SURVIVE ANY STORM 5 Fully Enclosed Tarp Pitches 

5 basic tarp pitches for camping and bushcraft ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K_r-3YLmm5g.html no ridgline no problem 5 tarp pitches you can do anywhere ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S-nR6Ls0a40.html survive any storm 5 fully enclosed tarp pitches ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eqxL2Dlrp60.html 8 tarp pitches with a ridgeline ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z7Wvu3nVH0A.html aquaquest quest 10x10 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5_LzJNpqnlw.html no nonsense knots ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1n-4nPmFHFw.html

IMPRESSIVE! ! ! I've been using tarps and camping for over 50yrs and this is one of the best explanations of the use of a tarp that I've ever seen. Well done mate!

I was impressed that you left in the mistakes and showed that you needed alterations as someone doing this for the first time would otherwise be discouraged that they aren't getting it first time. I love using my tarps and really enjoyed the video. Thanks.

I was most entertained by your honest feed back thank you for showing this dog some old tricks

JTD: I highly recommend practicing in your back yard where i am today. My Brain at 2AM: Holy shit! Someone's in my back yard!

So cool you can have different tent models. Great skills

Excellent vid brother - these types of demonstrations are needed with all the weather changes 👍🏼

Really showcasing the versatility of a tarp... inspires me to really look at my tiedown options when shopping for the tarp. Definitely something for my Go Bag. My bag is always on me, always ready to survive out in the wilderness because you never know when you just gotta run and keep light.

Best Ever. Will be practicing each one!

I think the second pitch was the simplest set up. Quick and easy. Thanks man.

Outstanding job showing these off, I definitely learned some I've never seen. I need to practice some of these bombproof pitches. Thanks Jeff 👍

I love the creativity but truthfully it's the knowledge applied that gives a life saving versatility.. Great job guy you increased my awareness with 1 square light weight tarp..very good.

stake it out baby! thanks for the knowledge!!

This was just what I needed. I'm starting to get into tarp camping and needed to up my game with a decent pitch other than "lean-to" or "A-frame." I liked the last two the best for my needs and preferences. I'll practice them both and see which I like the best. But with repititon I'm sure both will be committed to memory. Thanks! Really well filmed, presented and edited!

An excellent tent up off the ground with the bedding allways !

I love that you tell us what is the back and what is the front before you set it up - so that I can save it properly to my memory (also great finding another Papa Hiker fan!)

Sweet. Nice job thanks

New tarps, and this is by far the best demonstration of use I've come across to date. Thank you! I've seen the comments re midge and tics, you cant please everyone... Rechargable lamps are cheap enough to purchase online as a solution. Thanks again 🤓🙏❤️

I make a one-person storm shelter over a camping hammock that keeps me off the ground and away from roots and rocks, moisture if it rains or snows, and most creepy crawly critters. I use a Kelty Noah's Tarp, and basically the same stakes and paracord that you use, plus one long piece of paracord for a ridgeline. With both ends of the storm shelter closed, it keeps out the wind or blowing rain and snow, and one or both ends can be left open in fair weather. However, your setups are nice to know if there is nowhere suitable to hang a hammock.

Guess I'm going to have to give in and finally get some trekking poles. In 15 years or so of hauling very heavy loads through dense forests and steep rocky terrain I have yet to sustain an injury. But as I get older I am realizing the only reason I never even tried them has been some kind of vanity. There's literally no reason to not double your contact points when they "weigh" practically nothing. Sure, I've used branches to assist in rough climbs and sketchy descents but after dropping them I always think, "man, that would have been way harder without that branch" Just saying it's funny how even with experience, stubbornness tends to be... immature, I think. Great little video, thanks for sharing. 🤙

Excellent! Thank You

I've downloaded this to watch later as I'm looking for this kind of set up. Thanks!

Brilliant work young man,,

Thank you for sharing. Those are super cool configurations!

