Everything you need to know about keeping your tent dry when camping in the winter.
Winter camping outings create a few challenges of their own, one of which is controlling moisture in your tent, typically brought into play from the amount of moisture in the air. Upon hitting a cooler surface that warmer moisture vapor cools and turns from vapor to liquid in the form of condensation on that surface. It doesn’t take long for that humidity to dampened everything inside your winter tent shelter.
Typically moisture builds up inside your tent from several sources: cooking in your vestibule, tracking in snow, tucking your head inside your sleeping bag and closing up your vents to retain heat all contribute to excess moisture in your tent. That moisture that can condense on the walls and ceiling to flake or rain down upon you as you move around inside.
Here are some main sources of moisture in a tent and ways to lessen its dampening affects on…READ MORE
by Tom Watson
