Accomodation for this event

Are we still in the outdoor tents this event? >_<

as in the cooold?

Aieeee

Woman up, toots. 

Parkas can be a dancer accessory.

im so glad i play a barbarian and can layer up with fur!

im so glad i play a barbarian and can layer up with fur!

My mother just bought me a pretty epic fur vest that is filled with barbarian goodness, but makes for a very nicely (and civilized ) "fur-lined" look when flipped inside out.

Just to watch myself type it again, from the skin out:  silk, light wool, coton (if it is not raining) and a cloak will keep you warm - period.  If you still feel cold, throw in a fleece.

Wool socks.

I wore but a LS silk T, and a cotton shirt with a lightweight cloak and was warm except when I dashed out to save the stray McBane or Yahtzi in my nightshirt and boots.

There are rooms in the Inn just get them fast and early

The rooms in the Inn are always overcrowded, with the small 6 bunk room routinely having 10-12 people staying in it.  They are no fun whatsoever.

I like what Mr. DOBA did one wintery event... he had a tent with a space heater.

I didn't have a space heater (though my CPAP looks like one), I just have a REALLY good sleeping bag... I was actually so warm I was sweating slightly in the back... imagine my surprize when I woke up to the snowpacolypse!  Climing up out out of the tent that morning through the snow wasn't terribly fun, neither was getting the stakes out.

Nowadays I live in the mages guild... sure I'm going to get killed one morning or evening walking to and from it (almost did once, got 4 minutes into it when someone found a healing salve on me), but that's why I have my scroll making book constantly copying invisibility scrolls... helps for Sac events.

I WAS thinking of enclosing a pavillian with burlap and putting a space heater in the center for the church of Chronicler... but I never got around to it.

Which tent brand did you use?  The more and more I think about this, and knowing a majority of our winter events are usually at Sac and the large numbers of players we have coming in... I may want to try the tent idea.

Anyone here with lots of camping experience care to comment on preferred tent brands, ease of set-up, waterproofing, and thermal/warmth retention?

chech this place out we use it for my rev-war re-anactments www.tentsmiths.com have all differnt types.

Awesome tents at Tentsmiths!  If you want a more contemporary tent, I'd recommend checking out Campmoor and Sierra Trading Post's catalogs/websites; they both carry good quality tents, and STP has good buys as well.  Also, Eureka tents (in Eureka NY) has a "blow-out" end of season/seconds sale in late January?  We got a great 4-person, 3-season "second" tent there for almost 1/2 price and all that was wrong with it was they replaced a zipper pull and that made it a second!?  I'd tent to stay away from tents at Wally  World or K-Mart, unless it was a brand name, like Coleman.

If worse comes to worse and we are at SAC this winter, I will be tenting in the aforementioned tent with an air mattress.  With a sleeping bag  on top of the mattress, two sets of doubled flannel sheets (me between the pair) two wool blankets and the option of an afgan of concealment, I know I can handle below freezing weather.  If the temperature really plummets, there are the two deer hides - quite warm.  Room for three others.