My favorite emergency shelter configuration is a lop sided pyramid. It looks like a plow point with doors. Tie the center of one side to a tree or ridge line or trekking pole. Secure the two adjacent corners directly below the peak. Then stake the two remaining corners. If you use a hiking pole, you can place the wrist strap through the peak edge and the point through the base corners directly below the peak and guy it.

Great and informative video. The first pitch, to me, looks the most useable (for me). Thanks for sharing

Awesome mate! I thought I knew them all but nope... Never to old to learn right :-) Thanks again.

Thanks for sharing brother. Learned a new way to set up watching this video.

Solid instructional video! Thanks!

Thank you so much! Exactly the video I was looking for!!

Excellent video great content 👌

I like big footprint one very much. Great for when guests trek along I think. I will try it and add it to the current 2 I use. It's great to learn new things thank you😊👍

Your video is great. Thanks. Please put a link in the description for written instructions for these. Thanks. Good job!

Much thanks and appreciation !

This tarp stuff is interesting as hell. kinda put off by the naysayers. I saved this to my playlist. This is neat stuff! Haven't ever tried tarps but I think I'm gonna get one, a few stakes and some paracord and give some of this stuff a whirl.

Nice. Tight instructional. Options! We've got lots of options! Thanks amigo, from New Mexico. I'm still using my leftover jet line from electrical conduit work to tie things down, or up, and the caliche here requires a hammer sometimes to get stakes in, but I've got a LOT of hammers. I mean a lot.

Ive used the diamond [easiest setup] and the trapezoid pyramid. I've always had to adjust and mess with that one, but I like it. I open the foor side as an awning when the weather is nicer.

Great content. I always learn something, but this was better than most 😎

no ridge line no problem 5 pitches ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S-nR6Ls0a40.html 8 tarp pitches with a ridgeline ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z7Wvu3nVH0A.html

Like the tarp tent pitches in your video. I prefer using tents with a floor to keep out the water out. Have had many times where the water 2- 3 inches deep outside the tent.

Very helpful. Thank you sir

Really clever. Thanks

Great stuff, wished you’d walk around the tent from outside to get a better idea of shape

Thanks, great ideas!

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Some of those setups are pretty slick. I'll definitely have to try them. If it hasn't already been suggested or you haven't tried it already. Try the third setup with only stakes. The paracord seems like it gives the tarp to much play and allows the tarp to leave the ground. Is there something I'm missing on why you like paracord with these setups? Air flow maybe. Either way. Great setups and I enjoyed the video.

Thanks dude! That plane was timely. ; )

Greetings from Norway. Great video!

Great setup!

I've been rained out several times mountain sides low areas ! Dang i camp every year ! Ive gotten better at this tho a plan b always allows for a go to when it gets rough 😊

Excellent... First I need to add 8 more tie out loops to my cheaper tarp... and practice...

