Here's a good example. It is very rare that it snows here in the desert SW, at least here in my town, and we actually got a snow storm last night. I put up my tent, that I thought Id be able to use in winter since it has pretty steep side walls, and well this is a picture of it this morning. I guess Id have to wake up and shake the poles every so often.


Its a Eureka Zeus 3 that I use when I take the kids/family. I think the side flaps caught to much snow even though I didn't stake them out like I would on a summer day.