Curious about how others approach establishing sleep spots when using a hot tent on top of snow, in an area where it's not permitted to cut boughs for the floor. Do you excavate or simply pack down the snow? We are new to hot tent camping on deeper snow (2 feet or deeper) and have found that despite doing our best to pack down snow before setup, we end up sliding off our sleeping spots as the exposed snow in the rest of the tent is heated and further packed as we go about our cooking, etc.
I suspect we could have probably spent more time stomping the area with our snowshoes, but wonder if it might be good to excavate instead, using snow only to level what we find beneath. Or maybe it's a daily maintenance kind of thing where we should be re-leveling snow under our sleep mats with the shovel?
I suspect we could have probably spent more time stomping the area with our snowshoes, but wonder if it might be good to excavate instead, using snow only to level what we find beneath. Or maybe it's a daily maintenance kind of thing where we should be re-leveling snow under our sleep mats with the shovel?
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