Getting Started With Tarps

Tarp, instead of a tent is discussed over at last week's installment of The First 40 Miles.

Living in the Southeast I've never given tarps so much as a moment's consideration, largely due to the plethora of bugs.  A full-floored, screened-in tent or hammock is the only way to sleep.  However... sometimes it's nice to have a tarp up in rainy weather.  Sometimes, it'd be nice to have a nearly instant rain fly up before pitching the main tent.  Sometimes a windbreak is called for.  Having listened to this episode I can now imagine all kinds of uses, and even learned a trivial way to get *something* up that doesn't require a half-hour's sorting out of lines and gear.  Interesting stuff.