Doors are a nice add-on to a hex tarp and I would say a necessary one in the end, because if it starts to rain, then you can most likely have a little bit of wind and the ends of your hammock are then at risk to get wet if the doors are not deployed, at least, to me, this very thought is enough so that I don't sleep very well.
That somewhat questions for me the very HEX design itself because: when are you setting your tarp if not when there is a rain forecast, and if the tarp's coverage is not enough without the doors deployed, then why not having a rectangular tarp at least in the first place ? Possibly with doors ?
Anyway, what typically happens is that I set the four corners of the tarp in the first place and then I'm pretty happy with it but at some point in the evening or, worse, in the night I will have to deal with those goddamn doors if the weather turns nasty. You can try to link them together: hmmmm, doesn't look very good ; you can try to attach them to the continuous loops of the hammock, hmmmm doesn't work well. You can try then to attach them together behind the trees where the hammock is hung from, that requires extra guy line and doesn't work perfectly either. In the end you find out that these doors have to be attached like anything else, to an anchor point, vegetation or peg.
So my question is: did anyone invent something faster than loosing twice the time you would loose with a rectangular tarp because of the doors ??
Thanks !!
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