Staking Down A Floorless Tent

[Rucker61]

I've been hunting for just a few years now with a few different tents - BWD Luna 5(6), MS Mountainlight and a GoLite SL-5, and I just picked up a BWD tarp for emergencies. However, I've never learned exactly which stakes to use where when pitching the tent.

Where should the primary stakes go, like MSR Groundhogs/8" Eastons, and where can you get away with small stakes like the Mini-Groundhogs?

 

[Jpeaston]

I use ground hogs on the four corners, and mini's everywhere else.

 

[colonel00]

I typically use groundhogs for all of the main stake locations and minis for the guyout points. This is on the Cimarron currently and a lot depends on the surface you are pitching on too. After the last packraft rondy, I learned a lesson and will have some of the MSR Cyclone (I think that's what they're called) on hand for loose soil situations. Even groundhogs weren't holding in the looses glacial silt/sand.

 

[luke moffat]

I typically use groundhogs for all of the main stake locations and minis for the guyout points. This is on the Cimarron currently and a lot depends on the surface you are pitching on too. After the last packraft rondy, I learned a lesson and will have some of the MSR Cyclone (I think that's what they're called) on hand for loose soil situations. Even groundhogs weren't holding in the looses glacial silt/sand.

I hear ya there. The 4 main for the Cimarron or 5 main for the Sawtooth when planning to camp on river bars at a minimum. I don't bother with mini groundhogs anywhere on my Cimarrons or Sawtooth. Only the shorter Cuben shelter do I use minis on for everything but the 4 main corners of my cuben shelter as those get standard ground hogs.

 

[kodiakfly]

I picked up some Cyclones this year and holy crap...they hold. Bigger and thus heavier, but they really lock it down. I just ordered some more of them.

 

[Backpack Hunter]

In the past it was the main points that got the groundhogs, and the rest got the minis. The last year or so everything gets the groundhogs. For me, it's just more streamlined.

 

[Mv48]

Needle stakes work awesome for me with a couple groundhogs if the ground is softer.


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