Longest you’ve ever lived in a wall tent?

[SWOHTR]

Wondering what’s the longest anyone here has lived in a wall tent for? I have PCS orders coming up but the duration I’ll be away prior to returning to San Diego is only a few months. It’s common for military folk to live in a camper for months at a time, which got me thinking about a wall tent. In western WA, Oct-Jan.

Let the stories and comments roll...

 

[tradman]

9 months in Afghanistan. 12 in Iraq.

 

[rob86jeep]

With no family then I would be willing to give it a try. You can always just shower at the gym on base. You'll save some money and have a pretty cool story to talk about later in life.

 

[MeatMissile]

If its wet by PNW standards, it wont be as cold. It won’t even freeze at night. It will just be constantly wet. If its a dry winter, it will be a little colder. It still doesn’t get much colder than 30.

I “lived” in a wall tent in western WA for three weeks. With a wood stove for heat, propane stove for cooking, and a comfortable cot, it’s not bad.

 

[Preston]

I’ve lived in one for 6-8 months several times. Just set up this tent yesterday and plan to live in it in northern MN until November or December. It’s very doable, if your mind is right.

 

[NABG Hunter]

I’ve lived in one for 6-8 months several times. Just set up this tent yesterday and plan to live in it in northern MN until November or December. It’s very doable, if your mind is right.

6-8 months in a tent...really? That's a long time.

 

[grappling_hook]

6-8 months in a tent...really? That's a long time.

Yeah, that's quite a time.

 

[grappling_hook]

I stayed in a wall tent with three co-workers for 4 months at a remote river in Alaska while working for Fish and Game. I was 19 at the time, and the experience has stayed with me ever since (over 25 years later now).

 

[NABG Hunter]

I stayed in a wall tent with three co-workers for 4 months at a remote river in Alaska while working for Fish and Game. I was 19 at the time, and the experience has stayed with me ever since (over 25 years later now).

That would be cool! I can see how the memory would last.

 

[weekender7]

Multiple 18 day excursions, but none of the months long like above. Never an issue for me. I was always having a good time.

 

[Squincher]

I spent enough time in tents in the Army to last the rest of my life. I'm not ever going without walls again by choice.

 

[Preston]

6-8 months in a tent...really? That's a long time.

Yes, lived by ELy Nv for 2.5 years off and on in a army artic tent and smaller dome, once in WV for 7 months, CA near Tahoe for 5 months, Aladdin WY for 7 months, eastern MT for 4 months last summer, and up in MN through this spring-fall. I work in construction and it saves my per-diem money

 

[Deadfall]

6 months during guiding seasons.
A couple 12 month stints in middle east late 90's early 2000s

 

[Nealm66]

3 months in metaline falls Washington from august -October. 1984 pre commercial thinning trees. Nope. Never again I hope. A guy was still able to homestead 8 years before. Definitely remote area back then

 

[Laramie]

Just over a month at elevation in the fall. It gets old waking up to tend the fire

 

[Jn78]

A friend and I did about 3 months in a crappy 3 person kelty backpacking tent in Kenya. A wall tent would've been a huge upgrade.

 

[SWOHTR]

What size do you all recommend then? One person, 4 months.

 

[3forks]

No personal experience going for more than a few days at a time in a wall tent.

However, to the OP or anyone else - check out a book titled “The Indian Creek Chronicles”, by Pete Fromm.

It’s a excellent book about the seven months the author spent living alone with only his dog through a winter in Idaho.

 

[ericacymcdonald]

I live in a converted cargo van for work, 8 days on 7 days off. No heater or AC everywhere from arizona in summer to wyoming in winter. A wall tent would be nicer. I don't really "live" in it just sleep after 12 hour shifts then gym then dinner somewhere. Wasn't bad at all till the covid shutdowns then it got kinda rough so I got hotels till stuff started opening again.

 

[KineKilla]

What size do you all recommend then? One person, 4 months.

I'd get as big as you can afford (within reason). Space for a propane stove, table, chair, etc. Nice double wide cot.

I have a 14x20 I think and could live in that for a long time with just 1 person. Especially if I didn't have the wood stove inside. I opted for the vestibule on mine, nice to have a mud room. Could even do 2 people for a long time comfortably.

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