Lindsay
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Registered: 01/19/09
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Hi all,
What a great event. I had a wonderful time and learned a lot. Already looking forward to next year. Thanks to all the volunteers.
In describing the event to some of my friends, I told them that I took 9 hours from when I left Melgeorges until my departure from the tipi for an awsome average of 4 1/3 mph. That fantastic display of speed moved me from 7th to 4th which says a lot about the difficulty of the race.
I spent a brief time in the tipi and I have a suggestion that you might consider. There was a shelter about 400 yards before the tipi and it occured to me that it could make a more expansive and comfortable shelter by using the same poles and canvas to make a lean to attached to it. Those guys were terrific but it was quite cramped. Let me know what you think.
Charlie, if you're thinking Alaska in 2011, I think we should plan on 270 or at least 200 ( back to Melgeorges next year.
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charlie
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MOCKBA
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By now I read too many epic stories about the chilly discomfort in the teepee, even one amazing psychedelic tale where this thing was elevated to into a symbol of all cold misery in the world.
So I guess it really was cold in there. And it probably shouldn't be that way?
I've spent so many nights in the teepee-shaped group tents in the old days ... it was always toasty inside if we were in the timber country because we would have a light stove with a collapsible smokepipe (either hung to the tent or with folding legs). Even above timberline ... the comfort was worth hauling a few extra pounds of chopped wood. You can clearly see stovepipe at this shot below, only no more smoke cuz we were already breaking camp and the fire's just been put out. (That's Akkem Glacier under the North Face of Siberia's highpoint)
Is a portable wood stove something to consider for a future-seasons teepee? Not sure if they are even making them here, but there're quite a few brands available in the old country ... like this one (depending on metal type it could be as light as 5 lbs for some $200 or as heavy as 12 lbs for half the price ... other make even lighter and pricier ^%*^$ titanium sheet hanging stoves). Dimensions in mm:
http://www.equip.ru/product/winter/text/pechka.html
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RipVanWinkle
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Here's what I'd do: Kind of a like a portable Skwentna Roadhouse but in Minnesota. Find a nice RV like below, go park it in the wide spot on the nice road just a bit past TeePee Mountain, and PARTY! Actually, it makes a lot of sense as one would have access to any emergency services needed, easy volunteer access, easy to find, maybe cell phone service, maybe warm, maybe smoke free, and maybe someone could really do this. And I'll bet that volunteer family would be back every year!
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mikeriemer
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MOCKBA,
There are indeed collapsible, portable wood burning stoves available here. In fact one of the producers is an Arrowhead sponsor.
Check it out.
http://www.snowtrekkertents.com/
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Lins
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hey! hold on.... the picture has changed!!.... this morning, i saw in the roadhouse a wonderful lasagna in the table!
(i strongly support changing the tipi for the roadhouse)
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MOCKBA
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Thanks Kid, I guess I really needed to google it harder 
I liked Kifaru's largest-size model so far - there are plenty mfrs on this list but most models are either too heavy or too puny:
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001301.php
I really wouldn't mind cosponsoring a purchase BTW - or I'm sure Pierre can build a superb stove himself, ain't like a gun lock or a grenade thrower 
Rip - I appreciate your sarcasm (and I think you can spray paint the snow green too  ). But ... a teepee heated by open fire is so "un-backwoodsmanlike", it's a shame. Have you ever visited with the tribesmen in their teepees in winter? The reindeer herders switched to metal stoves many decades ago. The open-fire teepees are only left for the tourist shows these days ... and the reindeer people are not the kind which will ever let any good tradition lapse.
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