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    Tarp in snakeskins; the best way?

    Now I have snakeskins for my tarp. I have been fumbling around with the best and most efficient way to store and deploy it? Just curious how do other hanger do it. Roll, stuff???I plan on using a full length ridgeline do you leave it attached??. Thanks.

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    I have had a few headaches with using snakeskins with a tarp. Before I got the skins, I would run a ridgeline under the tarp, through the tarp rings, around the tree and then connect the end of the ridgeline back to the ring. I would use a prussic knot and small biner to connect the ring of the tarp to the ridgeline, so that I could tension the tarp.

    Enter the snakeskins. If the tree were too large around, the narrow ends of the skins would be pulled tight apart so they would tear. So you have to position the skins to just about over the ring of the tarp, so that the narrow end of the skin has the ring sticking out for the end of the ridgeline to connect to. Using the prussic know did not work well either if the tree caused the "V" of the ridge line to be large.

    You definitely need to set this up in your back yard and work with it before you do it.
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    I leave my continuous ridgeline on my tarp, inside mu snakeskins. As for packing it, I cram it down inside an outside pocket on my pack.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gus View Post
    Now I have snakeskins for my tarp. I have been fumbling around with the best and most efficient way to store and deploy it? Just curious how do other hanger do it. Roll, stuff???I plan on using a full length ridgeline do you leave it attached??. Thanks.
    I roll it with my CRL attached inside the skin.

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    Stuff, either in a backpack pocket, or in it's own stuff sack if I'm on the river.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MAD777 View Post
    I leave my continuous ridgeline on my tarp, inside mu snakeskins. As for packing it, I cram it down inside an outside pocket on my pack.
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    Ditto on what Mad said. I'm using some of the noseeum mesh skins for now but I may go back to the "python skin" another member here made for me. The mesh skins will help vent just a bit of trapped moisture but on a short trip it doesn't really matter. I'm going to need to set the tarp up on the porch to dry it when I get home anyway.

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    I use a two-line set up for my ridgeline. I just wrap the line around the end of the skin/tarp when taking the tarp down. As for storing while I hike, I don't use a stuff sack with the skin. I just shove it in an outside pack pocket. That way I can get to it first if it is raining, and I don't have to open my pack up.

    At home, after I make sure the tarp is dry, I store the tarp in the skin, in the "tarp and Hammock" drawer.

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