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Which would make it a mobile home.

Many years ago I bought a surplus Army 5-man Arctic tent complete with arctic liner, pole set, Yukon stove, and exhaust venting. This model is pictured below. I paid $300 for it. I put the whole setup in two 55 gallon overpack drums and stashed them in the woods on my property. I wanted an emergency, heated shelter that could be set up quickly and would be accessible if an earth quake crumbled my home on top of all my camping gear. The Yukon stove was designed to burn diesel, gasoline, JP-4, wood, or coal (but burning gas was just begging for a tent fire.........we used to mix gas and diesel for a safer, hotter fuel). As you can see, the tent has short walls, but the roof design is more teepee-ish than a gabled pitch seen on wall tents. The Army design would shed snow better, but it would not provide as much good standing room inside. With the Arctic liner and stove, one could sleep comfortably in -60F temps. I’ve done it.

Is the hot tub around back?

LOL.......squatty.........I like it! They would proclaim themselves to be skeptics, not deniers. That’s the ideology, even if their behavior doesn’t fit the definition of the word. Your outlook on sasquatchery, tempered with reason (unlike theirs), demonstrates the difference. Moreover, few people willingly accept a qualifier so extreme as “denier”. However, I’m near willing to accept the title of denier when it comes to anthropogenic climate change, but even then I concede that it does occur. I just don’t believe it is responsible for what is occurring today, and I certainly refuse to accept that man can tax his way to a perfect climate.

Done. Plussed for using Linux!

LOL, yeah, thanks. I don't like being lumped in with the scofftics. Are Dmaker and sqattymcsquat still around? 8, 9 and 10 were added. My answers are Charcoal Oldies Linux PC.

MikeZimmer, I agree, he was a professional guide, extremely familiar with the wildlife, in particular, bears, the only thing close in size to a sasquatch. So when he estimates it at eight feet tall, I would tend to believe his estimate which is a rather impressive stature. pg.127 "The second sasquatch I saw was in Mud Bay, in Dean Channel. Mud Bay is about ten miles down from Brynildsen Bay. It is like a kind of a lagoon there, narrow entrance to go in there but lots of room once your inside. I was looking for bears. I didn't want to go into middle of the bay, so I went to shore and walked along the sand beach. I see a man-head, it look like, behind a tree. It was looking at me. The head was sticking out from behind a tree. I kneeled down and point my gun at him. Gee, he took off fast. He was about two hundred feet away. Not too big, about my size-five foot seven or eight. Had lots of hair all over his face. Almost look like a person but not a person. I didn't want to shoot him. So I walked up to where he was. And where he went in I followed him. I saw a tree, bark had been pulled off. I guess, he was eating at the sap of a hemlock tree. I almost caught him eating that. I saw tracks, but not too good." Pat...

Hey, I did not see a category for rocket scientist. What's up with that? Gas or charcoal. I am in areas that do not allow fires in unapproved locations. What that means is that fires are only allowed in fire pits of campgrounds, as in pay for campsite. The Forest Service patrol vehicles cruise around looking for fire rings. They remove any fuels left behind, no matter how charred. Gas type fuels, used in a gas appliance are it. Not harsh when you think about preventing forest fires. Changes the way that you make s'mores, As a back up, have Moon Pies standing by with a serious liquid chaser.

Mine is a Montana canvas wall tent. 14x17 with a 10 ft “porch”. I have several wood stoves including the one with a baking oven and water heater built into the fire box. I only take that when the Mrs comes along. Its the cadillac of tent camping.... The downside is finding a flat spot big enough to set it up. Ive thought about building a wood deck on the ranch for it and just throw it up for family or company like a cabin.

Here is a very interesting study on firearms use during Alaskan bear attacks: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261982557_Efficacy_of_Firearms_for_Bear_Deterrence_in_Alaska I was initially surprised at the higher success rate for handguns, but after thinking about it, this is likely due to handguns being near to hand more often than long guns. The factors for firearms failure?: As one would expect, this was at the end of the study: I contest that final contention. First, all the reasons for firearm failure can equally cause spray failure with the additional factor of wind (the wind will never blow your bullet back into your face). Secondly, spray has only been around for twenty years or so, and any study conducted thus far cannot be accurately compared to a study of firearms use going back over a century. Thirdly, a 90% success rate isn’t much better than the firearms success ate so far. Finally, the single type of bear encounter in which spray shines is that of a dangerously curious bear, and I content that such a bear might as well be killed before he becomes a real problem. I’ve been “tested” by a potentially predatory bear. I had a rifle, and I should have killed him, but I didn’t because I was following the rules. Frankly, I should have just wasted him. I’m fairly confident that he was a subsequent problem bear. Granted, spraying him down might have taught him a lesson, but he gave me little opportunity to blast him with the 338 WinMag. I had zero opportunity to spray him down. Spray with rifle and sidearm? Sure.......in base camp or in the vehicle. Am I going to carry that shit around on my body? No way. The Glock is heavy and bulky enough. I’ll stick with the firearms, hunting license, and bear tags in my pocket........and, most importantly, bear awareness and caution..........

norseman, haha ! No worries, I just always figured the 1911 is a classic.