Backpacker Magazine – The Manual: Delux Winter Camping, Pitch Your Tent

December 2, 2009

“Snowy site? Here’s how John Gookin, coauthor of NOLS Winter Camping,
stomps out a perfect camp: 1. Flatten an area twice the size of your
tent’s footprint with your skis or snowshoes. 2. Lay out the tent (but
don’t pitch it yet), then dig trenches for deadman anchors. Make the
trenches six to 12 inches deep, a foot away from each corner. Gookin’s
deadman of choice is a smooth, two-foot-long stick because you can pull the line and leave the stick
behind (stakes, trekking or ski poles, and snow-filled stuffsacks also
work). Place them perpendicular to the line of pull…” Read the full article at Backpacker.com.

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William Roth

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