| These tents are set up in the main base. They come in
three different sizes, 8-man, 12-man and 20-man. The
20-man is very rare, the most usual being the 8-man. The
overall design is roughly the same for all the different
sized tents. They are made of sturdy green canvas, have a
small opening as a door (far right in the picture), a
ventilation rim at the top and a hole for the chimney.
Inside the tent is a wood powered stove, which can heat
the tent to above freezing in the winter. In the ceiling
are ropes so you can hang up your wet gear (mainly socks
and mittens) so they dry during the night. Inside you
also have a kerosene powered lantern used for lighting.
Setting up the tent in the winter takes several hours,
since you first have to dig away all the snow covering
the area where you intend to erect your tent. To top it
off you place a large camoflage net over the tent, which
you support with branches, so it doesn't look like a tent
draped in camo nets. |
