My Favorite Spring Rain or Snow Tarp Set Up

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Sure it's my favorite all round set up using our PSTL Tarp, I do like a lot of the other more than 50 ways to set it up too, but this one is so versatile. It is for shade, or protection from rain or snow showers. I can hang my poncho up as a hammock in it too. It has room for two cots if that's the way you want to go. Or just use it with up to three camp chairs and a cooler to relax. Easy set up. More info the poncho http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=1935 More info on the PSTL tarp http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=796

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well Perry peacock here I'm up tooling around a little bit I've located me a little spot for camp here on down the hill a little bit this is a nice little area I love the Quay keys in the summer Pines here yeah I like wearing my poncho and stuff in weather like this some because I mean you know it's the weather just kind of laughing on and I don't snap it all up all the way down the side just like one snap on each side plenty of ventilation but you know keeps me from getting wet well there's the pond not much ragtag little pond well kind of wander along the one bank of this little pond here and head left up here already stash some gear up here so so we just head on across here and see up ahead right there I threw my tarp over the my backpack and everything started unpacking it all to get ready so now we'll just get started on setting this thing up I'll show you should I do humming it's pretty simple pretty straightforward but it really works nice well here we go we've got snow pellets coming down again here and hey what the heck it's not rain like it was earlier that it might change the rain I don't know the first thing I'm going to do is set up the shelter so I'm going to set me a Ridgeline between these two trees I'm going to simulate as if it were raining like like earlier I'd be wearing my poncho and so I would string my tarp up first so that I can get a I can get a shelter canopy overhead and then once I've got that taken care of you know then I can go ahead and set up my sleeping arrangements all right so I've tied off to right quaky over there on my right I'm going to tie the other end off over here to this quaky on this side and I'm going to use one of those pulley style nuts so we can get some good tension on our cord because it's going to be our ridge line if our going to stay here for a few days or something or the weather was really heavy I would set up a pole between here and and I have a ridge pole rather than the ridge line okay I like I said I'm going to do a pulley style night I'm a I'm about at the end of my rope here but I have just enough to do this without adding any on but so I'm just going to do a couple twists right here then I shove this loop right here up through that loop that I made and then I'm going to go around the tree here like I said I'm right at the limit here but all I gotta do is get that in through there like that so you see I got that loop that I made put my in through there and now like maybe I'll go over that little stub right there I may wind up lowering this down just a little bit but so I got to do is like that this is a ten by ten tarp here and I fold it in half and put it over this ridge line and it's starting to come down now it's getting real so I'm going to I'm going to stake off the backside and then I'm going to throw my gear that I got I made a couple trips hauling gear down here I'm gonna throw my gear underneath there before it gets to right now it's okay it's just pellets but if it turns the rain it's getting it wet and hurry

okay here we go the winds already wanted to determine where I set this thing up but I want to determine it myself here so it's like this one right here I can drive the stake straight through the get back here a little bit Oh take this thing out of its guard might be helpful okay put that one right there and I'm right at the center point here so that's ideal now come back here to this corner now this corner here is a little bit up off the ground so I'm going to use my shot cord on here to do this one that way I can do some tension on here and still hold that edge good alright now we'll pull this one here up I'll do the same way here drive it right in okay so that gets me that set up there alright so here I'm going to just use a prusik loop like I've shown quite a few times on videos before and it's this kind of an ugly prusik loop because it's made out of some rope we were messing with some scouts with shawn amber now doing that that keeps this thing tensioned on my originated ARP I can slide it back and forth on my ridgeline a little bit which can be helpful sometimes I'd probably be fine for a poll think I'll taken now maybe nip it off about right here and incidentally that's my silky pocket boy I carry that thing everywhere I really really like it it's a very nice folder now I know this needs to be about hi to my nose or so something like that so just cut that off right there now we're going to do is put this pole in there now to make it fit over the the tie out tabs on the tarp I've I've carved that in just a little bit I did a video last year where I showed how to do that very quickly just a matter of a minute or so I give me a little peg right here that I can tie off to

so as I often like to do I'll put stuff in my mouth around full loop out there we go cause the figure-eight looking thing here so means we're good okay come back here and drive us a stake in the ground all right so I got this thing pretty well strung out here and now I'm ready to hang my sleeping quarters get that all inside of here and you know it's a nice little shelter a good thing I'm kind of where I'm at we're getting some off and on rain showers again here well here we are little bit of snow again it's a little more like small flakes now instead of pellet so I don't know we might have a nice little snow here today who knows I guess we'll just keep on going here enjoy the joy the outdoor that's what I like about this right here inside my shelter I don't have stuff followed right on me but I can see what's happening out there and just enjoy the beauty of it all all right so I've got right here this is a little gizmo we got here calling it a M top movable tie up point and it's two parts that nest together here and this part here you shove on the underside of your tarp pushing that up through this guy right here and then you slide down the locking slot now I have a tie out point here and on the inside I also have a tie up point case I want to put up a clothesline or anything like that so I got tie up points inside and out with the M top so I'm going to use it right here

to give me a tie out point on this tarp where there isn't one there is on the other side but they're not lay this tarps made they're not as symmetrical T also I just show that so y'all ready to shove that through there push down slide to lock and I can tie out right to there that's how that's how hard that is let me show you what happens when we pull back on those two tie outside just installed see it gives us more room because it pulls back away from the backside of my hammock now once I pull this one

so now you see I got a lot more interior room in there because I did that well here I am thankfully I'm in my shelter I mean the snows coming down around me and got this date up just in time I thought about doing a couple other things but I think for right now this is going to be good at least I'm least I'm out of it for the most part you know if you're out there in a snow like this a spring snow you know it can be these are what this thing's kind of freezing on the tarp a little bit so it's wet and icy and how that sort of thing you know if you're out in that yourself and not protected somehow that can be a dangerous situation even though it might not be below zero for the temperature you know it still can be hazardous because you get wet end cold so having a shelter like this is very nice and this thing is very comfortable so I'm really really enjoying it I'm just going to sit here for a little bit just watch the snow come down I believe and I've got my hammock right back there I can get out here and do stuff I'm still underneath the canopy here this way right here you actually give you some living space and that's what I really like one of the nice things I like is it gives me a way to use my my poncho as a hammock and and also still have some living space where you know I'm not just a lot of time that's not your shelter space is not necessarily just sleeping space it's just sleeping space you can get along with a lot of things but when you want to have a little bit of living space then that takes a little bit of a change in how you set things up so anyway this Perri peacock wilderness innovation stuff here join the weather whatever it is rain snow Sun windy calm warm chilly we've had them all today so that's springtime weather for you so here's a panorama shot from inside the shelter looking around looking down towards that pond over there and towards the spring that runs into the pond over there and then tight out over there well this is the weather we got about 10 or 15 minutes a clear weather and it starts raining or it starts snowing or snow pellets or sort of freezing rain it's just a little of everything today and that's that's life in the mountains here in Utah in the spring

no put it ice out there pretty nice I'm in here nice and sheltered well she's coming down pretty good now now I tell you what I should have I should have got a spot those close to my truck

I keep carting stuff back and forth for more pictures and video anyway so anyway so you see we got two regular-sized camp chairs here I could easily fit another and in here so we can do three people in here easily it's not bad at all so Dagon it's a gag I'm nice so dadgum nice shelter it's a great little thing I love it I really do I got to go home sometime out really want to