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Compared to most on this forum, I am a complete newbie at this outdoor milarky, but always willing to learn. What is the most valuable piece of advice you have received or skill learnt?
to start:
with the climate here, I spend time camping in the deep snow (snowing again as I write this!) the most useful skill I learnt and practiced recently was the method of guying out tarp/tent from Andrew Skurka’s website:
https://andrewskurka.com/guyline-tension-system-backpacking-tents-tarps-hammocks/
Dead-men instead of stakes and trucker-hitch with quick release knots to take down camp quickly.
So useful. I have changed the tieouts on the majority of my tents and tarps to be able to set them up like this.
to start:
with the climate here, I spend time camping in the deep snow (snowing again as I write this!) the most useful skill I learnt and practiced recently was the method of guying out tarp/tent from Andrew Skurka’s website:
https://andrewskurka.com/guyline-tension-system-backpacking-tents-tarps-hammocks/
Dead-men instead of stakes and trucker-hitch with quick release knots to take down camp quickly.
So useful. I have changed the tieouts on the majority of my tents and tarps to be able to set them up like this.