This thread ended with discussions for winter tarp tie outs,
https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...-tarp-tie-outs
but I wanted a thread specifically for winter tarp tie outs. I want to optimize for gloves, and ideally, mittens. My hands get really cold fast when I'm static, and then they take forever to warm back up, so I'm looking for zero exposed skin at any point during setup and take down. I was out this weekend in the Whites with temps between 10 and 30, using a Superfly with Derek Hansen's biner/prusik CRL and Andrew Skurka's "McCarthy hitch" for the tie outs and neither were satisfactory for gloves, and impossible with mittens. With the gloves, I had to use my teeth to pull the lines at some point, and even simple hitches snagged on the gloves (and they were not thick gloves, just OR versa liners used without their shells -- I would like to keep the shells on to limit convective heat loss).
The thread above mentioned Line Loc3 -- I have these on one my tarps and like them. How well do they work when iced-over/frozen though? I am also open to hardware, but they must be semi-impossible to lose in the snow. The Tarp Tick and similar look kind of fiddly for winter use.
What do you use for winter?
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