Back to Cloudcroft a week later. A bit different this time around.
Posted Apr 14, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC
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How was the tent? Warm?
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Been having a great time. Picked it up in 2017 and have had zero issues. Use it every chance I get. This night was the end of a two week trip hitting half a dozen spots with a short stop in Vegas (work, unfortunately).
Plenty warm, but I have a 20 degree bag inside. Temp was 28 when I woke up so I imagine it was mid twenties over the evening. The tent fabric is thick and blocks any wind with the windows zipped up. It has a solar powered exhaust fan to clear out any condensation.
Coldest I've been was a -14F Montana night and I'll admit to wearing my down jacket inside my bag.
The foam mattress is comfortable, but not the best insulator. Any colder than this you start to feel it in your back. I break out my Klymit insulated pad in those cases. Baroud makes what they call a comfort pad that goes underneath that is suppose to help with that. There is also a kit that insulates the walls, but I like to focus on having a good bag to keep warm and leave the tent to keep me dry and out of the wind.
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Took u/WolverineBJJ’s advice and went back through Cloudcroft on my return trip to check out the very cool Bluff Springs waterfall. Was running out of daylight so grabbed the first place I could find just southwest of the spring down one of the forest service spur roads. Previous day was nice, but was really coming down by the time I left. +1 for quick RTT tear down and not having to pack up a ball of mud ground tent.