The weekend before last I had my first hang. I learned a lot, and one of those things was I'm going to prefer having a continuous ridge line for my tarp with prusik knots for adjusting placement. It just seems easier to me to use a long length of cordage to span, wrap, and tie.
On my first hang, all I brought with me that I could do this with was some yellow tarp guyline I got from Warbonnet. The line did the job fine, but the adjustability of the prusik knots wasn't there. The line squeezed together so much I couldn't slide the knots around.
So, what do you guys that like a continuous ridge line like to use? Amsteel (which I've discovered I can get custom lengths of pretty cheaply) for the ridge line and #36 bank line for the prusiks is where I'm leaning at the moment, or maybe just keep using the dyneema guyline I have for the line and something else for the prusik knots? I know the tarp doesn't care, but I also know I don't know much, and am leaning on the experience of you guys for advice.
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