Robin..........
I think everyone here reads your posts, or we wouldn't be here to begin with.
I will pitch the tent with shear poles, I will have tie tapes installed on the ridge, for a external ridge pole, so the poles can be arrow straight or crooked as a dogs hind leg. Lots of what, old loggers called "pecker poles" up here for poles. I also have a 9X12 wall tent, with 4 foot walls, that I pack into Week In The Woods (see link) that tent weights in at least 40 lbs. I cut and peeled seven 15 foot, arrow straight black spruce poles for it. It takes me three round trips to just get my tent, rain fly, and poles into the camp area. Thank goodness it is only a few hundred yards from the truck. Another three round trips to get my cot, camp chair, bed roll, cooking gear, and food packed in. It seems to me like a lot of work, but once set up, I am as comfortable as I would be at a 5 star lodge, and I sleep like a baby. One morning the camp director had to wake me up for the days classes, I slept so soundly. I'm thinking the smaller tent will make for a lighter camp.
Most of the summers in my early years of working for Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game were spent sleeping in wall tents. At the salmon counting tower camps we had a sleep tent at one end of a sand bar and a cook tent at the other, the tower in the middle. The most cold, wet coastal summers in NW Alaska were wonderful when you could fire up a Yukon stove, hang up your wet clothes and sleep warm and dry, then in the morning have dry clothes to put on. The tents we had were 10X12 or 12X14 supported by a 2x4 wood frames and plywood floors and some even had plywood walls. A couple of years ago I visited a Commercial Fisheries Sonar Camp on the Tanana River, below the town of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska. All high tech with maybe 14X20 computer tent with a generator tent back in the woods and a even bigger wall tent for a kitchen/dinning area. Each of the employees had a 10X12 wall tent of their own for sleeping and personal space. All tents were on platforms with plywood floors. My old mentor Bob Carlson was with me, the young ladies at the camp took him in as if he was their grandfather, they gave him a wonderful tour of the camp, showed him how the sonar counted salmon, how the fishwheel caught fish and fixed us a wonderful lunch, with great coffee (fresh ground coffee beans). After that we went fishing for northern pike and sheefish in some nearby streams.
Nothing better for a permanent or semi-permanent camp tent camp, than the wall tent!
.............BB