R. Walker wrote: > > > 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. > > Personally, I use a bivy sack instead of a big tent. But with a tent, > you could use any long metal rod, probably would need to be at > least 24" long, and personally, I'd just as soon carry a set of 36" > long rods, probably aluminum or brass. Buy at a hardware store, > hammer a hook into one end, and be sure to bring a mallet for > setting the stake. Richard's idea is a cheap and practical one. If you have any metalworking skills, you might take a look at a "snow fluke," a device climbers use to anchor in soft snow, and fabricate half a dozen replicas with centrally-located holes to anchor tie-off ropes to. Note the fluke must maintain the correct "attitude" in the sand, or pulling on it will extract it from the sand. The commercial versions I have seen (and owned, long ago) had a cable lashup which kept the correct angle. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 - 09:23:48 PST
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