re: Do you camp?

Try a frost bib. They’re easy to DIY. You just hang it around your neck and the condensation/frost from your breath collects there. You’ll never eliminate it completely, but this helps.

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How do you deal with condensation? My one man is always soaked/iced on the inside on cold mornings

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Open all the vents/doors possible. Got to get that moisture out.

A tarp is much better in wintertime from my experience. Even then condensation is a problem at freezing temps.

Frost bibs help as stated.

Camp naked

Get you a tent with more vents baw. Tents, sleeping bags, and packs are worth whatever you pay and more.

shite this is a high dollar super lightweight mountain climbing rig. I thought I wouldnt have to worry about shite like this.

It needs an exhaust fan in the vent

General comment-

Sleeping in a tent is alot easier if you've worn yourself out all day hiking, hunting, fishing, drinking, or all-of-the-above, and you have a full belly before laying down.


For me, the worst part is waking up, cold, everything is cold, my clothes are cold, etc. I even sleep with next morning's clothes in the bottom of my mummy bag, but it's still cold. I guess I just have less tolerance for discomfort as I get older. I'm also not a morning person, in general. I am one of those people that simply wakes up aggravated for some reason.

My single wall tent has condensation like a mofo. Just for the hell of it, I made this little portable exhaust fan thats powered by my USB charger. I tried using it in the mid teens while camped next to a small steam and it didn’t work at all haha. I just carry a really absorbent hand rag and wipe it down in the morning

You can’t fight dew point man. The moisture in your breath raises humidity in the tent. Driving dew point higher. You may need to keep the inside of tent 20 degrees or more higher than normal outside dew point to keep things dry.

Tonight Baton Rouge area dew point is 49. So you may need to warm tent into the upper 60’s to keep moisture from condensing. Now sometimes a candle can help with both drying the air and raising the temps. But full ventilation is best.

Really there is no point in a tent when you don’t need to keep mosquitoes away. A tarp and bivy sack would be a better combo.

Haven’t camped in years. Went a handful of times growing up, but never had a friend group that was involved in such as I got older and into adulthood.

My dad and brother and I always hunted and were in a deer camp all through those years, but it was only 15 minutes away, so we never stayed at the camp house or anything.

I’ve always loved hunting and being in the outdoors, but just never really camped. If I’m lucky enough to have a son, I hope to get him interested in both.

104 g. By no means ultralight. I really just wanted to try it for the sake of science.

Someone else is correct, you cant beat the dewpoint. However, the humidity of the outside air should be much lower than inside the tent with all of my breath hanging around. My goal was to get the humidity in the tent as close to outside air as possible.

When I sized this thing I was pretty technical. I remember looking at average volume of a person's lungs, moisture content, inhalations while sleeping, sleep time, etc. I wanted to turn the air over at least 2-3x more than my exhaust breath rate.

I really think it would've worked if I hadn't slept next to a stream and was more diligent about setting it up. I was cold as shite when I installed it and only wanted to get under my quilt. I may try it again.

It was really just for shits and giggles. Wiping my tent down with a rag is much easier and less weight.