[at-l] Driving Tent Stakes

[Ferguson@CWF.org (Ferguson, J. Mark)]

Almost all tent sites along the AT come equipt with stake drivers.  They are
small, round, and always in an earth tone.  Dayhikers call them rocks.

Skippie...

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bulkley [mailto:Jack.Bulkley@sas.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 8:56 AM
To: at-l@backcountry.net
Subject: [at-l] Driving Tent Stakes


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

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