I think you'd very likely be OK in a good thick marine ply, but that's a question for a structural engineer - we don't want anybody crossing their fingers and having a hexayurt fall on them!
In general, once you move out of the "foam and cardboard" domain into real construction, safety becomes much, much more important. Snow loads, particularly, are just *massive* and it's really important to treat a hexayurt as a *real building* and do what people do in your local area in terms of making sure it will stand up to the local conditions. Vinay On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Donna Simonds <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken, thanks for the reply: > > When I wintered up in the mountains west of Capitan we had cougar and > bobcat who laid claim to the area. > It was not not uncommon to see their tracks in the snow drifts around my > RV, or, for me to hear the sudden > thud on my roof of four paws after dark. The mighty little bobcat can jump > ten feet up in the air from a standing > position. That winter 70 mph wind gusts for days and nights on end might > make Hexayurt impossible for my > location. The last time I tent camped up on my little piece of mountain > there were bears in my camp, and on > that trip I had a tent, and luckily Mr. Browning. This may not work for my > situation, but I will forward this info > to our growing numbers of homeless in this country that are pretty much > going ignored. I have friends and even > family living in these tent cities. They get out daily and find work so > they are able to buy their own materials and > refuse to accept money from me. > > Take care, God bless and, have a nice day:) > RoadScribe > ScribeCave.com > "The austerity storm is here. Are you ready?" > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://bit.ly/gupta_arc <http://bit.ly/gupta_arc%20>- the Gupta State Failure Management Archive http://bit.ly/gupta_ark - or see it directly on Archive.org http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
