Just got back yesterday from a AWESOME backpack trip down to the Shining Rock Wilderness. I may do a trip report, but that's not what this thread is about.
It's about the hugacious (new word Fulminated taught me at the HS hang ) tarp (roughly 12'x10') I made the night before I left.
Here it is:
I must apologize for it, it had never been out in public, and I hadn't had time to teach it proper etiquette on when not to sport a boner.
Actually, that's my trick I figured out. I only had corner tieouts, and that was woefully inadequate for keeping it tame in the stiff breezes we had all night. Also, the fabric stretches really badly. And is not sil, but some kind of DWR (didn't leak in the rain we got on Sat. night, but wicked water if you touched it), so I have to figure out how to make it really waterproof.
I just rolled a little stub of rotten twig into the edge of the tarp and tied it to my hiking stick, and took the tail and staked it out. Worked quite well.
Here's the view from the back side.
Do any of you have any advice on how to get this beast fully waterproof? I have the silicone caulking and mineral spirits, but don't know if the DWR that's on there already will mess it up. And I also plan on putting 2 more tieouts on each long edge about 3 feet in from the corners to make doors, and a nice deep cat cut to tighten up the center, and also some center tieouts.
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