Set up my HH yesterday afternoon in the backyard, and this was my first time doing so in 25+mph winds. It wasn't a pretty sight. The stock HH tarp tieouts are very fine, tarp caught the wind and the lines slipped out of my fingers, flailed up in the tree branches becoming a tangled mess that took me 30 minutes to straighten out. I was attempting my first tarp setup with it tied directly to the trees, so the longer lines (as opposed to the prussic knot attachment point) made it even a better sail... This was also before attaching my brand new snakeskins.
Any suggestions for ways to make high-wind tarp setup less painful? Heavier/stiffer tieout lines? Winding the tieouts on some sort of spool?
I would think the snakeskins would help considerably, but of course then the tarp has to be wrapped up in the snakeskins and attached to the prussic, with the resulting tarp ridgeline sag and lack of rain protection while setting up.
I would guess this problem would be even worse with larger tarps, yes?
--Kurt
p.s. this experience reinforced for me the oft-heard suggestion in this forum to work out the kinks of hammocking in the backyard before attempting new gear and techniques the first night in the middle of nowhere.
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