01-07-2017, 03:50 PM
Last year during the Fish Lake tournament, winds got up in the low 20s and popped one of the buckles on the Cabelas xl2000 I have. It popped up the side of my tent, scattered fish and gear and when I ran out to fix the strap I found it had bent the metal buckle on the strap so I had to stand on the tent in the wind and repair it with one of those little knock off leathermans Cabelas sells. All the original ice anchors that came with the tent are now bent from the wind ripping the tent up.
The buckles on those straps are cheap and I am going to replace them, but the other thing is that I had made two mistakes: faced the side of my tent directly into the wind, and didn't have stakes to put in the internal anchors. Now I have a set of four of the big beefy Eskimo anchors that go on the outside anchors and if there's wind, the old anchors go inside. All that aside, you should always face a hub shelter's corner into the wind. The corners without the doors are designed to cut the wind, and that way you have two anchors taking the force of the wind.
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The buckles on those straps are cheap and I am going to replace them, but the other thing is that I had made two mistakes: faced the side of my tent directly into the wind, and didn't have stakes to put in the internal anchors. Now I have a set of four of the big beefy Eskimo anchors that go on the outside anchors and if there's wind, the old anchors go inside. All that aside, you should always face a hub shelter's corner into the wind. The corners without the doors are designed to cut the wind, and that way you have two anchors taking the force of the wind.
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