setting up tarp for shelter

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need some references on ways to use tarp for shelter for boy scout weekend camp

idea is to provide tarp and bindertwine rather than usual tent etc to see waht they can improvise...

any suggestions???
 
Conrad,

I am sure I have some pictures on CD that I can post for you to view..... I'm having trouble with my time schedule right now... how soon do you need visuals?

If you want to look at natural shelters go to my web site and into my trip pictures page. There... in each trip you will find one (if not a lot more) pictures of various natural shelter designs. These very designs can be done with tarps just by using a little line.

<a href="http://www.simply-survival.com/TripPics.htm">Simply Survival's Wilderness Education Program: Trip Pictures</a>


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What are you sheltering yourself against?

My preferred method of sleeping out of doors involves a hammock, two trees, and a tarp nearby for rain protection. I string the tarp over the hammock for rain, if I think it may be imminent, but not happening right now, I'll stake down one edge, and slide the tarp out over my feet, ready to be pulled overhead and staked.


Stryver
 
Really, you don't even need to mess with stringing it up and making a tent. Just lay the tarp flat on the ground, and put a blanket or sheet over that to make if comfy, lie down at one edge and grab the edge with a hand and your feet, and then roll till you're wrapped up like a burritto.

It'll keep the bugs and rain of, and keeps you real warm.
 
I sometimes carried a (10'x10' waterproof nylon) tarp while backpacking. The tarp has little loops sewn at the corners, sides, and several points on the inside surface of the tarp.

Often, I just loosely staked down the corners, and maybe a couple of windward edges (if wind protection was important), then took my hiking stick (or a camera tripod, if I happened to bring one), padded the top of the stick with a t-shirt or whatever) and propped up the "interior" of my shelter.

You ended up with a floorless pyramid style shelter. You could vary how tightly you staked the edges down, to adjust ventilation.

No insect protection, of course..., but lightweight and versatile.

Though I never tried it, I don't think there's any reason you couldn't set up insect netting, inside the tarp pyramid, in much the same way... leaving a loose edge to crawl in under.
 
My favorite tarp set up is to run a line corner to corner. One end of the line elevated 2-4' depending upon tarp size and other end on the ground.Stake out the sides. Try to predict the wind direction and have the lower side into the wind.
 
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