Was out for a back yard afternoon hang while my kids were napping and ultimately cut it short due to wind. According to my DIY weather station we were getting sustained winds of 20 mph with gusts as high as 40.
I was using a Warbonnet Thunderfly with the two pole mods and shock cord guylines running 3mm Lawson GloWire. The tarp was shaking like crazy, even pitched as low as I could, and it got me worrying that it ultimately wouldn’t hold up. That either the stakes in soft wet ground would get yanked out or that the ridgeline would rip and my tarp would go flying off into Lake Superior.
This all got me thinking. How windy is to windy for hanging a tarp? What could you or would you do in a similar super windy situation?
For me, I pitched it as low as I could, and tried to not be broadside to the wind. Beyond that I just sang the “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” in my best Gordon Lightfoot impression as a peace offering to the wind coming off of the lake.
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