Apart from the obvious
I've been tinkering with a few tarp designs / prototypes and have come up with something which I think is pretty cool. I need to give it a good test which I can't do until my shoulder recovers from recent surgery, but it got me thinking, Apart from to keep off rain, wind, snow etc, what other things do you want from a tarp? For me, I'd like corner pockets maybe at the lower corners at the head end (inside of course). I'd like pull outs for when the weather gets hairy. I want it to easily fit in the stuff sack when I take it down in a hurry and not have to stand there packing for 10 minutes (or maybe I should use snake skins?). I want it to be a structure not just a rain cover, and when I lie there at 2am and the wind is 40 mph gusting to 60, that I can drift off to sleep and not worry that the tie outs are going to tear. Weight isn't really an issue for me but still, I don't want it to weigh an outrageous amount.
So what do you want from a tarp?
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