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Took me 3 tries to figure out my tent stakes were wrong for the ground here
I spent a whole weekend last spring trying to set up my tent at a site near Durango and the wind kept ripping the stakes out. I kept thinking I wasn't hammering them in deep enough or the ground was too hard. Turns out I was using those cheap plastic stakes that came with the tent instead of something better for rocky soil. After the second night of waking up with dirt in my sleep, I finally asked a guy at the gear shop what I was doing wrong. He handed me a set of MSR Groundhogs and said try these. Put them in on the third attempt and it held through a 40 mph gust no problem. Has anyone else wasted hours on the wrong stakes for their local terrain? I felt like a fool but at least I learned. I don't think I'll ever use the free ones again.
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