werdigo49
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I have a 8x10 silicone tarp. It has one seam in the middle of the 10' side (so the seam is 8' long); along that seam are three tie tapes, at 2', 4', and 6'. (I presume they're on the INSIDE of the tarp... could be wrong about that!)
The few times I've used it I've been pitching it with the seam above my sleeping bag and the head end of the mosquito net tied to the tape that's 2' in. But I'm 6' tall, so (stretched out, centered along the 8' dimension of the tarp) I'm at most 1' in from the tarp edges (not accounting for the slope, from head to foot, of the tarp). It seemed logical to run the seam from head to foot and the tapes down the center line.
If I pitched it the other way, though, with the seam and its tie tapes running from left to right basically across where my waist would be as I sleep, I could move my head and feet in so each would be about 2' from the head-and-foot tarp edges. (The 10' dimension would be head-to-foot and the 8' side-to-side.) I'll have to rig something from which to hang the mosquito net because there aren't any tapes at (what would be) my head, this way.
Can anyone understand what I'm trying to describe here, and offer any advice? This is a Campmor green silicone tarp.
The few times I've used it I've been pitching it with the seam above my sleeping bag and the head end of the mosquito net tied to the tape that's 2' in. But I'm 6' tall, so (stretched out, centered along the 8' dimension of the tarp) I'm at most 1' in from the tarp edges (not accounting for the slope, from head to foot, of the tarp). It seemed logical to run the seam from head to foot and the tapes down the center line.
If I pitched it the other way, though, with the seam and its tie tapes running from left to right basically across where my waist would be as I sleep, I could move my head and feet in so each would be about 2' from the head-and-foot tarp edges. (The 10' dimension would be head-to-foot and the 8' side-to-side.) I'll have to rig something from which to hang the mosquito net because there aren't any tapes at (what would be) my head, this way.
Can anyone understand what I'm trying to describe here, and offer any advice? This is a Campmor green silicone tarp.