>>2736498Well here's the event that inspired me: Was out with a small group fair weather trekking, 50 miles into the back country, no tents, no real shelters. A few of us had bivy sacks for emergency rain shelter, one guy had a big tarp that could shelter several people. Well, one night it started raining. Not hard. Tarp guy wakes up, and starts fussing with his tarp trying to set it up in the pitch black. Trying to set up a ridge line, adjust all his guy lines, after ten minutes he just gives up and sleeps under the tarp flat on the ground. It wasn't raining hard, so I just cozied up to a tall tree and went to sleep, woke up dry. But it got me thinking if there was an extremely simple tarp arrangement that could be set up in 30 seconds or less with as few components as possible. Something you could easily set up in the pitch black in the rain. Proper tarp tents are cool. But they're very component heavy. Adjustable trekking pole... At least 7 stakes... Multiple guy lines... I've practiced setting them up, and I always thought it was a hassle. My triangle design uses one tie point and three stakes and that's it. And if made as a siltarp it would be super light.
