At 09:17 AM 12/28/98 -0500, you wrote: >The only beach camping I've ever done is under a beach umbrella with a 6 >pack so I hope someone can help me. > >If you've got nothing but sand and nothing to tie your tent to, what's the >preferred way of securing your tent against high winds? > >Campmor offers tent stakes called 'Sand Hogs', a 12" heavy steel stake. > >I had been thinking about fashioning some sort of cloth buckets I could fill >with sand and bury. Then I saw in Kabloona that Victoria Jason had attached >some sort of skirt around her tent that, I guess, she covered with sand to >keep it tied down and to prevent wind from getting underneath the tent. > >Any thoughts? Clyde, instead of cloth buckets you could use the empties after you finish your six-pack. :~) JS *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Dec 28 1998 - 08:20:28 PST
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