Kered.org/Blog » outdoors http://kered.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:25:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Tent Stakes in Sand http://kered.org/blog/2009-07-02/tent-stakes-in-sand/ http://kered.org/blog/2009-07-02/tent-stakes-in-sand/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:36:14 +0000 derek http://kered.org/blog/?p=116 My bivy tent is so low profile, I’ve never had a problem with wind when beach camping as long as I’ve had some oversized steel stakes ($2 for 4 at Walmart). But my dome tent is more problematic, as Lingyan and I learned in South Padre over memorial day.

So a little googling led me to “deadman anchors”, which are basically anything buried in the ground. A basic design is some angle iron and steel cable. So a trip to Lowes and a few minutes assembly, and I have the following:

deadman anchors

1 4ft piece of aluminium angle iron, cut into 4 6″ sections. 4 3ft sections of 1/16″ steel braded cable. 4 eye loops, and 4 pairs of cable crimps. <$15 total.

We’re beaching camping again this weekend at Mustang Island. Will update with how well they worked.

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