11d (edited) • AFTER-ACTION REPORTS
Week 6 - Tarp Configuration - Crawl Part 1
I started this subsection of the weekly challenge last Sunday but arrived at the selected site to find that none of my cordage was pre-staged, it was in fact still wrapped in the paper directly from Wally World. Mission abandoned - momentarily. I processed the 50-foot bundle into a rapid ridgeline and four 6-foot sections. I made the opportunity to get back out to the same spot and set up a Helicon Tex poncho on a rapid ridgeline and used the SFO Pathfinder Ponco Poles. I use a simple running bow line knot on one anchor, held with a tent peg, a truckers hitch with an extra turn on the tensioning end. One corner of the poncho is held to the Prussic Knot with tent peg and one with a stick. The back corners were held with a hank of paracord tied with two-half hitch around the poncho pole and a marlin-spike hitch to the more robust tent stakes. The back of the poncho would need to be buried in the snow and pine boughs would have to be collected for insulation. The temperature was 40 degrees and was calm. Although not working against the clock, it took approximately 10 minutes. This was an anchored lean-to as contrasted with an A-frame shelter.
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Week 6 - Tarp Configuration - Crawl Part 1
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