Today I finish section A of the PCT using Tensa Trekking Treez, tree-sparse desert, and I have been very happy with a new type of screw anchor, which we (Tensa) are testing as an option alongside our present Boomstakes and Orange Screws. These are lighter than either. I packed also a single 30cmx8mm ti nail to use to make pilot holes for the screws as necessary in super hard ground, but haven’t needed it yet for that. The nail was useful 2 nights ago for a pure rock hang; I wedged it in a cleft as anchor.
New type require a 17mm driver, whether you have one or several anchors.
My goal is to complete the whole PCT without ever going to ground or even sleeping in a bed, which I can’t do anyway anymore. Below is every night so far, not in order, save one where I took only video, no photo (anchoring was to 3 chaparral bushes and 1 new type ground anchor, easy peasy).
All 4 anchors in sandy gravel wash out of Campo
2 scrub oaks, Hauser Canyon
1 Ca Live Oak, 1 pair of screws in soft rooty soil, Boulder Oaks
In lodge at Mt. Laguna. 1 door hinge pin, 2 screws wedged between queen box spring and frame bolted to floor
I’m in this hammock right now typing, listening to turkeys, woodpeckers, quail, mourning doves, scrub jays. Both ends on same Live Oak branch. Heaven. Near Warner Springs.
Pure rock hang near cactus gardens past Scissors Crossing. Tied around rock on head end; ti stake wedged in cleft on foot end. Could maybe have used screws but granite was very sharp; would likely have chewed it up (like it did the dyna-weave on head end)
4 screws in rocky gravel before Scissors Crossing. 1 anchor ripped out before I repositioned after digging to firmer.
1 scrub bush, 3 screws in extremely loose light soil. After i ripped out a dead bush (dead=useless) I used 2 screws in the rooty crater to hold. High winds spinnakered me while in the hammock to about 20° after I sleeved the tarp that was making such a roar I couldn’t sleep. Tarp stakes pulled up repeatedly until I replaced with giant rocks on windward side gathered freezing by headlamp. Most challenging, but all screws held.
1 Ponderosa, 2 screws. Penney Pines.
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