awbrown
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Agree. If you camp on a lake, you take the chance of dealing with slush. I typically don't set up on the lake. I prefer being back in the woods and out of the wind.
Winter tents don't typically have floors. In remote areas, where allowed, winter tenters will pack down the snow and line the floor area with spruce boughs. The boughs make a floor that allows anything spilled to pass through and any snow brought into the tent will melt through with the stove heat. In addition, you don't want your stove setting on a floor for fire purposes. If you are in the BWCA you can't use spruce boughs for floors, so you need a tarp, or tyvek, or matting of some sort to make a floor.
A typical winter tent will have a "border" at the tent bottom, made from some sort of water proof material. This is intended to be placed outside the tent and snow packed on top of it.
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