I'm curious as to what minimum tie out tarp guyline lengths you find useful. When the weather turns, cold, rainy and the wind changes direction, it seems that a wide tarp (such as my new Warbonnet Mountainfly would be optimally set up with the sides just a few inches off the ground, but still comfortably wide so there is space to move, and to keep the sides off your face and underquilt.

I have always had four foot and six foot lengths and used to keep the six foot on the tarp and use the four as extensions ( or to use extra six footers) but using a larkshead at the tarp end and a adjustable grip hitch on the stake end, gives me a bit more than half the zing-it rope length. And four feet is way to much line to snug a 120" tarp down, it seems.

I'm switching from Zing-it and lash-it to Lawson glowire and am going to make new guyouts for all my tarps. Does anyone use really short guyouts like one foot, or eighteen inches? I wonder what lenght would be just off the ground, but as wide as possible for interior space. Hope I explained that adequately. I don't have much Glowire extra, so much of his line is sold out, so I don't want to simply experiment if I don't have to.

Any advice? Is it time for hardware?