I guess my impatient streak has surfaced again. I've been wanting to take a trip to our local Joann's store to pick up some fleece and ripstop for a topquilt and a bit of extra ripstop for some stuffsacks and a pair of triangle thingies. However, since our local Joann's is about 20 miles away, we just haven't had the time to make the trip yet. In the mean time I began thinking about other ways to achieve what a triangle thingy does but without the triangles. I came up with this idea...most likely nothing new but maybe it'll be useful to someone...
First I took 2 pieces of 1/8" polypro utility cord and tied a small loop in each end, overall length was about 14 inches...
To get everything adjusted properly, I enlisted the help of my youngest daughter, partner in crime and soon to be hanger, Jenna...
One end of the cord was hooked onto my ridgeline biner...
The other end of the utility cord was hooked to a mini biner which was hooked to my ridgeline. My UQ (actually a PLUQ I recently finished) was also attached to the mini biner via sections of 1/8" shock cord. For the moment the shock cords are attached to the PLUQ with additional mini biners and but I can see those going away easily.
The whole things snugs up quite nicely...
Got to give it an overnight test hang soon...and the girls are off for a shopping trip next weekend...hmmmm...could happen!
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