Hey guys, i have been considering a few things. Imagine your sleeping through a thunderstorm, everythings fine, but suddenly the winds increase in speed dramatically. Your not in a thunderstorm, your in a situation that has extremely fast fast winds. The violent rocking of your hammock, your tarp smaking you in the face, wakes you. Limbs crash, debris flys past your bugnet.
My solution: Have quick disconnect points at each end of the tarp. This point would be a length of rope(maybe 1-2 feet) from your dring, or in my case a break in my continuous ridgeline a foot or two from my tarp with a loop . Maybe my continuous ridgeline would be three pieces, connected by toggles.
First i would undo the toggles connecting my hammock to the tree, go into bivy mode. Next, undo the toggles connecting the part that goes around the trees to the part middle part of the tarp ridgeline. So the tarp would reamin connected to the stakes, but disconnected quickly from the tree. A length of line would still be connected to the tree on each side, but would not be in use. All that would need to be done would be to run a stake throug the loops on each end of the tarp that you just released, and cinch down the other stake loops tight. Maybe you could use drings instead of toggles, would be easier to disconnect. If your having trouble visualizing, i wiill come up with a visual later.
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