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No they’re not marketed as such; the Kelty is a very basic backpacking tent in a design that’s been built & sold by many different companies & the green Eureka is just a Timberline 4XT which is bombproof and timeless but SUPER cold in winter.

I have, however, camped in them in all 4 seasons...

I had a 4 man Eurika like your green one. I spent some great nights in it in hunting season but not in snow.

Did you have to use a ground cover to prevent seepage, please.

Also, i wonder why the other brand would be warmer.

Thx, efw.

Busted my ass for these Sunday a week ago.

Happy birthday efw!!!

Eyeball shot you a mallard and a widgeon!

Who made that canoe?

Busted my ass for these Sunday a week ago.



Got up on the hills and glassed them. Drove around, walked upthe draw and eased over the dam enough to sse they had moved to the west end of the lake. Walk 200 back to truck. Drive way around and sneak in 300 yds. Get ready and ease over and they are on north end. Had to crawl up through brush and luckily saw they had moved before they saw me. Mallard got nervous but i crawled out backwards. Drive back aeound and hoof it up draw again. This time i come over and they fly. I drop these and wound another and get a line on its direction from below normal terrain level. Im trying to catch them with a rod and reel when a big hawk comes over low and on the same line the cripple had taken.

Dayom thing is after my duck. Haul ass down draw to truck and head that direction through to closed ranch gates. I see the hawk sitting on electric pole where lines cross a deep brushy side draw that drains into the main valley draw.

I watch but he cant spy where my duck went down. Then the sucker remembers the two floaters i left on the lake and heads for them. Dayom
. Haul ass back around, through two ranch gates and park and haul ass ass up.the draw and over the dayom. Ducks had almost washed up and he was looking them over.

Dayom wore me out and still suffering cruddy bronchitis.

Next time i need some sitting ducks.

I know this pic is no good but its the best i could do at the time. Driving through a NM draw Sat after quail and hit buckbrush country. Saw a doe up the draw and eased on throughlooking. Saw a light spot 200 yds away and stopped and backed up. All i had was my old android and i expanded and took a pic of a 30 inch main frame 5x5 with his rack up in the buckbrush hes laying under facing and watching me.

Maybe if you are on a computer with large screen you can see him near the top in the middle at the end of the opening. I put my 15 x Zeiss on him and still couldnt get an idea of how many points or how tall with them up in the buckbrush.

Suckers neck was still swelked way out past the width of his head. A big old silver monarch with his outside frames as thick as a mans wrist. Be nice if Jesse or me could get him next season.

vault 106 location

I know this pic is no good but its the best i could do at the time. Driving through a NM draw Sat after quail and hit buckbrush country. Saw a doe up the draw and eased on throughlooking. Saw a light spot 200 yds away and stopped and backed up. All i had was my old android and i expanded and took a pic of a 28-30 inch main frame 5x5 with his rack up in the buckbrush hes laying under facing and watching me.

Maybe if you are on a computer with large screen you can see him near the top in the middle at the end of the opening. I put my 15 x Zeiss on him and still couldnt get an idea of how many points or how tall with them up in the buckbrush.

Suckers neck was still swelked way out past the width of his head. A big old silver monarch with his outside frames as thick as a mans wrist. Be nice if Jesse or me could get him next season. Probably 36 inches around his neck.

vault 106 location

I use sleeping pads and haven’t stayed in either of them more than one night in one place while snowy so haven’t had a leakage issue but yeah if I were to do that I’d get a tarp as ground cover.

It isn’t the brand that would make the Kelty warmer it’s the design which has a fly that comes down closer to the ground and less open air space up high than the Eureka.







Thanks a lot Brian! I love duck!

As you have likely observed, that canoe was purpose built for waterfowling but served me beautifully as a platform for training my boys as advanced paddlists. I bought it from a client who was a boat dealer with a marine storage business. One of his clients on the latter side of the business left that thing after moving south and asked that it be sold. I scored an insane deal.

Here is the company’s website:

http://www.goldenhawkcanoes.com/#3069

Screwin around on a Alaskan creek

My favorite Alaskan hideout

Another Alaskan creek where we had some time to kill.

(excuse the weird frames on these images, I had them posted somewhere that they made sense but currently just digging through a old photobucket account I haven't visited in years)

Same hunt that we killed the Caribou on but we didn't manage to get lucky enough to kill the Moose beside the creek.

Sweet cabin!

Thanks for the link. My Sportspal is pretty hammered. It looks like I’ll have to wait for the next time I’m driving through WI to get one given their dealer network!

A little winter break from the snow in Maui, for the record ahi polo rocks

Stormin Norman sucks.

Yeah, us too.

-36*C at home, +30*C in the Caribbean !

You Numbnutzes have gotta learn which week is vacation time !

Where are you in the Keys? I used to deliver for a company up and down and I don't recall that Key.