Tarp camping in awful weather: yes it's possible with these 5 enclosed setups 

Your penciled diagrams on HOW to stake out the different tarp configurations is what makes this video stand out from the rest.

I've been tarp camping for 35 years and I learned heaps from this video. Which just goes to show you never stop learning!

Hey guys, pretty stoked to finally have uploaded this video. The first three pitches are my own design and I worked on them for a while. Using these pitches, I believe anyone could camp succesfully with a flat tarp. Please share and promote this video and spread the word! Thank you all my subscribers, really happy with you. Kind regards, Papa hiker

#1 0:29 trapezoid pyramid #2 3:20 lengthwise pyramid #3 4:43 strong hexamid #4 7:51 star pyramid #5 10:18 low tetra

The drawings alone got a thumbs up from me. So helpful!

Love how you use diagrams to help with our understanding the pitch.. New Sub ✌️

I always come back to your vids for refresher course depending on the conditions of the environment & my situation. Thx

This is the best tarp shelter video on youtube that I've ever seen.

Thank you for the excellent and relevant material on the installation options for 3x3m awning. This is the best I've seen on this topic! I hope in the new season, after quarantine, to experience in nature.

Maestro! These are the best, most knowledgeable tarp videos on RU-vid. Thank you. You've cleared up many things on pitches for me.

You have inspired me to keep working on bad weather tarping. Your diagrams for the first four of these pitches are now in my little field book; the details of each pitch can get muddled in my head but your diagrams help so very very much. Can’t thank you enough! I bet I won’t come home so wet next time! All of your videos are well done and you are great at explaining things. Most of your tarp videos have been on repeat because they are the best out there.

Your foul weather tarp configurations are fantastic! Much appreciated, as I bought a DD 3 x 3 tarp the other day in case of emergencies while day hiking, and your designs are excellent for harsh weather (-especially with strong winds). * subscribed *

Great video. I always like learning different types of tarp set ups as they each seem to have their own pros and cons.

This is fascinating. It's where camping meets the art of origami.

Your video helped me a lot. It's great how you show it on the sketches. Thanks for the video! :)

Thank you!! I've only ever used a tent, but your video has opened my mind to an alternative. Could be the start of a whole new adventure...

excellent! Ive aways used a tent or a hammock, but recently acquired a pretty nice kelt tarp that hasn't been out of the bag it came in, I wanna start practicing some of these pitches soon! thanks

Hey, i love the pitches you showed. Keep up the good work dude! If i could also add to something, about that pitch you did, the three sided pyramid one. I found the best success if using a 8x8 ft DD tarp. If you stake two loops in and fold it over itself, you create a nice half floor for your bivvy and the height is PERFECT for a standard trekking pole. So far it comfortably fits me, a 5 ft 5 inches tall man child and my 2 yr old son alongside my day pack. Just some insight, none the less i love your work. Ty for teaching all these useful pitches

Great video, gotta save it for future reference👍🏼 thank you

These are AWESOME. Thank you! I needed to find a tarp 10x10 tent set up that's just for emergencies - in rainy and windy Oregon. These will work great. Can't wait to tey them out. Thanks!

Best tarp set up videos I've seen

I love this and I LOVE how he stands there and looks around on the second one before he places each steak! This is awesome! Great job brother!!!

Oh I must practice these set-up ! Thank you Papa Hiker !

It's coolest setups that I seen before! Thanks.

Tried them all today on my lawn. Very simple to do and takes almost no time at all. Thanks

Excellent video, thank you sharing these innovative and strong tarp structures with instruction!

Excellent video -- very well thought out series of pitches. Thanks!

Great video - very well explained with the paper diagrams - Cheers

Thanks a lot for this video man. I have been looking for a video like this for a long time. Thanks for taking the time to do it. Can't wait to give it a try.

Every man needs a good pitch. Thanks for the video.

Excellent pitches; better instructions; best video!!! God bless you and yours!!!! Chuck Knight from Buffalo, Texas, USA. 🤠🐩🖖✝️🙏

thank you for sharing have a safe Summer 👍

By fare the best tarp video I have found

Thanks! Mr. Really the best video tutorial

Very good ideas! Thanks!☺

Thank you! Great info!

Absolutely outstanding video. Thanks a lot

really good made pitches and video, thank you...i have now to try this with the 4x4 Tarp for "glamping" :-) or with the new 5x5? beer-tent :-) or group tent at meetings with friends...of course with longer poles..

PH , thanks for sharing, great information 👍

Enjoyed the video keep up the good work

Well earned sub. I stumbled upon your videos in the past but didn’t recognize the genius. Thankfully I’ve been brought back, and I hope you keep making content. Step forth in beauty grandmaster

These all look good for cold weather and snow if staked down.

Brilliant, thanks for posting I learnt a lot from your video and the drawings are a awesome add to a great video.

Excellent vid. Thanks. Great work.

Thank U for the Info and the Links 👍

Fantastic video 👍🏼

Amazing Video, thanks a lot! Really appreciate your effort

This is the best tarp vid going, thx for the diagrams too👍

When I purchase a 10 x 10 tarp I had no idea there were so many set ups. Great video thank you

Great video Thank you

This is great.I putt this in to my song list so i don t loose it.Thanks.

Thanks, very clear and helpful.

Use a cup over the center post. Great setups, Thank You.

Hoi Papa Hiker. Dank voor de pitches. Onlangs vreselijk slecht weer gehad in NZ en Tasmanië en man o man, wat was ik blij dat ik wat stevige set-ups wist (dankzij jou dus)!

