.
If it is planned to use a tent primarily in timber, a
permeable floor of two-or three-ounce percale is better
than a waterproof floor. Laid over fir boughs it is warm
(no air mattress is necessary), dry, and at the same time
never allows puddles of water to form from melted snow
or from condensation of breath, insensible perspiration,
or steam from cooking. If the tent is to be used much
above timberline, a light waterproof sheet may be laid
over the percale floor or a waterproof floor of regular
tent fabric substituted. The separate sheet, although
heavier, has the advantage of permitting the condensation on the inner walls
to run down through the permeable floor into the snow without wetting the contents
of the tent.
5) Provision should be made, either by the tent design
or by zippers on the tent floor, to cook on snow rather than on the floor itself. Water is then available inside the tent, and a toppling pot of soup is not a disaster.
6) The tent must be made of lightweight fabric in order to come within the rigid
weight restrictions required for comfortable ski mountaineering. Fabrics weighing two to four ounces per square
yard have tensile strengths of forty to eighty pounds per inch and in a properly
designed tent are rugged enough for the most violent storms. Excellent
lightweight nylon fabrics weighing from 11/2 to 21/2 ounces per square yard are now being made. Coated fabrics have not proved acceptable owing to the excessive condensation on tent walls, which cannot be effectively controlled by ventilation, particularly in stormy weather.
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