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

[Jeffrey Olson]

For some reason my stakes always come out.  Solution - put 10 lb rocks 
on the stake cord right at the stake.  Or 20 lbers.  Or stack smaller 
ones.  There are few places on the PCT where you can't find rocks to 
dink around with.  This makes tautening guy lines on those stretchy 
silnylon tents really easy in the middle of the night when it's dewy and 
damp or raining.  If only they made a tent fabric that contracted rather 
than expanded when wet...

Jeff...

On 2/10/2014 12:12 PM, Diane Soini wrote:
> 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:
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 13:12:31 -0700
>> From: "Wally Neal"<wallyneal at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [pct-l] PCT - Hard Dirt?
>> To:<pct-l at backcountry.net>
>> Message-ID:<006101cf25d3$43ce6280$cb6b2780$@gmail.com>
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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
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