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If setup properly Tipi's are plenty strong! As is a tent!

I think you need to figure out and decide on which one fits your needs more. Or buy both and have options!

I make them bring their own tent!

Yeah. This makes sense.

The more I look at the kuiu storm, the more it makes since for a packable 4 season tent (double vestibule/entry, and fairly lightweight). Although a 6-7lb tipi/stove setup would be sweet.

You also might want to see what Stone Glacier comes out with. I’m thinking they are going to be doing a wood stove compatible shelter.

I will not give up the tipi/Ti stove combo anytime soon. So many times I’ve enjoyed the warmth of a stove and the ability to dry gear. Currently using an old Seek Outside BCS and EdT Ti stove. Those things have been with me many elk and deer seasons in CO.

I would like to upgrade the tent to one with easier access around the stove. The stove is starting to show its age as well.

What's the total weight of your setup? The total weight of the tipi, inner nest, and pole I'm looking at is 4.9lbs. With the stove it's about 7.5lbs.

My tent is 3.4 (that’s the bag with everything in it) and the stove is 2.3lbs, again that’s total weight as it goes into my pack.

So can anyone tell me what happened to the guy that ran SeekOutside?

Something happened?

I think I read where someone died in the Ti Goat family business, not so long ago.

I didn't hear anything about Seek Outside.

Sorry, my bad. Wham Blasted used to post and made tents. That is who I was thinking of.

I just looked at Stone Glacier - nothing mentioned compatible with a stove. I need a 4 season with a stove.

More of a base camp but I believe the beginning of things to come.
https://www.stoneglacier.com/collections/tents/products/skydome-6p?utm_campaign=2020%20Product%20Launch%20%28PyumRf%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Stone%20Glacier%20Mailing%20List&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJydW5zbXRuczU5QG1zbi5jb20iLCAia2xfY29tcGFueV9pZCI6ICJIdzdkY0wifQ%3D%3D

That Stone Glacier is 31lbs. Probably nice in lieu of a wall tent at the truck.

Had a shall we say interesting night at 12,000 feet elev in Oct in CO a few years back with a tipi. In fairness, it was very exposed. Came down the mtn and bought a Hilleberg 3 person. If no wind forecast, tipi is nice, stove is great. If windy and no place to get out of it, Hilleberg for me. So in other words, buy both.

In time, that's probably exactly what will happen. Barring anything ground breaking, I'm probably going with either a hilleberg nallo 2 (maybe 3) or the kuiu storm star.

We use either a Hilleberg Nalo 3 GT or a Golite SL 4 modified to use 6” Ti Goat cylinder stove on our yearly Stone sheep hunts here in BC.
In 2016 we were camped high up on the side of a mountain with no cover and a storm hit over night. It was the worst storm I’ve ever experienced. We were using the Hilleberg. Extreme wind with driving snow. One corner of the tent pulled up in the wind in the middle of the night. We were trying to hold everything down from the inside in complete darkness. Finally got it restaked but it had badly bent one pole and luckily didn’t break it. It was below freezing but the humidity was so high and the wind so violent that it was a constant mist storm inside the tent. All we could do was zip up in our bags and shiver the night away hoping the tent would hold up. Our bags were very wet and we were very close to hypothermia. Glad it only lasted one night. Got up the next morning to snow everywhere. We decided to head out of the mountains and it snowed and rained for the next 5 days but without much wind.
Long winded story but I don’t think the Golite would have stood up to that, and the results could have been deadly. Ever since then I just can’t bring myself to take tipi and stove on a sheep/goat hunt.

A friend has one of those Hilleberg Nalo 3 tents, and I've examined it closely.

I thought the layout was really good, and the workmanship fantastic.

I was damn impressed.

Later, I had a chance to try to rip a piece of the special material the tent is made from in a store that had a display set up. Not easy to do, I can tell ya'!

John

At the prices they charge, it had better be fantastic. You pay for quality.