(Sounded like WWII prop engines. P 51s?) Great video. Very step by step. Great to learn from. I'd suggest anyone new to this to choose one of these set ups (the first, maybe the last) and just go out and practice setting up over and over again. Mark the corners, prettie paracord to the tarp in places you expect to place guylines and stakes. Use different colors. (I don't tie stakes I have bowline loops that I poke the stake through, turn it around to put some loops around the stake. When I set up my tarp tent I usually never tie a single knot. Adjust a stake? Just move it. (I've bought all those fancy adjusters, etc, etc... let me save you some money. You don't need them, they slow you down, they don't do anything you can't do yourself with paracord, the bowline, clove hitch, half hitches, maybe the alpine butterfly.) If I temporarily add another line I'll usually just attach it to a loop or stake using a clove hitch. The tent cords in this video look very frayed at the ends. not a big deal, but the core is going to slip out. Always best to melt those ends. I usually heat them up and then pull the line through a rag or paper towel to taper the end. A big melt knuckle is going to hang up on something. (I'm a sailor now, learned quite a few more knots, so naw you don't need to be a First Class Scout to go camping.) Those tails on your stakes? When I was trekking in England I lost 2 or 3 stakes in the first two days. I realized the dark red ones, exactly like yours, I didn't lose. The ones I lost were brighter. Hmmmm. It was the tails! So I put orange paracord tails on the rest of my stakes. In two more months of camping I never lost another stake. Back at home and on my boat I taped bright color 'construction ribbon' tails to my TV remotes, small easily lost stuff. Works great. On that first set up. That was similar to what I did with a Frankenstein hex tarp tent I made. (Started as a hex fly, then I made it longer, then a bit wider, then longer. So ugly it would scare bears, but it worked. One huge strength of tarp tents is they're all triangles. Sturdy in the wind. I pre tied a main line with loops for my hiking poles with stake outs, So this is what I'd do first. The way I tied to the handles of my poles was just to stick the pole through the loop and turn it around a couple times. Same with stakes. No one would let me teach this to boy scouts, a video would look deranged, but it worked. I'd set up in about a minute. 6-8 stakes, no tying, no adjusting. I also left the pretied lines hanging off my tarp. No D rings or grommets. Instead Grosgrain loops. along the perimeter. Again a couple of turns on a stake, poke it in the ground. Also on a symmetrical tarp such as yours I might hit two kittycorner (diagonals) with some spray paint so even if I'm using a headlamp I can orient the tarp. (Do the same thing with my fitted sheets at home, just not with spray paint.) Another thing I'd do for any tarp tent. Sew some loops onto your sleeping bag or bivy so you can tie them to some stakes. Any minimal slope and I'd wake up the bottom of my sleeping bag sticking two feet out of the down slope. One thing about a tarp tent: you have 360 degrees of exits, no floor, so I'd make my coffee, cook inside. I don't even want to use my JetBoil in the vestibule of a regular tent. tie paracord to the tarp in places you expect to place guylines and stakes. (I don't tie stakes I have bowline loops that I poke the stake through, turn it around to put some loops around the stake. Hope this helps. When I started setting up camp in a minute, knocking it down in the morning in two minutes, after cold instant coffee, and I didn't bother taking any food for 36 hours, and no campfire. When my sleeping bag was just a loose clump on the back of my pack - so it airs out, I figured I finally knew what I was doing. I don't go camping that much any more , I don't think I've had a campfire in over ten years. At this point camping wasn't this big ritual it was just the way I over nighted outdoors.

I'm sure with practice, these pitches become efficient-nice for foul weather. However, if I get behind schedule and a front is moving in, its raining, the wind is blowing and cold and dark is setting in, I would prefer more fundamental pitches that are easier to set up and are robust enough for foul weather. I really don't want to be messing around with multiple strands of paracord and specific tie outs as the cold wind is blowing and it's raining. But, I've only seen one of these geometries before I appreciate your insights and new info! Thanks!

Love it! Gonna practice😊 ty 4 sharing

You should edit this upload to where it adds the tarp size that you're using in the video it'll help people have a better understanding. Just a suggestion

You need to melt the ends of your paracord to stop them from fraying. Nice video!!

Thanks!

On the third pitch, would halving the guy lines not drop that down some while still leaving a gap for airflow/condensation control? Also have you tried the pyramid pitch? It's very simple, stake your back 2 corners, bring the front 2 together, stake and place the center pole...no guy lines, less stakes, less weight. Fully enclosed door or guy it open.

Is there a benefit to using the lengths of paracord rather than staking the tarp directly to the ground? Seems like the large air gaps on many of the designs would make cold, windy days uncomfortable. Is it better for warm weather camping?

I love these setups. At 75 I am not sure why I am watching. It would likely cripple me. Seriously though, I would love to try this and I have the tarps but my issue is snakes, scopions and spiders...we have all three here in Louisiana and I would really feel uncomfortable sleeping without a floor and bathtub. In my area we have butt loads of cottonmouth, copperheads and canebreak rattlers. But it sure looks like it would be fun. Thanks for sharing youor knowledge.

Why in this day of UHMWPE ropes, would anyone use para-cord in any lightweight application?

Enjoyed the 5 pitches. Please tell me what is the maker of the 10 x 10 tarp that you used in the video? About how much does it cost? Thanks, Greg

I think that using paracord does allow for ventilation but just using steaks alone to pin down the tarp tie offs would be less app to be a problem in cold or windy weather.

