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;TYPES OF LIGHT TENTS 105weather It can be warmed by radiation from a campfire in front. It will accommodate two men andtheir duffle. Of course it is only high enough tosit up in, but that is all the room one needs on suchtrips, and it is best for a cloth floored tent anyhow,for it balks muddy feet. However, I do not like asewed-in floor, for general camping. The reasonsare given at the end of this chapter.I have called this clever contrivance a " pockethouse."It deserves the name, being waterproof,wind-proof, bug-proof, ventilated, sheltering a spaceFig.(i"].— Snow Tent8 X 6 X 4-2 feet, and yet It rolls up into a 16 x 4-inchparcel, and weighs, with its rope, only 3^ pounds.Snow Tent.— This pattern (Fig. 67) gets itsname from the steepness of its slopes which makes itshed snow Instead of holding It. With front flapsspread as shown. It can be warmed by a fire In front.The back has a low w^all, and there Is a short ridgeotherwise Itsqualities are those of a semi-pyramidaltent. It Is made In sizes from 6^ x 6^ x 7^^-2>4 ft. to 9% X 9^ X 7^-2^ ft., and the weights,in different materials, run from 7^ to17 lbs.