Hot Tenting

Hot tenting… Sounds interesting? No, it’s not about getting steamy in a tent with your festival fling, or lighting up with all the doors shut… Hot tenting is the latest craze when it comes to tent living and winter camping.

Hot tenting involves having heating inside the tent - usually in the form of a wood burner stove. Why should camping adventures be restricted to the warmer months?

How Does Hot Tenting Work?

The wood burner stove sits inside the tent, with a chimney pipe that leads outside the tent through the ceiling canvas. The heat resistant flashing kit is fixed into the canvas to ensure that the chimney flue can leave the tent safely, without heat escaping. Stock up the firebox with firewood and you’re good to go!

Canvas tents breathe easily compared to plastic or other Nylon tent materials, and don’t carry those same fire risks (*Note: Please use wood burner stoves responsibly!!*). This means that you are much less likely to have moisture building up inside the tent, and you stay both warm and dry inside.

When you’re ready to go home, the stove and chimney pipe can be packed back down to the size of the firebox for easy portability.

Why Try Hot Tenting?

No more need to store the tent away through the winter months - you can enjoy camping all year round!

Just think - A warm place for shelter, regardless of the temperature outside. You can do all of your cooking straight from the stovetop, without having to brave the elements. No more cooking in the cold or rain! Late night Milo’s made without leaving the comfort of the tent…

You can dry out any wet clothes and shoes next to the wood burner, and enjoy watching the logs burning on the fireplace at the end of the day... Talk about ambiance!

We’ve tried and tested this ourselves. The Nomadic hub is based in Taupo, NZ - known in the North Island for its near arctic temperatures and those southerly winds off Mt Ruapehu!! We get the occasional winter night of temperatures in the negatives.

The team here at Nomadic put the Winnerwell Medium Nomad Woodburner Stove in a Canvascamp patrol Pro tent to the test in the middle of winter this year. It was a fantastic experience, nestled in the native bush, able to cook and keep our tent warm. Temperatures outside in the car were coming up at -2 degrees, while inside a comfy 20 degrees.

Nomadic offers a range of wood burner stoves, flue pipes, and fixing kits, as well as many tents to go with.

Give hot tenting a go for yourself and send us through your cosy hot tenting pics!