If I can take a truck there, I use my wall tent. I have had lesser expensive nylon tents collapse in the wind and rain before and I have never even camped out in AK! I think that the smaller tents have a much better chance of surviving bad weather. You put up a big tent, it better be a good one!
One time camped in the Kaibab, I had to tie large ropes to the main poles of the wall tent and stake into the wind with a tandem of 36" steel stakes. We had 50-60 knot wind all night one night and it held. It was, however, a sleepless night!
