You don’t have to have the ridge line level. It can be a benefit - more water shedding - if one end is higher so it angles down toward one end. That will take up some of any “extra” length. In that situation, I’d keep the foot end lower and use one pole for semi-porch mode at the head end for access during the day and lower it for more weather protection at night.
Picking the ridge line direction relative to the incoming weather is important too. My tarp suspension is like an oval going around the two trees with the tarp taking up one side. That allows a “center” area for the hammock suspension. But that’s a configuration where the hammock lines are coming off the middle of the tree. This year I’m going to try bringing both the tarp and the hammock suspension off the side of the tree. In that case they may touch. But I wouldn’t consider it rubbing. And it’s just the suspension lines; not the tarp itself.
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