Water in the Hot Tent- I need your help! plus a review of the Isola 4 tent and the Firehiking stove 

Carbon monoxide monitors need to be 1/2 way up your wall, not at the top. Hope someone shared that with you. We are new to your channel ages 78 and 71 and thoroughly enjoying watching your outdoor videos. Thank you for sharing them.

Wonderful video! You might consider tucking the snow skirts into the tent, then placing a large waterproof tarp/ground sheet over the entire floor, including skirts. Any water entering the space will go under the skirts, then under the ground sheet, and out the other side. There will be puddling in the low spots under the ground sheet, so keep any eye out, especially on the perimeter. Happy Holidays. Lou, in Colorado.

Wendy, you are full of surprises! I love your attitude! I showed this to the hubby. He can’t believe it! He has a hard time understanding my love of sleeping in a tent and having a fire😂 He doesn’t camp. I go by myself which he doesn’t like but it makes me happy. He would rather I go with a friend but it doesn’t usually work out. Plus I honestly love that alone time. Keep them coming! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!

Now I have some questions. When backpacking a person cooks outside away from the tent to avoid attracting animals. Why was it okay to cook inside the tent? Was it a location with no animals, or does the fire/stove keep them away? Bears are hibernating? Thank you for showing the stove setup.

Wendy ! Just found this channel and I am loving it. So nice to see a woman my age adventuring outdoors and doing a great job! Can’t wait for your next video. Take care!

It looks like a ground sheet of some sort is needed, perhaps fashion your bathtub style floor. Kodiak Canvas makes a high quality ground tart that is quite affordable (10'x10' is $40 USD). Or you could go with a silnylon ground sheet for weight savings, make sure it is rated for 1000mm or more, preferably 3000mm. Also, of course, location is very important. Good luck Wendy! It's good to see you out enjoying nature again!

Smoke detectors go up and carbon monoxide is low.

👍🤩💝Wow! You’re amazing. You’re truly an inspiration. I’m gonna be brave and independent like you when I’m older.

I’d suggest trenching around the outside of the tent, if not also adding a drainage channel. That seems to work for me, back in the days when I did a lot of tenting… in particular in West Coast rain forests!

Love your videos! So calming & peaceful thank you

come across your channel today, & enjoyed watching your videos. if you haven’t done it yet, i suggest you get a lightweight camp cot ie. naturehike. it it rains, you wont get wet. still have to watch more of your videos. i love camping, but i don’t like camping where there’s no mountains😂. i have to drive at least 4-5 hrs to get to the mountains. will be following your channel

I really like the stove. Nice 🔥

We have a hot tent, and had a similar experience at a rec site during an unexpected three of days of torrential rains in a week long camping trip. We stayed dry thanks to a large thick tarp on the ground (no stove because the fire ban was still on), but there was definitely water under the tarp, even with digging little trenches around the tent to try to guide the water away. Our future plan is to cut and tape the tarp to create a bathtub floor, although we're still deciding how to make that work with the stove - we might have to do just a half floor.

Great to see the pack up 😃

What if you bought a tarp that would fit inside as a ground sheet. Or cut one to size and use small stakes to keep in place. At least to cover your sleeping area.

What an experience you had. Maybe when you add a floor and tack it up on the inside, you will be dry. Hopefully. Love your little visits with us. See you next time.

Yup you definitely need to put a silnylon groundsheet down , I love your little stove , Thanks for showing us this was fun. look forward in seeing you out on another camp adventure their always very enjoyable. Merry Christmas Wendy and a New year full of adventures and good health.

Hi Wendy, just found you and your channel. Enjoying watching the travels and the tips! I too have never had a hot tent. I am very interested in this tent and your stove. Just looked on the website for the tent. Which pole did you choose and or which do you recommend? Also, do you mind sharing your height? I'm 5'4" and like to be able to stand up and move around in tents. Can you stand up in it? Curious what your thoughts are about the Fire Hiking tent with the mesh side to keep the no-seeums out!. I'm in the states and bugs are a concern even in the fall. Did you consider the Fire Hiking hot tent? Or perhaps a better question, what made you pick the Isola over other tents? Hope you don't mind me asking all of these questions! Look forward to watching more of your vids. Take care, KK

Wendy, if you are close to areas you want to tent at, maybe check them out after it has been raining a lot and mark where there are no small lakes or just take a picture and come back later. We live in a beautiful country. Enjoy.

Any sheet or carpet must not extend beyond the tent sides. Otherwise, you are running running water under the tent.

Nice, this was cozy. Thanks for having us along. Looks like you have some useful groundsheet suggestions, enjoy!

Most of your moisture comes from cooking and your body, you will need some ventilation while cooking and sleeping. Happens to me here and there, then I just open a little hole and all is well.

Loved this, Wendy!

👍Another great video thank you. The tent and stove look fantastic, and I'm sure all that's said below will sort the groundwater issue?

Looking forward to getting together. I want to know where you're going next with this setup.

Love your videos - have always been an outdoor biking kayaking kinda gal but aging has made me more reticent! So your vids are a great motivator to give it a go!! Many thanks🌷

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Once camped at Disney and came back to a flooded tent. Then we noticed what everyone did was string up a secondary tarp to any of the trees near by as a second cover. Sometimes that not always possible but I would get even thin painters plastic and drape it over the tent. Seems to work and it’s not heavy and cheap enough to throw away if you had to.

Good stuff Wendy! I love my Onetigris canvas hot tent tipi! There's just nothing like hot tenting... So relaxing once you get everything set up! 👍😊

Loved your video..great job

Wendy your just awesome hehhe biggest fan of yours

This is so cool! We had these in the Army, but I have never seen one for one or two people.

You may need a cot to get up off the ground. On a channel called Kent Survival he often uses tents with a separate floor.

So what are you using for a bathroom?

I love your channel!

Merry Christmas ⛄ 🎁

Very useful video and gives me some great ideas for extending my fishing season! Perfect warm up station!

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looks like you are haven a wonderful time! My wife and I gave up on the ground with mats and went to a cott...so much better then the ground and would protect you from the rain water on ground.

Great video wendy! Inspiring me to want to explore the great outdoors. You got a new subscriber!