|
Provision should be made, either by the tent design or by zippers on the tent floor, to cook on snow rather than on the floor itself. Water is then available inside the tent, and a toppling pot of soup is not a disaster. The tent must be made of lightweight fabric inorder to come within the rigid weight restrictions required for comfortable ski mountaineering. Fabrics weighing two to four ounces per square yard have tensilestrengths of forty to eighty pounds per inch and in aproperly designed tent are rugged enough for the mostviolent storms. Excellent lightweight nylon fabrics weighing from 11/2 to 21/2 ounces per square yard are now being made. Coated fabrics have not proved acceptable owing to the excessive condensation on tent walls, which cannot be effectively controlled by ventilation, particularly in stormy weather. |
|||
|
