For as big as Alaska is, it is a very small world. This is just another example.

-TJ

Rock you can store your vehicle at my shop in fairbanks.

Yea, found out about a year ago he passed away. Cancer I believe. I worked on his plane in the past and saw it for sale, which led me to asking around.
Good Luck Murph. Should be a good place. He had a couple kids but apparently they aren't planning on using the place.
Gary was a bit of a character, but a hard worker and talented trapper. Sorry to see him gone.
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I don't know what to think. Your neighbor had a vehicle stolen a couple days ago. I wouldn't park mine there!

Al needs some extra vehicles parked there for when his gets stolen!

To return to the topic, I have never lived all winter in a wall tent, but have trapped out of one that was left out all winter. Always nice to roll up to the tent after hours on a snow machine checking traps. We found some dead standing spruce that had about ten trees growing in a 10x12 rectangle, and chopped them off at the same height of 5'. We had built a plywood floor that was in four pieces, and bolted it together once we sledded it to location. We set it on top of the stumps. We also built wall frames with one foot ply wood extensions, to make our tent taller. Each wall was built in two pieces that were bolted together once snow machined to location. We also hauled out the ridge pole and rafters. It was nice to prefab the floor and frame where there was power and heat, rather than felling trees out in the bush, and building a frame out of them with hand tools. We just hauled the frame out forty miles, quickly bolted it together, and slipped our wall tent on it. We never worried about firewood, as there was plenty of dead standing timber where we trapped. It was easy to fell trees for firewood out on site as needed.

My trapping partner and I made the walls higher by making the wall frames 1 foot higher than the tent walls, and the adding 18" of plywood around the bottom, which you can see in the picture. It really was nice having 1' more head room. Probably made it a little cooler in the tent, but the extra room was worth it.

Space is at a premium in a tent. We slept on cots so we could put totes under them, and everything was in totes so we could stack them along one wall. Being organized is huge on having a lot of floor space. That helps pass a long winter without going crazy!

Having wood walls inside helps with hanging stuff to dry.