Last winter, I dragged a friend out for a three-day test in the Cascades with an 8-pound synthetic hot tent and a borrowed wood stove. We hit 14°F overnight, and by morning the inside of that tent was 58°F with no condensation pooling on the ceiling. That trip kicked off our team's deep dive into […]

I have spent countless freezing nights in canvas tents testing wood burning tent stoves, and I can tell you the difference between a great stove and a mediocre one comes down to about 30 degrees of comfort. When temperatures drop below freezing, the right portable wood stove does not just warm your tent. It dries […]

Nothing ruins a winter camping trip faster than a freezing tent at 2 AM. I learned this the hard way during a late-season backpacking trip in Colorado, shivering through a night that dropped to 12 degrees Fahrenheit. That experience sent me down the path of hot tent camping, and the single most important safety component […]