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« on: January 26, 2011, 11:59:17 am »
An 8' wide tent is a little narrow for back wall stove placement. However, with the 10' length, if you push the sleeping area all the way to the front to the wall with the door in it, you will actually be sleeping forward of the stove not along side of it. That would leave area on both sides of the stove for gear, etc. I have not tried this size of a tent myself with this set up, but am playing with a prototype 9x9' EXP Crew set up this way. It seems to work very well.
I would agree that this set up gets to be a little more work and problematic on a deep snow pack. Not that it can't be worked with. The main advantage of this placement is convenience for 2 people not having to crawl over each in the sleeping area of the tent. For camp efficiency I still think front stove placement is perhaps the best.
There is definitely winter campers who prefer the rear wall placement and there is nothing wrong with it. A person just has to decide what system will work best for their needs.
If you do make a decision and don't like it the worst that it could be for you is the cost of moving the stove jack to a different location and looking at a patch where the old one used to be.
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