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Lemieux
11/09/2013 03:44PM
  
Thanks for the update Dan!


Have you had issues with small burn holes from burning embers landing on the tent?


The WT Hexagon looks like a great tent with ample floor space and headroom.
 
Lemieux
11/09/2013 09:15AM
  
Anyone have experience with this tent?

Pros?
Cons?

CCS T Hexagon
 
DanCooke
11/09/2013 09:29AM
  
Attached are links to two different trip reports that Uncle Moose wrote up where the tent was used.


Shell Lake


Clearwater Trip


There are only a few other BWCA Forum infrequent readers that have used the structure.
 
DanCooke
11/09/2013 05:43PM
  
If you burn paper you will end up with holes in nylon tarps and tents. It lofts before it is done burning. I had no holes for 5 seasons, Then I loaned out and it came back with two significant burn holes. It all depends on the care you take in not burning paper and garbage in the stove.I have used a stove with a baffle all the time, as did friends who borrowed it without any holes. not sure what stove and what care was exercised by the person I will not borrow out any of my gear to again.


Some one recently asked me about our leans by a fire and this was my response. It is true for all nylon shelters.


Sparks. All materials will get a hole in them if the embers thermal mass has has enough energy to melt or char the material. Cotton Chars @308° F while nylon melts around 380°F, but because nylon is so much lighter it takes less thermal mass of an ember to reach that failure temperature. A nylon structure made by anyone will most likely get holes in them from a fire that is releasing flying embers. The lighter the nylon the more holes.


At the winter camping symposium I saw wood stoves in tents as small as a Eureka 4 man timberline.
 
orion55397
12/04/2013 11:30AM
  
Yes, two trips so far.


Honeymoon last year and a solo a month ago.


No cons, Pros....low mass and bulk, big headroom, bright inside shelter, and fast heat up time. No burn holes, running a baffled stove, flue damper, and 12'+ flue....no spark arrestor. no paper...I grew up operating woodstoves.