I tried to set up my whole system today for the first time. I walked outside and was greeted by sustained 25 mph winds with 35 mph gusts. I only have one option for where to hang in my backyard (2 trees right by lake) so I figured, why not try to set up in this bad weather so I can learn.
Here's my problem. First, I'm using snakeskins, so I was able to get a taught ridgeline for the tarp. I started to slowly unwind the tarp until I could get to my stake out points, and I put them into the ground the best I could on the wind side and then worked my way around. The problem (among others) is that there just didn't seem to be any way to get the guy lines light enough that the tarp wasn't blowing into the hammock in the middle. I don't know if I was trying to go too low and tight and therefor I was making a 90 degree angle to the wind, and in that much wind, I should have raised them a bit and let the wind blow through or what.
Any advice would be great!!!
On a side note, the metal ring that you attach the ridge line to on the Superfly seems to have flown off. I don't know if it broke, or wasn't hooked on well or what, but this is the first time I've tried to pitch the tarp and at one point my ridge line fell and I noticed the ring missing. I'm assuming I can just run a Stingerz from dutch through that loop and have it server the same purpose?
Bookmarks