Pop Up Soft Side Campers in the Winter
Could anyone who has owned one of these tell me how well they stay warm in the wintertime.
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SidecarFlip wrote:
A HS is superrior but they are also much heavier. We lay in foil-bubble-foil between the inner canvas window closures and the rain flaps. That insulates the canvas pretty well.
Most HS TC's have little insulation in the sidewalls anyway (unless specified at build time as a cold weather camper and the walls (between the inner and outer aren't very thick anyway (maybe an inch of dead space) so insulating isn't much, no matter what.
I agree that there is not a lot of insulation in the hard side TC's but I have to take issue with them being much heavier. I just looked up the dry weight of your pop up (1978lb) and a similar length Northern Lite(2150lb). very similar in weight and the northern Lite had a larger fridge plus other standard features that your pop up did not have. Yes, there are hard sides that are over 5000lbs with triple slides etc. but when you compare apples to apples, the two styles of TC's are not that different in weight. My Outfitter 9.5' had a ready to camp weight of 3250lbs. Not a lite TC.
Of course COG, less wind resistance, etc are some of the reason folks choose pop up TC's.
Dave
