The Sierra Designs High Route Tent, designed to the specifications of National Geographic “Adventurer of the Year” Andrew Skurka, has a unique but straightforward pitch. With some practice, setup should take no more than five minutes for the fly and inner tent; less time is needed to set up just one of its pieces.
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Written instructions with more photos, by Andrew Skurka, goo.gl/MPAFNn.
To pitch the High Route, the fly is erected first, and the inner tent clips in afterwards. Among other benefits, this prevents rain from soaking the inside of your tent before you can get the fly over it.
For a catalog-worthy pitch, it’s critical that the footprint corners of the rectangular fly be staked out at perfect 90-degree angles. If one corner is 110 degrees and another corner is 80 degrees, the tension lines will be wonky. The guylines should be tensioned at 45 degrees off the corners, although 35-60 degrees is probably okay.
After staking out the corners, insert the trekking poles and tension the ridgeline using the guylines. The tie-outs should be paraellel to the ridgeline.
29 сен 2024