[pct-l] Pct-L Digest, Vol 74, Issue 11

[Diane Soini]

My experience was, and continues to be, that the bigger problem is 
keeping the stakes in, not putting them in. Lotta wind and very soft 
dirt = my tent blew down a lot. I had to start collecting bigger stakes. 
Fortunately I would find one now and then until eventually I had a few 
extra and could use two stakes on each corner and the biggest ones fore 
and aft.

On 02/10/2014 06:00 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 13:12:31 -0700
> From: "Wally Neal"<wallyneal at gmail.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] PCT - Hard Dirt?
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> I just got a new tent & took it down to the park to check it out & practice
> setting it up. Wow! Was it ever difficult to get those tent stakes into the
> ground. We've had no rain here in a very long time, as is the case for most
> of the PCT. Is driving tent stakes likely to be a common problem? I'm
> thinking about taking a 5 in. tile roofing nail to use to create most of the
> stake hole, putting the tent stake in that and then driving it the last inch
> or so.
>   
> -Walljito