Mar 26 • AFTER-ACTION REPORTS
Weekly Challenge - Week March 22-28 - Unsupported Shelter
I spent a couple hours this afternoon working the shelter challenge I posted earlier this week. While working on the unsupported plow-point shelter it became that a ridgeline needed to be tensioned. The best knot proved to be the time honored truckers hitch. At least for the diamond. The 25’ ridgeline was too short for the tarp tent. I was able to apply a marlinspike hitch to tension the system. These two shelters took about an hour and one-half. Starting from a place of no staged material, it is going to take multiple repetitions to bring the time down to a reasonable time.
Unsupported shelter configuration is important to me because when hiking or working in the woods, when are you going to find two perfect trees, with the correct spacing and orientation. Unsupported configuration gets around both of these limitations. Tension and original placement are critical.
Questions? Pointers?! Thank you.
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Weekly Challenge - Week March 22-28 - Unsupported Shelter
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