[Philmont] Market for tent stakes?

you may be able to get tent stakes from crews in the home bound tent area
but half the alum ones will be bent and they wont part with the titanium
ones. TOT trading post sells cheep steel pegs for 25 cents each but they
will be worthless after 12 days on the trail. I got alum tent pegs off ebay
(they were new and in ozark trail boxes - wall mart overflow.) they were
$40 for 100 as I recall. this was close to the cost at wall mart where you
can get a box of 6 pegs for $3.00

 Final result was 10% of our pets were lost on trail during first 3- 4 days,
30% lost on trail final morning (amazing how those things just never made
it into the tent bag at 3:30 am in the dark on the last day, before we
hiked 10 miles down tooth ridge to base camp) , at base camp about 30 of the
remaining 60 or 70 pegs were bent so bad that they were worthless, about 20
pegs the boys kept for use with their tents at home and I took about 20 or
30 home to add to troop gear.

Phil tents need 20 pegs. 10 for the tent and 10 more for the rain fly. I
recommend using all 20 peg for the tent. The better you pitch and secure
that tent, the better it will hold up to midnight rain and wind storms.
sloppy loose tent walls and rain flys will result in your least experienced
boy getting his sleeping bag wet (bad bad bad problem if it gets cold or
doesn't stop raining.) you will also need 10 to 15 extra pegs for the
dinning fly. therefore 12 peg for each crew member is probably the correct
number.

fuel is easier to get in the homebound area. first check out the base camp
advisers lounge. white gas is cheep to buy but also easy to get from
incoming crews, if you don't find any in the lounge, just walk through the
homebound tent area and ask. Powermax may be plentiful also. when we
arrived on 626 there were about 5 full large powermax canisters in the
advisers lounge at base camp, when we got back on july 7 to base camp there
were about 20 large full powermax bottles, free for the taking as no one can
figure out a good way to get them home. also there was a 3/4 full gallon of
white gas there.

kirk maes

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Matt & Jean Rogers <
mjjmrogers@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I would suggest you bring your own stakes, I sued the MSR titanium ones and
> never had a problem. Some of the alum stakes did bend.
>
> In the booklet it says to bring 10 extra tents stakes per person, well I
> would only bring 10 total extra (most will be used for the dining fly)
>
> Jean
>

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