[at-l] How important was freestanding for you?

[trailr at aol.com]

I never needed the free standing option on my thru. I brought extra staking-guy line, and when I set up on a platform I ran the lines over the edge and tied it off or staked it. I never set my tent up in a shelter, it's rude. It pisses people off... LOL! And there was only 1 time there was room... Hotdog AT03
------Original Message------
From: Amy Forinash
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Subject: [at-l] How important was freestanding for you?
Sent: Aug 25, 2009 7:47 PM

I'm pondering buying a smaller shelter than my Tarptent Squall 2 for  
my thruhike.  In people's journals I keep reading about them setting  
up tents in shelters for protection from bugs, or setting up on a  
platform where they couldn't use stakes.

On your hikes, how often have you needed / used the freestanding  
feature of your tent if you had one?  The only time I haven't been  
able to use stakes on my section hikes, I used rocks to secure mine  
(non-freestanding) tent.  But then again I've never been at a shelter  
where there was plenty of room for a tent AND the bugs were bad AND I  
had a reason to not want to set up on the ground (like mud).

-amy
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