Specially when the stove gets going because the ground thaws and you get to sleep in the mud.
I can't say I have experienced this.
Travis
Me either, and I've slept in plenty of tipis in cold weather. Even with a big stove, only a small bit of ground next to the stove thaws, and that's where the woodpile goes. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I rarely sleep right next to the stove anyway, red-hot metal and $500 sleeping bags are not a good combination.
There certainly are trade-offs between conventional tents and stoves/tipis. Once 4 of us used a big Kifaru 12 man on a late season hunt. We pulled our stuff in on sleds. Had to pitch the tipi on uneven rocky ground, so we shoveled snow inside for our sleeping platforms and leveled it out, worked great. We also slid our sleds with gear right inside, didn't have to unpack and it kept our gear organized. When the fire was going in the stove, we had to strip down to t-shirts inside.
Try that with your double-walled bathtub-floored tent.
