Learning to tune into the natural environment and see clues which can get you navigate is a wonderful, and vast, skillset. A skillset which will open your senses, and connect you with the land you’re travelling through. Don’t get me wrong, I advocate the use of a map and compass as you would expect, and we run a suite of navigation courses to develop those techniques.
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I’ve written a few articles now on the knots I use when setting up a tarp for camping, but in the video below I combine the three knots I use most often to demonstrate from start to finish how I go about pitching my camp.
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The third and final knot in the series I use regularly to pitch my tarp when camping. In the last article we looked at anchoring one end of the ridgeline with the Evenk Hitch; this article with cover the knot at the other end- The Taut Tarp Hitch. These two hitches used alongside the slippery guyline hitch are all you need to secure a tight and evenly pitched tarp.
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