Also stretch out your tent and measure it. 6x8 finished dimensions are often 5”8” x 7’8” or so

Your post/thread has brought back memories for a few of us of our first season I'm sure. Certainly has for me. My first season on my own was 79/80. I was able to set up a camp on the lower part of an interior river and trap around there. My shelter was a 10x12 canvas tent. I was able to fell some large spruce and cut them for 3 rounds of logs and building a frame for the tent. The tent went over the frame and was secured to the logs. I had a 55 gal. drum that I cut the bottom 3rd at the rib and then the top section about 3 in. below the top rim. A door hole was cut. A door and handle made from the middle section and hinges screwed on. The stove was placed on the left as you entered the tent and at a height that the top was around 3 ft. off the dirt floor. My spruce pole bed frame was on the right, about 2 ft. off the floor. I'm going to say the stove door was 2 and 1/2 ft. from the bed. I spent the whole trapping season in that tent so I survived my share of 40 below cold spells in the tent.
Maybe you will have a cot, so your not laying on the floor? If you have to pack stuff in what size stove will you have? Good chance you won't see 40 below in Nov. but could see -20 I bet. With todays climate you could probably see rain in early Nov.
Lots of time to plan still.

Maybe you could get a bigger tent and use the 6x8 as your emergency tent. You could have it all set up and ready in case main tent went poof. Can you pull the tent(s) in on a sled? Might save your back some.

I have been playing around with everything before the snow melts. I can get the tent, stove, axe, bow saw, sleep kit, cook kit and around 40 number ones in a milk crate all in a 5' pulk. Food, and extra clothes in the pack basket. This ended up being just not enough room so I plan on commencing with stashing gear out in the bush via a long trip in a canoe sometime in June.

Snowshoes are some I made with the folk school, figured someone would appreciate it.

Snoshoes look good. Hopefully you won't need them or at least not for long. Just dawned on me most everything you pack or canoe in will have to come out.
Gnna be an adventure!

Looking good.

You might see about picking up some #0 footholds if you can find some used ones cheap.
#0's were my favorite foothold marten trap when I was snowshoeing a line.

Yeah I definitely wanna find some before the season.

0 ls are trumps when snowshoeing a line.

Tatiana, how long and wide are those skies? They do look like they would be better and more durable than snowshoes.

Those skis are interesting. The bindings look solid mounted, no pivot action?
More like sliding on stiff sticks, rather than 'skiing'

man a good read, please keep posting as you go, have you gone out to check for tent site, and bring in supply yet,??

Okay, got it. More like snowshoe bindings on skis
I liked using skis but found the typical X-country skis were just too awkward in the brush.
Those short, wide skis seem like just the ticket !

The short wide skis are all the rage with the yuppie crowd the last few years. I've never used either type of cross country ski myself, but if I was to try one, it looks like one of the few good ideas yuppies have had. As a guy who spends most of his time on snowshoes in the mountains or hills, the fur for traction Tatiana shows seems like an excellent idea for skis. I know how important and helpful traction can be on snowshoes when going uphill in certain conditions, if you don't have it, they turn into skis! So I imagine it is just as helpful on skis

hoping akwooodmans post again

Those ski's are awesome! Ive seen the happy people documentary more times than I can count and have always had it on the bucket list to make a pair. Ive used a modern version and Ive also went as far as having a telemark set up.
The modern alta hok skis were awesome until the snow gets too deep. The telemark set up was cool up but the boots were to stiff and uncomfortable. The best set up I found ski wise has been a pair of Ingstads (180CM) with nordgrip bidingings and rubber knee high boots with felt insoles. This was a trick I found from the Finnish guys.

Update on wall tenting season:

I am fortunate enough to have a buddy with a plane, so we went and flew the country. I wanted to verify if there were any big log jams/ rock gardens and just get somewhat of an idea of how difficult it would be to get up this particular creek.

Getting to the creek was a bit of a pain. There was a field of Boone and crocket tussocks to contend with which turned an estimated 2-3 hour portage into about an 8-9 hour portage.
Motoring some slack but nearly every bend there was some form of lining which I already assumed. I didn't make it quite as far as I had hoped but we rand 30-40 river miles and I at least had "boots on ground" to get a feel of the place.

cached some gear and now I am overly paranoid about wildfires, but I guess that's just how it goes. The next trip out will probably be before season to cut some more trail. It probably is a bit small of a tent but man It sure is easy to haul. I think if the season goes well Ill upgrade and leave a big tent out there and look at building one of those marty meriotto trapline cabins.

Assume you will take some poly tarps out. Good to have a covered area to keep stuff under. Assuming you will be skinning as time allows. Gotta take care of the catch. The first year on my own I was over run with marten. Catching faster than I could skin. Warm spell in November produced slipping fur on some of them. Should have skinned and frozen, or kept cold.
Would not be unusual to have November warm spells these days.

Get a bigger tent and a woman to do chores trap around basecamp and supply small game while you trap.

waiting for update,