Yeah, I agree Jeff, the truck is a bit odd. A large part of my life, it was usually a riverboat, sometimes a snowmachine, rarely an airplane. Now that I'm down here though, it's still a bit odd, cause 99% of the "campers" are in an RV. Not too many Alaska Tent and Tarp wall tents. I try to go where the RVs cant get to.

Jack

Adak several years ago.
BTW, that tent survived a 70mph wind for a couple of days at that location, one of the poles bent a bit but was still usable.

You and I will have to compare notes sometime. I worked at Powell in 92-92 and worked a lot of fires during those years. In 92 the Powell District had 139 fires alone and that was my rookie year out there. My first fire was on Parachute hill in 92. We hunted that Powell country in 95 and later on started hunting near Bruce Meadows and Deadwood where I worked on the Boise. We ran 2 wall tents and I will have to try to dig out some pictures.

I believe it was 93 when we flew the Farmall Cub out of the Fish Lake airstrip with a Bell Super 204. We did our research on what a Cub SHOULD weigh but we didn't factor in the fluid filled tires. The 204 couldn't pick it so this MN farm kid had to start pulling the rear tires and wheels. I was told that tractor was going into a museum in MSO somewhere but I never saw it. Lots of good memories in that country.

I think the few years lake hopping with a 7ECA and catching a lot of marten are more legendary than a winter in a tent. The tent was about a foot too high. Would have been warmer in 40 below if it had been lower.
No claustrophobia........too busy skinning marten. As I said, they were everywhere. For over a month I was catching more each day than I could skin at night. Cooking for dogs and keeping a wood pile stocked all contributed to a lack of time to feel claustrophobic. I think I sent over 100 marten over to the west coast with another Nowitna trapper at Xmas. Pretty sure he sold them and his to the Unalakleet AC store for a 48 dollar average. That was a fortune at that time to a 22 year old guy from Nebraska!! Haha!

Gotta respect trapping all winter out of a wall tent with a dog team. Lots of work. You must've spent many hours getting firewood. That Nowitna country gets cold cold cold.

Tru That ^ and feeding a barrel stove will keep you busy, when they go out its cold instantly.

One of the best things I was taught in life was to sleep on a caribou skin camping in the wall tent. The difference is night and day between sleeping warm or shivering all night.

Excellent pictures, guys. Something about a tent camp that really stirs the juices. It's a good Christmas morning that I can peruse tent camp set-ups in various places in the world. Thanks...

Jack

Some of the best days of my life where spent archery hunting while tent camping in the National Forest in W VA Our octagon tent slept 4 comfortably With a table in the center ,a small cook stove ,a ventless propane heater to keep the tent at about 65 degrees and a sturdy cot with a nice air mattress and sleeping bag It was warm and dry and cozy enough to be content to be inside if the weather was rainy or
[very cold .We set up near to the area we hunted .Often times we would walk to our hunting spots so it was like walking out your back door and being in your hunting spot . And the deer hunting was mostly good WE would generally get at least a deer among the 3 or sometimes 4 of us And if we did our part and hit what we shot at we would go home with 2 or 3 deer . The area we hunted was about 10000 acres of public land .So during a 2 week time period you could not cover but a small amount of locations that you could find and kill a mature buck .