Apologies if this has been gone over before.
Took my BFF on a girls 'glamping' backpacking weekend (lots of wine in tetrapacks) to Killarney this weekend. Super hot, sunny weather, but I brought a silwing tarp along just in case it rained (there was a possibility of showers today – the weather forecasts were all over the place).
I also bought one of my older Tarptents along as I had both dogs and it's bigger, and let my BFF use my smaller Tarptent.
It's been years since I used the bigger once, and I was like 'I can take out the poles and just use hiking poles instead!' forgetting that there is a curved pole that sets up the back. I put it up, and I was like 'well, it's like a tarp, just a little low at the ends'.
Sigh.
Then I said 'eff it', used the tyvek groundsheet and set up the silwing tarp.
That was fine until this morning, when one of the hiking poles I used to help keep it up was knocked over by one of the dogs moving around on his tie out.
I'm thinking I'd like to use the tarp more for some November trips coming up, though I have to figure out a way to stop sliding down the groundsheet and out from underneath the tarp. But – if I have a site with good trees, then fine – no poles. If I don't – dogs knock over poles.
Am I the only one this happens too? What do others do?
