Greetings all,

First post here, I am glad I found this site. I have traditionally been a car camper and just recently have planned out a couple of backpacking trips where I will be doing multi day hikes with some expected bad conditions.

I have never really used guy lines and I just recently bought a tent(Black Diamond Mesa 2 person). Very easy to setup but they gave me a rope that was 50 feet which I am assuming are the guy lines? Do I cut this rope for each loop? I am a little confused on this. I understand the concept of how they perform but I am not sure of how to go about this; they only came with the rope, no clips or anything like that. Thanks and I look forward to looking through this site and finding all kinds of great info!