Good idea or bad idea?

[TheDudeAbides]

I want to make my tarp setup with trekking poles less fiddlie. I know the easy way it to do a clove hitch with the line and loop it around the handle or the tip (heathens). But the trekking pole strap always is on the way and I thought making a purpose built loop would be the answer. So my idea was to make a dog bone and pass it through itself to make a constricting loop with two loops on the end. In house testing seems to work but maybe it is just silly.







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[kev138]

If it works it's not silly. Besides you could always find another use for them if you need to. Neat idea if you ask me.

[cmoulder]

Seems that you would then need to tie the guy line from the tarp to your new piece on the pole handle, and then tie again going from the new piece to the stake-out point on the ground.

A clove hitch takes about 2 seconds to make, can be made anywhere along the guy line, and can be made large enough to pass over straps (or nubs of broken twigs on small branches being used as tarp poles) and would therefore be my preference.

Having had trekking pole handles gnawed on by various vermin, I'm also firmly in the "handles up" camp!

Bob

[Kayak_Medic]

I used a marlin spike hitch with my trekking pole. Worked like a champ.