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The day I learned my tent stakes were always wrong in Colorado
I camped near Estes Park last June and got hammered by wind all night. My tent held up, but every stake was bent like crazy, and I kept blaming the Rocky Mountain soil. Then a guy two sites over walked by and pointed out I was driving them at the wrong angle, straight down instead of leaning away from the tent. I'd been camping for 8 years like that, and suddenly all those wobbling nights made sense. Anyone else have a gear habit that took them a decade to fix?
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michaeld4819d ago
Learned the same lesson the hard way but with tarp ridgelines. For years I tied everything off with a plain old taut-line hitch and couldn't figure out why my tarp turned into a flapping mess at 2am every single trip. Turns out I was pulling the line tight before the knot was set, so it kept slipping a half inch at a time until the whole thing sagged. A buddy finally showed me to get the tension right after the knot is dressed, night and day difference. Eight years of soggy sleeping bags because of one dumb habit nobody ever bothered to point out. Funny how the stuff we do on autopilot is the hardest to catch.
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