I'm working slowly towards an AT thru hike this year with a hammock. I've been a bit surprised in how the learning curve is steeper than my old tent setup, but making process (by making about every mistake possible and correcting for it, fortunately only in my back yard and on a few day trips). I recently completed a really windy night assessment associated with the NE storm, wind gusts to about 35 mph. I found that I'm going to need ear plugs for this, and that it is better to anchor down stakes, as opposed for trying to find them when they pull out and fling away.
My question is: what is the best way to orient and tie down a big winter palace tarp to reduce problems in gusty winds? The wind was whipping from NW, which pushed the front of the tarp inwards, and made the back part fly out, tearing out 2 leeward stakes. I then shortened the guy lines so that the tarp edges were about a foot above ground, and closed the windward door. The rest of the night was OK, except for the noise (which included my tarp ridgeline rubbing against my dyneema suspension, creating an annoying intermittent bass note, which I eliminated by rotating the dyneema suspension away from the Ridgeline below).
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