I finally got to try out my Nuway propane stove in my snowtrekker tent last weekend. The Nuway is an American made propane stove that vents to the outside of the tent like a wood stove.
For the temperatures we were at, it was pretty good. It got to be -5 C overnight, and the little stove kept it fairly steady in the 9 x 11 snowtrekker. Not wood heat warm, but warm enough to sit around in your shirt.
Good things: Easy, convenient, no stoking the stove at night, doesn't take up much room. Even perked my big coffee pot in the morning.
Bad things: -5 C is probably the bottom temperature limit for the stove in a snowtrekker my size. Also, a 20 pounder lasted about 20 hours on the highest setting, so a few days would get fairly pricey.
Overall impression.....it's a cool little thing for truck camping, when hauling a couple of 20 pound propane bottles is no big deal. Great for shoulder season, but probably not very warm for real winter temps. Pretty much perfect for a couple of nights of partridge hunting. If I go moose hunting two weeks from now, I will probably take the wood stove.
For the temperatures we were at, it was pretty good. It got to be -5 C overnight, and the little stove kept it fairly steady in the 9 x 11 snowtrekker. Not wood heat warm, but warm enough to sit around in your shirt.
Good things: Easy, convenient, no stoking the stove at night, doesn't take up much room. Even perked my big coffee pot in the morning.
Bad things: -5 C is probably the bottom temperature limit for the stove in a snowtrekker my size. Also, a 20 pounder lasted about 20 hours on the highest setting, so a few days would get fairly pricey.
Overall impression.....it's a cool little thing for truck camping, when hauling a couple of 20 pound propane bottles is no big deal. Great for shoulder season, but probably not very warm for real winter temps. Pretty much perfect for a couple of nights of partridge hunting. If I go moose hunting two weeks from now, I will probably take the wood stove.
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