Um. No. Intrinsically a yurt is a round pole-less tent. The design comes from Mongolia. It has a wooden lattice wall (think expandable baby-gate) (and has remained a design feature for more than 10 centuries, to which curved rafters are attached like wheel spokes. In engineering-structural terms its a lot stronger than conventional tents, (for living in mongolia it had to be) and lent a lot to the modern dome tents. Traditionally it was felt covered with an outer, oiled covering - and as someone pointed out dark and smelly. The modern ones http://www.coloradoyurt.com/new2007/home.php incorporate windows and doors and a transparent dome, and no felt. The design is traditional - so they'll survive high winds and snow. But I was just not sure how warm they would be in winter - and in summer.
(assumes hurt mein)Sniff. Poor me. You think I am doing something crazy again, don't you O'mike. Me wot never stepped one micron beyond the bounds of the ordinary. Building is going to take some time, and these go up relatively fast and appear relatively roomy and comfortable and will allow us a living-space we can afford for me to work in while we build. I think they may be bigger and/or more comfortable than a caravan or a shed and cheaper to transport.
Actually the council seems quite sensible in their rules - trying to keep the place from being screwed up especially by holiday-makers and the same time flexible about residents -especially rural designated areas putting up quite large structures. A yurt is defined as a tent, so sidesteps a lot of council rules.
I have no experience with the Colarado Yurts you linked to.
However, in canoeing circles in Europe it is very fashionable at the moment to show up with one of these: http://www.tentipi.se/index.php?id=36 , usually in combination with a tent stove.
I don't have one myself because I prefer to travel a bit lighter. But the tents are very roomy and rugged. I read about a community in England where everyone lives in tents like these year-round somewhere on songofthepaddle
Unknown if it was that company, but a yurt was lived in for 5 years near Lake City, Colorado, while a permanent dwelling was constructed; the people seemed happy with it. And Lake City gets approx 83 inches of snow a year.
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Nope. Only a traditional felt Mongolian one. It was kind of smelly and musty, although that may have also described me at the time.
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but it is generally taken to mean a tent, and I am only interested in the tent kind.
yurt
yurt [yurt]
(plural yurts)
n
Asian tent: a collapsible circular tent of skins stretched over a pole frame, used by Central Asian nomadic peoples
[Late 18th century. Via Russian yurta from, ultimately, Turkic jurt .]
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However, in canoeing circles in Europe it is very fashionable at the moment to
show up with one of these: http://www.tentipi.se/index.php?id=36 ,
usually in combination with a tent stove.
I don't have one myself because I prefer to travel a bit lighter. But
the tents are very roomy and rugged. I read about a community in England
where everyone lives in tents like these year-round somewhere on songofthepaddle
Tentipi is the most famous and most expensive producer. There are cheaper
ones too, Helsport for example. You should be able to find some discussions
in the gear forum on http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3
Hope that helps,
Juergen
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