What's your opinion about door management for winter tarps? Mitten hooks? Clips? Tie each one to a stake? Share with me best experiences. Thanks.
What's your opinion about door management for winter tarps? Mitten hooks? Clips? Tie each one to a stake? Share with me best experiences. Thanks.
I stake mine out and use a large binder clip to roll a door up and out of the way on my Superfly.
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Thanks Mr. Emery. I saw your video. I might have to try that binder clip. Don't forget to get Karl some persimmon pudding.
I use a small s biner at each end of the tarp to close the doors on my tarp.
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I use mitten hooks on the foot end and a short section of cord on the other...
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Mitten hooks on bungie for me.
I met this fella at MAHHA last spring and he pointed me to this reference. Seems to work well so far.
http://www.adventurealan.com/method-...ck-tarp-doors/
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Still tweaking my Palace doors, but this is what I did at first to get a feel for the dimensions. 2.5mm shock cord, zing-it and a mitten hook. I've since traded the knots for splices because 1) splices are far less prone to tangling, and 2) I've been sitting around a bit nursing a sprained ankle, so I've got some time on my hands.
At first I anchored the zing-it to the tarp corner D rings but found that the doors were not taut all the way up and rather saggy in the middle. Sliding the zing-it prusik down the corner guy line (Glowire) cured this, and I found that a simple 2-wrap prusik didn't move at all during the night.
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I have been using Z-Line.. At the tarp end there is a mini ucr for adjustment and at the other end is a short length of shock cord with an eye tied in it and a Tato Gear Door Clip captured in the eye. I have found that I don't need too much shock cord so over time I have made it shorter and shorter.. The Door Clip can clip to the opposite doors at it's ground corner whether the doors are overlapped or pulled out into a vestibule, or the eye can go over the opposite stake. When pinned open the clip gets hooked on the side panel pull.
I've found that saggy middle can be remedied by using a wider/narrower footprint when pitching. Sometimes it helps to start with the doors closed in vestibule mode and them stake out the ground corners.. this takes the sag out of the doors.
Last edited by MikekiM; 02-04-2019 at 07:18.
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