Hello all,
This weekend I had an impromptu overnight that materialized in 40 minutes with a good friend of mine. We thought it would be ideal at 6:30 PM on a Saturday night to hike up to Massachusetts highest point - Mt Greylock. This was the extent of the planning we had done.
Other than understanding it might be kinda windy and cold, we had no other information. Turns out that there was a wind advisory and with wind chill factored, it felt like 8 degrees. There were 40 mph wind gusts and a steady 15 to 20 mph wind all night.
I have a warbonnet Minifly. For this particular weekend, I had everything staked out at a pretty steep angle because I thought we might get some snow. I figured this would help shed the snow. It did snow but not enough to worry about snow shedding.But what that also meant was that when the wind gusts hit, my tarp would literally collapse around me. It was hitting the hammock and me in it.
I have MSR minihog stakes that didn't move. I used the tie out lines sold in the Warbonnet website. I have some reflective stuff that looks like paracord for the ridgeline (not continous). I used taut line hitches to the stakes for adjustability. The next morning, the lines were still quite taught.
When I went to bed I had the tarp and hammock oriented head first into the wind but it must have shifted at night.
Besides a pole mod and pull outs, is there soundtjing else I can do to mitigate this from occurring again? Maybe a shallower angle on the tarp? I dont know. Any help is appreciated.
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