Mungo
22-10-2007, 02:32
I know that setting up a tarp sounds like the easiest thing in all of bushcraft... I have used them over a ridgeline made of cord, and this is fairly easy. But I wanted to learn how to make a free-standing shelter, so as to replace my tent. The reason I want to set up my tarp as a free standing shelter is to limit the amount of weight that I normally carry on a canoe trip.
Sometimes I go on solo canoe trips and have to portage all of my gear in my knapsack, plus portage my canoe over land. My tent probably weighs about 10 pounds with the necessary fiberglass rods and the tarp I have weighs just under about 1 1/2 pounds (I am guessing).
After trying multiple set-ups and getting quite frustrated, I settled upon the following plans - I set up my tarp as in the image below that I created. I had to install two additional grommets on my tarpaulin because mine did not have the set-up as in the image below:
http://bp2.blogger.com/_ccWC_qkHkY0/RxvJO4WKwyI/AAAAAAAAEwo/Ammu4wpurq0/s400/tarpshelter.jpg (http://mungobah.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-make-tarp-shelter-tutorial.html)
I ended up with the following arrangement:
http://bp1.blogger.com/_ccWC_qkHkY0/Rxux2oWKwMI/AAAAAAAAEsY/el0muosEg7E/s400/PA200063.JPG (http://mungobah.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-make-tarp-shelter-tutorial.html)
Please see my tutorial for in-depth details and photographs (http://mungobah.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-make-tarp-shelter-tutorial.html). I explain how I attached new grommets to the tarp as well.
Cheers,
Mungo
Sometimes I go on solo canoe trips and have to portage all of my gear in my knapsack, plus portage my canoe over land. My tent probably weighs about 10 pounds with the necessary fiberglass rods and the tarp I have weighs just under about 1 1/2 pounds (I am guessing).
After trying multiple set-ups and getting quite frustrated, I settled upon the following plans - I set up my tarp as in the image below that I created. I had to install two additional grommets on my tarpaulin because mine did not have the set-up as in the image below:
http://bp2.blogger.com/_ccWC_qkHkY0/RxvJO4WKwyI/AAAAAAAAEwo/Ammu4wpurq0/s400/tarpshelter.jpg (http://mungobah.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-make-tarp-shelter-tutorial.html)
I ended up with the following arrangement:
http://bp1.blogger.com/_ccWC_qkHkY0/Rxux2oWKwMI/AAAAAAAAEsY/el0muosEg7E/s400/PA200063.JPG (http://mungobah.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-make-tarp-shelter-tutorial.html)
Please see my tutorial for in-depth details and photographs (http://mungobah.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-make-tarp-shelter-tutorial.html). I explain how I attached new grommets to the tarp as well.
Cheers,
Mungo