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A stranger's one comment fixed my tent setup forever
Last month at Big Bend, a guy next to my site watched me stake out my tent and said, 'You're fighting the ground, not using it.' I was pulling the guylines too tight, had the rainfly crooked. He showed me how to angle stakes at 45 degrees into the soil. Next morning, zero sag, zero flutter, even with 20 mph gusts. Has anyone else had a random camper point out something that simple and it just clicked?
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chen.jade1mo ago
My buddy Dave had the same thing happen at a site near Moab two summers ago. He had his stakes going straight down and his lines cranked so tight you could play them like a guitar string. Some older woman walking her dog stopped and told him he was basically building a sail, not a tent. She showed him how to run the lines so they follow the same angle as the seams, and how to leave a little slack so the tent can move with the wind instead of fighting it. He said the next night the wind kicked up around 2am and his tent just breathed with it while the guy two spots over was out there re-staking in the dark. Little stuff like that is why I still stop and watch how other people set up camp.
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