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    David Bizup
    Member

    @scouterinahammock

    … your pee bottle. That's where mine are. Where do you keep yours?

    And yes, I empty the bottle BEFORE packing the tent!

    #1493114
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Pee bottle?????
    What for?

    Cheers

    #1494437
    Franco Darioli
    Spectator

    @franco

    Locale: Gauche, CU.

    4 u 2 p 'n

    (edited for spelling)

    #1494486
    Dan Cunningham
    Member

    @mn-backpacker

    Locale: Land of 12,000 Loons

    Stakes go in a very tiny silnylon pouch that barely registers on my scale. Then they get rolled up with the Lunar Duo before I stuff it all into it's provided stuff sack.

    #1494507
    John Brochu
    Member

    @johnnybgood4

    Locale: New Hampshire

    I designed a little cuben fiber stuff sack with a shock cord closure that folds over and snaps around the stakes to hold them together like an elastic band. It weighs 2 grams but it's not multi-use.

    Joe must have liked my design because he's listed it for sale on his site.

    http://www.zpacks.com/accessories/stuff_sacks.shtml

    #1494521
    Nick Gatel
    BPL Member

    @ngatel

    Locale: Southern California

    John,

    I bought one of those sacks from Zpacks a couple weeks ago. Only .07 oz. I have to go with Joe's weight because by 1/10 oz scale registers zero ounces with it.

    I bought several sizes of cuben fiber sacks from him, they are incredibly light, and can now dump the pack liner.

    #1494549
    John Brochu
    Member

    @johnnybgood4

    Locale: New Hampshire

    Nick,

    Yes, his stuff sacks are excellent. I got several sizes to use for food bags along with a rock sack.

    Regarding the topic – I thought I saw a post on here where somebody was using a plastic case from a Sea to Summit dry bag as a tent stake holder.

    #1494807
    Adam Behr
    BPL Member

    @justsomeguy

    I fold a tiny piece of cardboard over the tips (to keep them from poking holes in anything) and secure it in place with a hair-tie.

    My hair's long so I always have a few extra hair-ties with me, but they're all put to use in some way or other.

    #1494809
    Kent C.
    Member

    @kent

    Locale: High Sierra

    Yes, John. I saw it too. Also an idea reusing a tube that contained candy. Here is the thread URL:

    http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=19230&skip_to_post=151081#151081

    #1494994
    Chris Chastain
    Spectator

    @thangfish

    Locale: S. Central NC, USA

    … an Aloksac ziplock and slid between the layers of my sleeping pad, which is rolled and used as a pack liner.
    Total weight 1.6oz (sack +10 stakes).

    #1495116
    David Bizup
    Member

    @scouterinahammock

    Sure, I've put stakes in a zippie or stuff sack and rolled them into my tent, tarp or pad. What I was looking for were multiuse ways to store them. Pee bottle seemed like a good idea: no chance the stakes will puncture anything, and the bottle only comes into play at night when the stakes are holding up a tent or tarp. I'm open to others.

    #1495127
    Diane “Piper” Soini
    BPL Member

    @sbhikes

    Locale: Santa Barbara

    Well, as long as you have enjoyed storing them in a plastic baggie, why not store them in a USED plastic baggie? Store them in a wrapper from an energy bar or something. Then your trash becomes multiuse.

    #1495148
    David Bizup
    Member

    @scouterinahammock

    A used baggie is re-use, not multi-use. Energy bar wrapper, not big enough, doesn't seal, no puncture resistance, gets food smell on my tent. Not gonna try that.

    Is there anything else that might work, something we carry that we use when your tent is set but not when your tent is packed?

    #1495182
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Like many others I use a light nylon stuff sack made for the stakes. But … the drawcord is strong 2 mm nylon cord (no cordlock). I often use the drawcord hooked under the top of the stakes to pull them out – like when they are frozen in place or jammed between rocks. I pull on the drawcord, NOT on the stuff sack.

    Cheers

    #1495228
    Diane “Piper” Soini
    BPL Member

    @sbhikes

    Locale: Santa Barbara

    You can wash your ziplocs and reuse them. I do not see any real difference between reuse and multiuse in a closed, finite system like a backpack.

    The hairband idea is a good one. Or use a rubber band. You never know when a rubber band might come in handy so having one onhand isn't such a bad idea. Otherwise, you could put them into a stuff sack that has something else in it already, or even store them in a pocket of the jacket you wear as you set up your tent, or roll them up in your spare socks.

    My ideas aren't very clever, but I favor simplicity whenever possible. Among the things I carry, nothing is quite the shape of the tent stakes so I would have to add something new if I didn't already have a small, silnylon sack that came with an umbrella that I have reused. Now that I've thought up the rolled socks, I may retire the silnylon sack. So thanks for helping me inadvertently!

    #1495230
    Chris Chastain
    Spectator

    @thangfish

    Locale: S. Central NC, USA

    > What I was looking for were multiuse ways to store them.

    You tote a pee bottle and you're concerned about a multi-use tent stake bag?

    Never mind.

    Edit:

    Wait, how about a SUL pee ziplock?!?!

    #1495257
    John S.
    BPL Member

    @jshann

    Thin titanium stakes could be stored (or jammed) inside your closed cell foam pad.

    #1495459
    David Bizup
    Member

    @scouterinahammock

    > You tote a pee bottle and you're concerned about a multi-use tent stake bag?

    Sorry dude. Didn't mean to get you knickers in a twist. This is the multiuse forum, and I was looking for a multiuse idea. If you don't have one no need to insult.

    This feels like WB.

    #1495477
    Chris Chastain
    Spectator

    @thangfish

    Locale: S. Central NC, USA

    > This feels like WB.

    Ok, I'll bite.
    What's WB?

    #1495483
    Dan Cunningham
    Member

    @mn-backpacker

    Locale: Land of 12,000 Loons

    WB = White blaze… don't bother.

    #1495488
    Boozer
    BPL Member

    @anywayoutside

    Locale: South East

    Really….Dan means it. Forget it was even mentioned.

    #1495489
    Chris Chastain
    Spectator

    @thangfish

    Locale: S. Central NC, USA

    Okee dokee
    Gracias!

    #1495491
    Lynn Tramper
    Member

    @retropump

    Locale: The Antipodes of La Coruna

    "Pee bottle?????
    What for?"

    "4 u 2 p 'n"

    I would call that a true 'multiuse' item given the number of times I often need to pee each night!

    ;)

    I keep our tent stakes in a Caldera Caddy. Two of the stakes are also multiuse to hold the pot over the Ti-Tri Caldera Cone.

    #1496857
    Eric Eaton
    Member

    @ericeaton

    I carry one pointy large Ti stake (I think from EMS) that fits nicely through the hole in my LMF SUL Long Handle spoon and then fills the space created by the bend in the handle. Then I rubber band the rest around that.

    #1497474
    Russell Swanson
    Member

    @rswanson

    Locale: Midatlantic

    …my tarp. I wrap my tarp up around them by tying a guyline around the bundle of stakes, then winding the tarp around them into a bundle. It also makes the tarp easier to unfurl with a weighted end. If you tie the stakes in right, you can actually toss the end out to unfurl the whole tarp.

    On the White Blaze tip, as long as you can stomach/ignore the old timers and local ruffians with attitudes it's THE resource for the Appalachian Trail. If you want to know what a particular shelter is like, where the best view in Pennsylvania is along the trail, what restaurant to eat in near the trail in Catawba, Virginia- then just post it on WB. Someone will give you accurate info. If you want to talk gear, stick with BPL.

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