Hi Everyone, I'm looking at CVT RTT's and specifically their more rugged "summit" line. I'll need to sleep a family of 4 1/2 (2 adults, 2 kids and a doggo). It's looking like the Mt.Rainier Extended Summit is perfect to fit all the humans and the K9 can potentially sleep in the annex. My question for any CVT tent owners. @Stefanie Cavanaugh maybe? - How do the CVT's sleep in cold or snowy weather? I don't think I'll be able to fit the whole fam into an AutoHome or similar hard-shell. The kids are 4 and 7 years old so I don't think I'd be able to convince them to sleep down in the annex just yet. Does anyone run a little heater in colder weather in a CVT tent? Jason over at Primal has a good video on the Mr.Heater. Seems like a necessity for cold weather camping with little ones.
Cheers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2uriyGjpUA
(didn't finish my post. Tried to do it on my phone and had some technical issues.)
As I was saying: We put our buddy heater on a 20lb tank and ran it in our 4-person ground tent last year at Yellowstone (second week of October). Outside it was in the 20's, but nice an warm in the tent.
Here is a comparison of the Buddy and the Cupid...
We put our buddy heater on a 20lb
We have run our Buddy Heater in our James Baroud XXL before going to bed and/or reading. It's a little big for that, so I just bought a Kovea Cupid Amazon), which is a lot smaller. I just got it yesterday, and it throws off a lot of heat. We are heading to Glacier NP the last two weeks of this month, and having heat will be important.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N4Qdetailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Good luck keeping everyone warm!
Craig
A friend of mine did an experiment where he put a larger heater (8ish inch diameter burner on a 20lb bottle) in his annex overnight last winter. It was low 20s outside and 80 in the the top portion of his tent.