[at-l] Driving Tent Stakes

[Jack.Bulkley@sas.com (Jack Bulkley)]

Most of my backpacking experience is fairly far behind me. The last ten years have been mostly car camping with young kids. Now we are hitting the trails more and I am doing a little backpacking and planning more. One item I realized was really useful when car camping was a small sledge hammer. That sucker will drive tent stakes into rocky ground. If the stakes were strong enough it could probably drive them into solid rock. Well I may not know a lot but I know enough not to pack and carry a sledge hammer. From scouting in the 70's I remember carrying a hand axe which we also used to drive tent stakes. I can also remember using a rock to hammer in stakes. 

So my question is how are hikers, especially weight conscious ones, now driving in their stakes?

Jack Bulkley
Jack.Bulkley@sas.com
Apex, NC