Curious if anyone has every used a yurt as a base camp. What are the ups and downs?
OK i give what the heck is a yurt?
Well i just did a google. Cool these yurts are.
Never been in one.
Yurts could be considered kind of a mongolian tepee.
Spent 4 days comfortably in a yurt in below zero weather in upper Minnesota two years ago. Loved it. I think they would make fine basecamps. Our stay was extremely comfortable in the snow and wind.
Here is a link to one of many commercial yurt manufacturers:
http://coloradoyurt.com/yurts/yurt_101/yurt_history/index.php
Google yurts and you'll get a dozen or more companies that make them.
Stayed in one at a campground but never hunting camp. It was nice and warm and seemed to be well put together. I did not know they were mobile. I would bet they take up more space than a canvas wall tent.
We stayed in one on the Oregon Coast a few years ago. They were of modern construction though, so really just an 8 sided cabin. Probably would have been more rustic had they been made out of Yaak Hides !!!
my pottery studio is a 30' yurt.
Hunted out one for 3 years and loved it. Very comfortable.
(http://coloradoyurt.com/new2007/img/med/yurt_history_2.jpg)
I went to the link posted above, and man some of the yurts are nicer than my house !! If a person had some hunting property that he wanted to spend more time at, what a great alternative and I bet they go up fairly quick.