Have spent many nights and weathered many storms in a Eureka Timberline. I agree. They do what they are suppose to do. I suggest going the extra mile and buying the vestibule shown in the photo.

There's a montage of four pics of my camp in my profile (search back a few pages). I still use my unique canvas wall tent, four piece wood floor, wood stove, and gas lantern. I sleep on a Gold Medal folding cot of hardwood and canvas probably made circa 1900. The canvas gave up the ghost a couple of years ago. Fortunately, I was working a fire camp north of here and they had bought a bunch of Chinese-made imitations of that model. The manufacturer opted for some cheap aluminum tubing instead of good old maple. They folded up without being folded up if you get my drift (obviously made for a lighter species of human than your average North American). The whole bunch went to the dump. I salvaged the nylon fabric from one of them and fitted it to my old cot (which weighs a ton by the way ... but hey it lasted more than a hundred years!). I also have grudgingly updated my camp gear with a small portable BBQ with adapter for larger conventional propane tanks. It's sometimes just too much hassle trying to keep the stove stoked and cooking something on it at the same time.

My wall tent is unique in that it has 4 foot white canvas sides with a treated canvas top. It's great because no fly is needed. Also not as stinky, dark, heavy, or fragile as a totally treated canvas tent. Extremely handy but extremely old. I wonder why that design never caught on? Canvas tents are a must if you expect to use a wood stove in them. The plastic tents get perforated by tiny sparks from the stove pipe.

I prefer liquid gas lantern. I'm regularly out hunting moose at my camp in minus twenty weather. The battery type lanterns take forever to get warmed up enough to produce useful light. Their batteries also run down quickly at those temps. Liquid gas lanterns are extremely dangerous and probably account for more camping fatalities than any other piece of gear. So I wouldn't recommend them to anyone else. But I was raised with them and know their gliches. As to the propane lanterns, they are fine except for getting rid of the empty canisters. The employees at the dumps outside the major national parks demanded combat pay because of all the somewhat empty canisters that were going off in the landfills. Most of the big parks have now invested in fancy recycling stations to drain the canisters. When my naptha gas cans are empty I simply flush them with soapy water and recycle them with the rest of my tin cans.

I got a new therm-a-rest this summer, and it was the best camping-related purchase. It's slightly bigger than a 1-litre Nalgene when rolled up, and is way more comfortable than my old sleeping pad. Makes camping much more fun when you can't feel a root in your spine.