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In most of my camps lately there have been six or seven guys.  We make do with a small separate cook tent(maybe 8 by 10 or 8 by 12) and a large 17.5 foot square GP small canvas army tent.  It sleeps six or seven plus 2 or 3 dogs just fine.  We do not have a floor and use one large propane heater (canvas breathes just fine, you shouldn't have condensation issues) plus a couple of small ones.  But our tent also has a vent on top.  We haven't been using a wood or coal stove, but we intend to with our "new" tent.  Coal is supposed to be the best for heating with a stove.

If you are going to sleep on a coat, you will need extra blankets.  All that air underneath you will make it difficult to stay warm.  Put a wool blanket underneath you.  If you sleep on a pad on the ground you will be fine.  Some guys like to put straw bedding down on the ground, but most places we camp have lots of grass for padding when combined with a basic sleeping pad.

Last year's set up:

We couldn't get a trailer up to this spot, so we had to ride the horses in from the bottom of the mountain and unload the horse trailer onto several other trucks.  Large tents take a lot of room, so make sure you can get it up there if you are bringing a trailer.  They also take up a large footprint, so make sure you know of a place with room for your set up.

If you are going with wall tents use the woods stove.  Propane is kind of nice in the middle of the night but if you have a good stove, you can keep the fire going all night no problem.  We stay comfortable in ours in 10 below.  Wood for the stove is easy to replinish.  

Are you renting or buying? 

 brand new wall tents are a big investment but will last for years.  Mines been used for more than 30 years.  I'm starting to look at new ones but it still works just fine.  There are guys that rent equipment if you wanted to try it for a year first.   

Just read your post and it reminded me of a year we took kerosene for a heat source.Works great on low elevation but on the mountain we 'bout froze to death.(no oxygen)Burned like crap.The smell killed the hunt. Five days of hearing animals crashing threw the trees.

We set up camp at 10,500 ft on a mesa in CO and i all ways premake the coffee and leave it in the sleeping tent so in the morning i just fire it up and it quickly warms the tent up. As for heaters in the tent a few shots of wiskey works just fine, we usually dont have time to lounge in the tent were there to hunt elk. We take other small tents to put our gear in. I use large plastic tubs with lids for all supplies and close. I even rigged up a shower by using a bucket and a boat's sub pump and a 12volt truck battery, and small garden hose with nozzle. All's we did was warm the water at night on the fire pit.

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I hunted several times in Idaho, with parties of six or more a seperate cook tent is a must with room to eat in it is nice. You don't realize how much extra room is nice till everyone is trying to dry clothes out, and just get out of the foul weather when in camp. Its just my son and I this year so i'm not as worried about room.

A couple of things that nobody has mentioned yet is about 200' of rope and a couple of the blue plastiic tarps that are at least 20x20.  If it is good weather you can always hang one up and  do all your cooking under it instead of a tent.  Not to mention that it would be a nice place just to sit out of the sun or a light rain  storm and they even make a fairly good laundry area to dry out clothing.