Best tent for a long fire season in Oregon?

[DemoTex]

I'm thinking I need a support tent at the Lookout (some visitors might not like sleeping in the tower when TSTMs are around and when I have to stay up spotting lightning strikes).

So like everything, I research the issue to death. I'm convinced now that I should buy a tipi (tee-pee). That would be a nice semi-permanant addition to my USFS living space.

Cabela's has a cheap knock-off, there is the ubiquitous cowbow (or "range") tipi, and then there is the real thing!

One of the best looking tipis is custom made in Bend(Oregon) by Nomatic Tents ( http://www.tipi.com/?source=google&gclid=COeoz9nb-5kCFRuU7QodnUNRGg ). I'd love to have a 14' tipi set off from the lookout. If they would deliver and set up at East Butte, and either ship or store the poles at the end of the fire season (if I like this gig, I'll be back), I'd be in the game.

What do you think?



One of my all-time favorite tipis.


Love the Shaman too.


This one, too!

BTW: Here are MY digs for the fire season:

[Stephanie]

1. I'd like to book a reservation for August

Will you be serving breakfast?

[DemoTex]

7. Big breakfasts served at the lookout in August

Juice & Fresh fruits
Country sausages (from Harralson, Georgia, and Fulshear, Texas .. flown in FEDEX (arrangements made))
Applewood bacons (local)
Calloway Gardens grits with pecorino cheese (Calloway Gardens)
Sliced tomatoes with basil (at the lookout)
Omlettes/eggs with spinach and goat cheese (and anything else!)
Fresh berries
Yogurt
Granola
Pots of French Pressed coffee

[cliffordu]

13. What time do you want me there???

[virginia mountainman]

2. Get ya a yurt

http://www.blueridgeyurts.com/





They can be as fancy, or as plain as you want...Big or Small!!

[MissB]

6. Great minds and all that :)

[DemoTex]

9. Way too sessile.

Great for my parcel of land for a long term .. but I'm talking a small plot for six months, at the most.

[XemaSab]

10. Yurts were originally designed for easy transport

They're the teepee of central Asia.

[Trocadero]

11. are you worried about bears? I'll stay in the tower, thank you

[XemaSab]

12. My uncle was a forester

and I am a biologist.

Bears are not a fear; fires are.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Cool job. Cool tipis! nt

[Arctic Dave]

4. Nice view. The tipi idea sounds like fun.

[MissB]

5. I've stayed in one of those before

The fire lookout, that is. You can rent some of those-- and the decks are the best. Or the walls of windows.

Have you considered a yurt? Seriously though- I'd think the guests would prefer to stay up high :)

[DemoTex]

8. You are well travelled .. indeed!

I had rented several fire lookouts for the summer before an old USFS application payed off! Ended up, I got called by several USFS fire districts. I took the country club lookout in Oregon (Hell .. I'm 61).

I considered yurts. Too permanent.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

14. A nomex one.