Tarp camping in the winter with a “dugout”?? thoughts?

I think you should be fine. We just got back from an 8 day trip in Canada and we all used flat tarps…many from Oware. Not sure on how to pitch a cat tarp, but we all had fun digging out our shelters. Some people got pretty fancy. My favorite setup was a sleeping shelf – next to a snow lazyboy (back support from my snowshoes) and a cooking platform – all under a flying diamond with a beak pitch.

enjoy,

Dave

I don't suppose you have some pictures of your favorite setup, by any chance?

I should have taken more pics, so I will remember how I did it for next year.

Here is the pitch in Jan with not much snow.

and if Feb with a dugout.

Found that the best for me was a sleeping platform on one side and the sled on the other with a lounger in the center. The cooking platform was setup under the beak

I'll get better pics next year

Dave

That's a bit of a bummer, but the pics you showed are still enough to give some idea as to how you pitched your tarp. I was asking in order to get some ideas to try out in the future, since I don't have that much experience pitching flat tarps yet :)

Thanks!

Here is the standard flying diamond:

To do the beak – you have to have mid-panel guyouts on the diagonals. I only use this if I really need to hunker down…wind or snow stoms

Hope this helps. I have an old bushman's document on tarps in a PDF if you want – just pm me

Dave