Snake Skin or Stuff sack for Tarp?

[Secondmouse]

I have a few tarps and they all came in stuff sacks but I picked up a pair of HH Snake Skins recently. I want to like them but the set up seems cumbersome and bulky in my pack.

am I doing the snake skins wrong and what do you all prefer?..

[Bizzz]

I just purchased these and really like them. Very well made and received them in a couple days. Kat is another great cottage vendor. Once the tarp is in the sleeves, I just roll it up from one end to the other.

http://www.outdoortrailgear.com/cott...orage-sleeves/

[SilvrSurfr]

Snakeskins help manage the tarp in high winds. It's so easy putting your tarp away with snake skins. I've tried the stuff sack method and it's not my cup of tea.

[xrayit]

I bought three sets in Multicam from this vendor,great skins and a steal at this price. Actually makes my tarp easier to pack.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hammock-Tarp...sAAOSwM4xXbXpe

[kitsapcowboy]

Here in the Pacific Northwest, even during the typical drought months of summer, there's always going to be the threat of rain.

Right now as I type this, I'm hanging in my hammock, the afternoon sun is shining, there's not a cloud in the sky, and the current weather forecast predicts "0% chance of rain"...

And I STILL have my tarp hung.

That's where the snake skins come in handy. (I use the SLD Quick Fly instead of the heavier, bulkier Hennessy product.) I can hang my tarp in fair summer weather like today without deploying my tarp. If the weather turns foul, I can slide back the skins and have my asym tarp guyed out in about a minute. With luck, I'll be hanging with the tarp rolled like this for several days and never need to unfurl it -- but it's right there if I need it in a hurry.

[gfstanley]

I actually use both. I skin my tarp to help with pitch/pack in wind as SilvrSurfr stated, and then stuff into a sack so it will pack better into a side mesh pocket on my pack.

[Hobopelican]

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And I STILL have my tarp hung.

That's where the snake skins come in handy.

Yep, that's me, also. I got my skins from Kat and really like the ease of deployment, both initial hang and when extending sides for an Ohio rain. For me, they don't pack nearly as well in skins, but it's worth the space. I just fold them in half over and over until it fits in the elastic panel on my Osprey.

[goobie]

I actually use both. I skin my tarp to help with pitch/pack in wind as SilvrSurfr stated, and then stuff into a sack so it will pack better into a side mesh pocket on my pack.

This, for all those reasons. I put it back in the skins, DIY'ed from leftover noseeum, after setting up if it's not raining but might later.

[kitsapcowboy]

I actually use both. I skin my tarp to help with pitch/pack in wind as SilvrSurfr stated, and then stuff into a sack so it will pack better into a side mesh pocket on my pack.

The skins-in-sack method is something Shug says he uses in one of his pack load videos...

...I just fold them in half over and over until it fits in the elastic panel on my Osprey.

I do something very similar. I store my hammock in a double-ended stuff sack with the continuous loops protruding from each end. When I store my asym tarp (which is pretty svelte) in the skins, I fold it at the midway point and then proceed to make additional folds at intervals the same length as my hammock stuff sack. Then I just slip the skinned, folded tarp down one side of the sack in line with the hammock. My tarp stakes are in a reinforced HD stake bag from AHE, also slipped down the side, and my suspension components sit on top of the head end of the sack in an AHE Sap Sack, last in, first out. That way, my entire hammock shelter system stores neatly into a single, relatively compact 52-ounce bundle, ready to deploy in the order I need the individual items.

[chipmem]

I've had these for about half a year and love 'em.
http://www.outdoortrailgear.com/cott...orage-sleeves/