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Here's our "tarp tent" started with a 30x40 poly tarp and ended up with a 17x18 tent with nice 3' sod cloths and no zippers but rigged up with overlapping folds that were way tight! We fit 8 people with ease (on the ground -- no cots) plus room for the stove kitchen/firewood pile and an empty spot right by the door --- anyone there would have gotten trampled anyway so best left vacant.
Below: Inside view from the "door" sorry about the mess. Note the cylinder stove and the "arab tent" interior poles to help with snow and/or tension the tarp so it doesn't "flap" in the wind.
Below: Sitting in the "kitchen"! Your choice MRE's (military ready to eat) or Snickers. Unless you are really hungry for fat and salt, I'd recommend the Snickers. Note the carbon monoxide detector perched in the top of the propane cylinder.
Below: Milling about before supper is served.
Below: Taking advantage of mother nature --- trees are useful in many ways.... gun rest, saddle "tree", pack rest, clothes closet....
Below: In order left to right:
Panniers, Top Cover, Lashing Rope (Lashing Cinch), 5x5 head, 4 quarters and backstraps in game bags....
Home sweet home away from main camp.... BUT I'll always associate it with tremendous amounts of physical exertion because it was not far from here that we got into the elk and THAT is when the fun ends and the W-O-R-K begins! With the passage of time it becomes a "labor of love" but there are definitely moments (exhaustion).
EKM