Great overview, I learned a few things.

A few more tips especially for single-wall tents:

• Avoid contact with wet tent walls to keep you and your gear dry. You might need a shelter with more headroom and interior space, walls that don’t impede movement, and doors designed to reduce contact getting in and out. Or even a double-walled tent.
• Think of your tent as a clean sanctuary, and avoid bringing any mud inside. It spreads rapidly and makes life much less pleasant.
• Keep a pair of warm, dry, clean sleeping socks as dry and clean as possible. You’ll be much happier.
• Pitch your tent to promote wind flowing through – aim your biggest vents into the wind.
• Wipe condensation off the inner walls of single-wall tents with a sponge or microfiber pack towel. Be sure to squeeze excess water completely outside the tent.
• Wet gear in a vestibule still adds moisture inside many tents.
• Avoid steaming food or drink inside the tent. Cook, eat, and drink hot liquids elsewhere if possible, like under another shelter or tree. Consider a group cooking/hangout tarp.
• Don’t freak out about condensation on your down sleeping bag, quilt, or puffy. Most modern, high-quality down gear is very water-resistant. It’s still better to keep stuff as dry as possible.
• If you hear or see a “slow” leak – don’t roll over and go back to sleep, deal with it now! Slow leaks all night long can create big puddles and problems.
• Before you pack up, wipe moisture off your gear with a sponge or pack towel. Packing wet gear only makes it wetter by forcing water into previously dry places.
• Learn weather patterns, and time your tent setup and breakdown for breaks in the rain. On one trip, everyone else put up tents in the rain as soon as we got to camp. I knew the rain would stop for a while just before sunset, so I waited.

— Rex

Avoid steaming food or drink inside the tent. Cook, eat, and drink hot liquids elsewhere if possible, like under another shelter or tree. Consider a group cooking/hangout tarp.

Could be difficult in a howling storm, couldn’t it?
My wife and I always cook and eat and wash up inside the tent. It is always amusing to watch the steam head out of the downwind vent or window.

What to do in a howling storm in the snow when you need to go to the loo? Many is the time when venturing outside the tent in our dry clothing in Alpine conditions was simply not a realistic option. As I did mention in ‘When Things Go Wrong’, I just dug a deep hole in the snow inside the vestibule, and then filled it in. There was no smell at all.

Cheers

That is why a tarp is so good……set up tarp, get under the tarp with your rain gear on. Remove your wet clothes etc and then put the groundsheet and get on the groundsheet and unpack….

I wish Ponchos had pockets to keep the tarp which can then eliminate removing the backpack and retrieving the tarp:-) and next time, I probably would keep the backpack under the tarp while I setup the tarp in rain – that is another way to keep the backpack dry while settinp up the tarp. I didn’t do that last time….

I have an MLD Grace Tarp Duo in DCF.   9.5’ ridge line, 8.5’ across the front, and 7.5’ across the rear.

The Durston X tent would be good in the rain.  Clever design to provide headroom to minimize touching inside clondensation