By Christina|2017-12-19T18:02:20-05:00December 19th, 2017|Categories: Adventure, backcountry, backcountry camping, camping, Canada, cold, DIY, education, enthusiasm, Exploring, family day weekend, glamping, homemade, hot tent, learning, logo, miner, Muskoka, Nature, Ontario, outdoor products, Outdoors, pyramid, solo trip, teepee, tent, tentcamping, tipi, triangletent, winter, winter camping, winter camping tips, winterinthewild|Tags: @keencanada, @lureofthenorth, @ontarionature, @ontariotravel, #adventure, #backcountry, #backcountrycamping, #backcountryhottent, #backcountryhottenting, #camperchristina, #camperchristinasbchottent, #camping, #canada, #diy, #explore, #exploring, #getoutside, #homemadehottent, #hottent, #hottenting, #knico, #knicostove, #madeitmyself, #ontario, #sew, #sewing, #staywarm, #winter, #wintercamping, #woodstove, camp, homemade|
In November 2015, I built a DIY Tipi hot tent. It is awesome and I love it dearly, but unfortunately, the tipi is not made for the backcountry. I took it on a few small trips last year and very quickly realized it weighs a tonne. I hadn’t realized how much until I had made a statistics sheet about it for winter in the wild and was amazed to see that it weighed about 65 lbs and with [...]