Still a couple more posts to come from last week's alpine deer/goat hunt. It has been super busy of late around here! This hunt post highlights the scenery and camp.
Rather than the old Kifaru 8 man teepee that we have always taken on the hunt this year we took a Seek Outside tent made from dyneema fabric. It is our new elk hunt tent and should sleep 4 of us comfortably. It is the same tent I used on a bunch of my archaeological surveys this year (click here for a post featuring tent and here for a youtube video of tent on same survey surviving a storm).
I like the tent because the fabric does not absorb water or 'relax' when cold. Nor does it shrink when hot. You just set it up super taut and it stays that way. In the wind it never flaps. It is pretty much bomb proof in a storm. Tent and stove all together weigh something like 5 or 6 pounds.
On this trip we did not need to go super light weight but it was nice to know that if we did get socked with a super storm that the tent would hold up. It was also WAY big enough for the three of us, and as usual quite cozy late at night with the wood stove cranked and the wicky flowing. This was the first camping trip of the year where I really needed to use the luci light lanterns. Fall is here and it is getting dark at night in Alaska. Patrick
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| On the second day we came across no water and drank from this stagnant puddle |
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