DuoMid pitching tips

Hi Brad,
For me, the key has been to get the corners staked out in a perfect taut rectangle before attempting to erect the center pole. This has fixed most of the pitching problems I had early on.

Keira demonstrates the perfect pitch

I will agree with Ike, getting a taut rectangle first makes pitching much easier. I don't even know what height I pitch the trekking pole, by the time I make camp I could care less if it matches a specified height. I staked the four corners with 4-5 inches of guyline from tension lock in a nice rectangle, with zipper open but bottom buckle still buckled, I open trekking pole flip lock and raise it until duomid nice and taut. Afterwards zip closed, and tension guy lines to nice and snug. I was doing it wrong if I spend more than 2.5 minutes setting camp. I must admit I do also cheat by keeping nettent attached 95% of the time. Good luck with it.

If you're on a non level surface it can be worse – like one corner is higher than eveyrthing else.

Hi Brad, for me the easiest was to simply peg each corner to the ground in a perfect rectangle. Then unzip, enter, and set up the pole. Close to a perfect pitch every time.

At home I staked out my DuoMid and used a tape measure to make sure the distance to each diagonal corner was the same.
I then cut a length of braided fishing line to be the length of the diagonal and attached it to one corner.
In the field I use this line to make sure my DuoMid is a perfect rectangle.
As a side benefit I can use the line for emergency repairs.

The DuoMid doesn't follow the contours of the ground very well.

I pin the rear corners directly to the ground and then guy out the front corners a few inches off the ground.

Nice pitch every time and quick.

Thanks so much everyone. Nice and simple. Eager to try this out tomorrow.

btw David, how do you guy the front corners higher off the ground?

When you're testing, intentionally guy one front corner one foot higher above the ground to see what it does to the tent pitch, to see what it look like