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    victor larivee
    BPL Member

    @vlarivee

    Locale: white mountains

    I just picked up an EMS tundra dome tent (3 person, 4 season) it's heavy alright but it was really cheap and I needed (always wanted) a 4 season tent. After I set it up I noticed that on one side of the floor on the inner tent there was ~12 diameter hole with material and a cinch line (like a stuff sack). I have no idea what this is used for. Any Clue??
    4 season tent floor

    #1940909
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    It's a cook hole.

    #1940910
    Bruce Tolley
    BPL Member

    @btolley

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    During really big storms, use it for cooking.

    During really big and long storms, if you forgot your relief bottle, as a latrine….you might want to also use your shovel.

    You should look up the article Jon krakauer wrote about waiting out a storm in a snow cave on Denali.

    #1940913
    victor larivee
    BPL Member

    @vlarivee

    Locale: white mountains

    Thanks I didn't know my new tent came with a kitchen

    #1940960
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Well, it could be used to put your stove on a base on the snow, that's true.
    But I am willing to bet it is really a poo hole for (really) bad weather.

    Cheers

    #1940969
    Stuart R
    BPL Member

    @scunnered

    Locale: Scotland

    Ha! it's for the trolls to escape…

    #1940977
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    It's a snow hatch. During a storm, you still need to melt snow for water, so this is the hatch to open up to the snow. I'll have to remember not to share a tent with Roger this way.

    –B.G.–

    #1940978
    Link .
    BPL Member

    @annapurna

    From backpacker.com

    Exoskeleton frame allows fly to be setup first protecting tent from elements and increase structural strength of tent. Main tent body clips to underside of fly to ease setup and allows fly to be used without tent body in winter fast light assalts. DAC NSC Featherlight poles. Vestibules. Two doors. External Guyout System. Cook hole in floor that zips open.

    #1940979
    Steven McAllister
    BPL Member

    @brooklynkayak

    Locale: Arizona, US

    It looks to me like it was designed for ice fishing, but also useful in ways others have stated.

    #1941007
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    > It's a snow hatch. During a storm, you still need to melt snow for water, so this is
    > the hatch to open up to the snow.
    Ah, but the EMS Tundra Dome has a small vestibule at the entry. Surely you would get your snow from in there?

    Cheers

    #1941052
    Paul McLaughlin
    BPL Member

    @paul-1

    I like all these answers. It can be multi-purpose! Just don't combine Roger's idea with Bob's.

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