Shelters

When camping, you need somewhere safe to put your stuff and to sleep. A tent is a great shelter, but you need to carry it with you, so maybe not the greatest idea for a hike, depending on which tent you own. The Ideal shelter for me is a shelter that is strong, easy to set up, reliable, and comfortable. The other day, I tested out an A-frame shelter with a tarp & rope.

This is what my shelter looked like in the morning. I roll around a lot in my sleep. also, the tarp collapsed to the center of my rope. This is not good, but if you get a few clips to hold the tarp in place on the rope, it will work much better.

When you think of Shelters, you may think of tents, or tarp and rope thrown up between two trees, but the most important thing for making a strong, durable shelter it to have a strong frame. You will probably want to make that with spars(long pieces of wood; strong.). Whether you are building a shelter putting a tarp over your picnic table, you are going to need rope. Then, you can use sticks, trees, spare tent pegs or spars, depending on what you have accessible to you.