Rick.Sylvia_at_ferguson.com wrote: > what is the "proper" way to stake out a tent????? How > about giving us a condensed tutorial on it. Others have covered most of the bases on this, Rick, with the main ingredient being "make sure your anchors (stakes, rocks, deadmen, boulders, unwanted relatives, etc.) are solid," and various recommendations for specific stake material. I think for almost all of the wilderness campsites you are likely to use, native materials are the best, with emphasis on use of buried logs, large rocks, and the like. Those wimpy 1/8-inch diameter aluminum pegs sold with most tents are pretty worthless in most coastal sites. They work well enough in sod (think grassy campgrounds) or dense "soil," which coastal environments generally do not have. To keep it simple, I'd suggest you carry three things: 1. a set of the more durable version of the 10-12 inch plastic stakes available at K-mart for the times when you will actually have relatively consolidated ground. This will handle the campground situation. 2. a small collapsible saw 3. a small hand axe The latter two will allow you to fashion mongo stakes or deadmen from driftwood when you camp on sand. When you need rocks to anchor the tent, you don't need tools; you need Bruno to do the heavy lifting, and you to tie the knots. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 07 2002 - 17:40:22 PST
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