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
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.
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
We put our buddy heater on a 20lb
(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...