Registered: 12/31/07
Posts: 245
Loc: St. Louis, Missouri
I've been experimenting with bad weather setups. When we get sleet or snow, especially with high winds, I set up my tarp in the backyard and camp out (my neighbors have gotten used to it I think). I've experiment with different pitches etc.
I recently bent some titanium stakes by pounding into frozen ground. I've also lost stakes when high winds rip them out of the ground.
So I recently bought some 8" Easton stakes. At first I thought they would work great because they were easy to pound in and the length allowed me to get a really secure hold. My report is that I don't like them.
Here's the problem. When I pulled the stakes out half of them lost their tops. The stakes themselves are still under the ground. Grr.
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