Winter Tarp Door Management

[HillbillyHanger]

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.

[Shug]

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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[HillbillyHanger]

Thanks Mr. Emery. I saw your video. I might have to try that binder clip. Don't forget to get Karl some persimmon pudding.

[Marnoc]

I use a small s biner at each end of the tarp to close the doors on my tarp.

[SteveE]

I use mitten hooks on the foot end and a short section of cord on the other...
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[johnnumbers]

Mitten hooks on bungie for me.

[jedavisii]

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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[cmoulder]

As usual, many ways to skin this cat.

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.

[Shagginwagon]

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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I also use this method. Mitten hooks would be able to do basically the same thing, it is just preference I think.

[jcksparow]

I like the mitten hook method, but I often had difficultly getting my doors to overlap sufficiently to prevent wind gusts from getting in. After my recent addition of kam-snaps to my winter tarp doors, this is no longer a concern.

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