Thank you, so useful - agree that the diagrams really help clarify!

High P. h., these are good bad-weather.setups. Thank you for showing. Kindly Fiete

Nice job on the video. You made it easy to learn from

love seeing videos with everyday tarps no need to go buy a fancy expensive tarp

I love all the pitches!

Nice tarp setups and very nice dog ;)

Goede video!

Thanks for this! I’ve been struggling with pitching my tarp. I tried the last configuration before I saw this video and it was a total disaster! It just did not work for me and the door was painful to use. I think I’ll try your other suggestions. They seem much better. Your diagrams are fantastic!

Great video great advice and useful information .

Thanks a lot for sharing your know-hows.

Korte, helder en compleet. The Dutch once ruled the world with guys like this

North Gods with us! Thanks for the good ideas..will try some in my next trips) Greetings from Rus🙋

Tarps are the best for shelters , as they are so flexable ,I have used one for years.

Thank You ..

You are a Tarp Master!!

Good pitches.

I tried the hexamid a little modified for the place configuration. It was near the wind power plant and the wind was crazy. I had no problem with that! Was great

I would like to see you do a video on a rainy day with the trapezoid pyramid. Thank you for the video, I keep watching them over and over.

Thanks a lot Papa hiker !!! i much learn from your Great video !!!! 🙌

Great video!

Great channel, new subscriber, thanks for the videos!

Hi Papa, I like your diagrams before getting on with the setup. These setups suit some of the Australian conditions where a little air flow is required. Particularly where you open up the front. Thanks.

Well made and very instructional video - thank You! My take on awful weather tarping: Find a spot that is at least a bit protected and pitch/fly your tarp with as much ventilation as possible to prevent condensation & a damp sleeping bag. At least in the forest this works well for me. ATB Gereon

Very nice video, learned a lot. I like the way you say ‘pitch’ , because it sounds like something else 😉. Also, I like the dreamy Pink Floyd-like music. Thanks much for video!

thank you for uploading your videos 🌲🦅🌲

NICE

Thank you for sharing, Learned a lot. Would like you to show us how compact(Volume) a 3x3 m tarp looks like. Also the weight of your tarp knowing that this depends on the type of fabric you use. thanks again

Just got back from a weekend of sleeping on Dartmoor in gale force winds. Normally I stick to the Low Tetra pitch but this video had sold me on the idea of the Lengthwise Pyramid. Previously with the Low Tetra I'd found it to be less than ideal in stronger winds and space to be a bit tight (using only a single pole), so on my first night I tried the Lengthwise Pyramid with inverted V poles: complete nightmare! Those flaps on the side just created pockets that caught the wind and yanked the stakes out of the ground no matter what I did with them. I tried them outside as per your full length video on this pitch. It was slightly better, but still very flappy, and then the wind changed direction and I was back at square one. Most of the panels were too flappy no matter what I did and I got zero sleep. In less severe wind, and when you can be sure which direction the wind is going to come from, I could see it being a great pitch (it's very roomy) but in really severe or unpredictable weather I just don't rate it. When I got up in the morning I took the opportunity to also try out the Trapezoid Pyramid. It too struggled in the wind with each panel billowing in and out so much that it would have been impossible to sleep in. For comparison I then tried my usual go-to option: the Low Tetra. It was solid as a rock! So night two I knew the wind was going to be even worse due to where I was camping, and so I went with the Low Tetra with inverted V poles, took my time to get everything as tight as it could possibly be, and pitched it hard against the ground to prevent the wind getting under and lifting it. I also made a modification that I've never seen before: I used a length of paracord on the risers to make sure that the flap created by the excess tarp was held tight against the side of the pyramid, and to stop the head-end from billowing too much in the wind. (I've got photos and video, will upload when I get time). I spent the night thinking it was a failure since I got almost no sleep with the wind rattling the tarp, but it at least stayed put the whole night. A couple of times I had to reposition the walking poles, the force on them caused them to slowly splay over the night, but it's easy to put them back in place. When I got out in the morning I found I couldn't even stand up in the wind (at least a force 9, more likely force 10) and then I realised just how successful this pitch had actually been. Packing it back down in those winds was hell though. I actually lost a titanium stake, it quite literally blew away.

I kind of LIKE that low star pitch. Looks quite stealthy!

Nice

Awesome.

Thnxs 💯🇺🇸

Liked and subbed. 👍🏼

lengthwise pyramid is my favorite. I can put my stove in one side and sleep on the other side.

very good thank you

Bedankt!

With an accent like that, i believe him!

awesomeness...many thanks

This video should be the new religion and cult of #tarpcamping. Most awesome tarp video ever on youtube. Thank you for saving the earth!

Firstly, thanks for all the incredibly useful information. It really helps. Could you suggest a tarp form that I could use with an 84-inch (or 213cm) bivy?

The music reminds me of King crimson's " I talk to the wind".

very nice video and very good information with the diagrams. might i suggest that you look into the tarps from wilderness innovation. they have a fantastic option for the "tent pole" and are far superior in design and quality than any other tarp i have used.

Nice bro

Hi Papa Hiker, Thanks for awesome videos. Learned a lot. A question: would be possible to do lengthwise pyramid setup as in your video with 3×2.4 m tarp Rab Siltarp2? And if so, what kind of modification to your original design I would have to do? Thanks a lot for helping. Cheers....

Maybe a silly tip that most experienced people already know but since I always carry my poncho with me, which is made of the same material as my tarp I use that as a ground sheet. No extra weight since I already carry it anyway :)

Was that a little Stabyhoun in the background? Loved the video!