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Disney
03-31-2010, 16:48
This is a trick a non-hiker showed me on a fishing trip about 2 years ago. Before this, I just suffered in shameful ignorant silence.

http://www.mensjournal.com/deadman

Maybe it's obvious once you see it, but I never thought of it.
Hope it helps somebody.

Tinker
03-31-2010, 18:15
This is a trick a non-hiker showed me on a fishing trip about 2 years ago. Before this, I just suffered in shameful ignorant silence.

http://www.mensjournal.com/deadman

Maybe it's obvious once you see it, but I never thought of it.
Hope it helps somebody.

The link omits the fourth step: Put a big rock on top.

It's possible to put sand in stuffsacks, tie guylines to them and bury them as well, though you end up with dirty stuffsacks. It works in snow, too, but you get wet, instead of dirty, stuffsacks.

Thanks for posting this tidbit.

garlic08
03-31-2010, 21:00
Another tip: In snow, I carry some cheap twine for the deadmen. In many conditions, the deadmen freeze solidly into place and you'll never dig them back out, so you have to abandon the line.

Rain Man
04-01-2010, 10:56
The link omits the fourth step: Put a big rock on top.

Yep. When the ground is too hard, rather than being too soft, I lay my tent stake down, and place a rock or log on it. Has always held so far. My youngest daughter saw me do that when we did a couple of AT section hikes together. Then this past summer, she hiked Springer-to-Neels Gap alone. Came home and told me she had to use that trick a time or two herself.

Rain:sunMan

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