How to Setup A Tarp with a Ridgeline

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors explains the nuances of setting up a tarp with a ridgeline.

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hey what's up Turtles its Creek here with black outdoors today I'm going to be doing a video showing how to put up a tarp and secure it on a ridge line using stakes or any other object you can find the woods and they'll make a little bit more sense once I show you my style and preference of sort of dying out a Ridgeline or a tent guidelines on a 10 or a tarp what I have here is is OD green Eno sort of specifically made for hammock camping design of the tarp but anything I want to do in this video it will it'll apply to a tarp as long as has grommets in it you can use anything I'm going to show you for like a square tarp or a rectangular tarp I'm going to pull the tarp out I have all my guidelines already attached to it and little hangs here at the end which is really nice I don't the you know each time put up my tarp don't have to try to find or you know bring out new guidelines bring out quarters cut down the size I have attached on my tarp ready to go when I need it try to open this up get it over the ridgeline without really letting it hit the ground it's important definitely don't want to pull in your in your tarp that's supposed to be rain first sort of trying to make sense of it before I toss it up over the ridge line and it's nice to have a ridgelines putting up as part because yeah I can do just that I can put it up get off the put it off with ground most of it most of the way and work it where it needs to be

all right sort of got roughly where I wanted on the ridge line now I'm just going to attach the tarp to the ridge line using a prusik hitch which I've already done a video on but basically oppress a catch so I'm not going to explain it in depth to do it multiple times the sake of this video there's more of a in depth video on it this cordage is a little funky but it definitely will work make sure it's neat when I get it down to Omar

and you really want to take the time as you're setting up camp just in case you know a crazy storm comes through you're not expecting anything like that you really want to spend the time when you're setting up the camp to really make a bomb-proof so last thing you want to do is be on a hike away from your camp a day hike come back in your tents blown away your tarps all torn the crap anything like that to spend the time when you're setting it up just make sure you do it right make it shorts really secure all that there's a prostate cancer on the ridgeline now to secure it to the tarp I'm just going to go through here here or this particular style I could go around this as well let me use this plastic sentence on it and then to secure it here I'm just going to do just do a square knot or a reef knot and then that secures it to the line I'm going to repeat this process on the other end

you guys fire on the ribs on quarters matches my shirt I like it make sure it's clean it's tight where I want it on the ridgeline good to go now I'm not going to I'm not going to tension this you know really crazy on the ridge line right now cart because there's still I got to get my guidelines out and as I'm going through it to get it really where I wanted at the end all this is adjustable with through the method I have with with my guidelines which I'll get into right now when I grab little mistakes over here Tim in the ground and show you actually stay there grab a rock so I've already done a video on how to learn how to use how to make a steak like this if you don't if you're not going to bring any with you so we're just going to eyeball the tich i one of my of my part and what's nice about how what I'm going to do is I can just put the put the stake in where I want it and I can deal with the guyline doing that around it and later I'm gonna put this out a little bit of an angle away from the tarp away from where I'm going to sort of set out an angle like this in the ground I already have already have a taut line hitch on this one and I've done a video on how to do this I think there's a maybe one or two of them don't have any I'll show you how to talk when I get to them but reason why I like this taut line hitch is have my stake in the ground pretty much kind of where I want it I actually hold the two course the skirt reporters might be a little too close but then basically I can just loop this around the stake and then just slide the hitch over the static end to tighten this up and this way I'm not fussing now on the room this is a little bit longer than on one but what I can do sort of gauge it and back the stake up then and this is all trial and error you know yeah I got that wrong the first time at the stake but that's just how it goes

trial and error you can see how that's tension in that now I'm not going to get this super tight yet so I want to get all the other stakes up and the rocks all good stuff well this end over here I'm going to use this rock in case you're in a sort of desert desert climate and you can't get into the ground with the stake or really hard compacted surface you can use a rock you can use a buck log you could use anything that has weight that's going to help and I'll show you in a minute once I get this out how that taut line hitch works it over a rock yeah this one doesn't have it in it Montag one real quick open this up a little bit if you want to almost die if you can pick this up from over there and this poem that's going to set the weight of the rock in this loop I've made with my hitch tighten up a little bit if I want and then just pull the weight on the rock where it means to me

but over here I might need a bag just stake up again probably will that's okay I'll do that now so I'll probably need to do at the end I can just tell with where it is that's alright this is the child in there like I said as it goes when you're putting up the tent you tarp for the first couple times I need to I can adjust attention then to someone let this go a little bit get the other one I'm gonna move on to the other side another steak already made here come around behind you staring down to this bed same thing over here to the cage where I want it where state might need to be this one doesn't have one either oh yeah it does things put this have this little loop in the end of it from the top line put this around my stake in secure hold the hitch pinching that puppy up and dry my pack just to show you why I really like this taut line hitch on the end of a guy line obviously for training you don't want your pack out hanging unprotected but the point is you can go around larger objects it's really versatile using a taut line hitch on a guide line this one doesn't have one either in the tight real quick and go around my legs this is how I learned it so keep things straight in my head make it clean and some cordage is much more forgiving and easier to do certain hitches and knots with that this one works okay this type of cordage came with the tarp open up the sloop now sort of eyeball it where I kind of want it I'm gonna go back and do a fine-tuned adjustment once I get you know my anchor points kind of where I want them so the tarp is not going to be at it's sort of final resting place now but pull my bag through this loop I have another anchor point and just by pulling this where I want it to wait and saw how attention it I can see now that's all my anchor point stunts Tony if you want to try to get off this show or if me you can see it under here you can see how there's not a lot of you can see how this isn't quite taut still a lot of play in it I can do a couple things to compensate for that what I want to do first is I want to come around you hear this this taut line right here I want to take a little bit of tension off of that which is going to bring the bridge to talk the ridgeline up and it's going to take a little tension so I can go over here adjust and sort of Center Center this seem sort of Center this seam here you see it's not right on our ridge line it's hanging I can do that you know sort of opening that up holding in there and then adjusting my different anchor point that looks pretty close I'm going to take my prostate catches and bring this up a little bit and that's just going to start item and go to the other end I'd like to kind of sort of think if you're going to be doing it like this to you know kind of work your way around it evenly you need to adjust it just want to get behind sort of give a lookout

see how this is not quite as hard as I wanted I really don't want it like that so what I might do bring my steak in little bit closer much better much better in my eyes at least you can to see with the level of the ridgeline how much I'm really pulling down on that to really secure my part but that's what you want like I said now I'll just continue to do this to go back fine tune it off really adjust it where I want it but this is basically you know sort of how you'd fine-tune it how you walk around it kind of how you want to see the angles you want to make sure it's got a nice pitch and it's really taught you imagine if waters hitting you just want to see the water come off at an angle and just be able to shed you don't want your mm tarp being really loose any of that bad stuff but this is Crick signing out with blak outdoors later Turtles