Good morning. Why always the paracord on the stakes and not just stake the grommet?

I have a few questions. One why couldn't you just stake the tarp directly to the ground through the loops? What material is your tarp made of? I thought that some of those configurations would be nice if you are planning on camping in an area that doesn't get very cold at night, but if it does the draft coming underneath those gaps between the ground and your tarp would freeze you, don't you think?

Great job ! I'll try it asap ! And your Tarp looks very nice do you have the ref ? Have a nice dayyy !

Just found YOURE channel I subbed good information

An old army trick to make this oh so much quicker! Bungy cords! 👍 Yes heavier than carrying cord but so worth it. Also not having to go out numerous times to check guy lines, as long as pegs are fixed firmly, no need.

wow! so many pitching types can be made. by the way, can i do these using 2mx3m tarp?

what tarp is this ?? love the Idea

Awesome video! I’ve seen a million tarp videos, but yours had set ups I haven’t seen before. What tarp is that? I’ve been looking for a 10x10 in that shade of OD. The DD tarps I’ve looked at appear too bright.

Great vid you should check out the TNT Ultra tarp 10x10 comes in at 12oz and way more abrasion resistant, think it's like 250 tho lol lot cheaper than dynemma

I think the star pitch would be good if you are doing a little stealth camping or just want to be hidden.

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I am still trying to decide between a minimalist shaped tarp and a rectangular tarp. It’s obvious that the rectangular tarp is much more versatile, while a shaped tarp saves weight. So for sketchy forecast trips a square tarp is the way to go.

Whats the Reason behind the Paracord? If you carry Metalstakes with you, just put them directly into the Tarploops?

What size tarp is that? I have a 3mx3m tarp and i was wondering if thats the size you used and if not do these still work on a 3mx3m size?

how do you prevent the rain from getting in from under the tarp?

I wonder whether that first configuration would work with a rectangular tarp. I'm going tarp tent camping for the first time next week, and I really don't want to take my heavy duty tarpaulin (2×3) to attach a door to a more open construction.

A park Ranger?😸👍

Great info. Did I miss you mention the dimensions of the tarp?

Do you have any pitching tips for a tarp that isnt a square?

I do admit that all these 5 set up are very uncommon and I do believe they can hold under strong wind or heavy rain. However, these set ups ( to me ) are just like holding an umbrella under heavy rain .... my upper body can be kept dry but my lower body got all wet as there are NO FLOORING to keep the inside DRY. Besides, I can see there are many gaps of at least 1 - 2 inches between the tarp and the ground where small animals like bugs, rats or even snakes could easily get in and endanger people inside. A 10' x 10' tarp can be used to set up a tent with flooring for 2 person which I prefer .... Just a little comment and Thanks for sharing !

questsion, leaving lots of your tarp unpegged will make it float with the wind more easily right, any reason you left plent of tie outs unpegged?

Noob question, why can't you put the stake directly into the tarp loop, skipping the cord?

Tarpagami!!😀 I was wondering how long the different lengths of paracord used are?

interesting but a 360 of each shelter from inside and out woulda helped more

Have you written any small instructional, hike, waterproof book.

Excellent tips. Still. It’s doubtful any of us will remember how to do that in the field. Hopefully we have cell phone service and could review your video.

but what about bugs? as all of these look like they will have no problem allowing in blood suckers. thats more of a problem here than rain. cal. but i do like this. i do not hike so no trekking poles most of the time. hands are used to carry “other” gear tube does not like.

@PapaHiker would be proud

thanks jeff. what type of tarp is this brand

Would be helpful to show finished shape first, then build each one.

It's each not either. Either means one OR the other, not both so the correct word is each, which means both. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, just sharing mine.

I bought a tent for damn near 100 dollars when a tarp can do the same thing.

I just don't see how these are "rain proof" unless the tent is set up on a perfect knoll.

Bonjour wich tarp size ?

What about side wind- rain. And water coming underneath?

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What dimensions is the tarp sweetie???