yeah she's beaut. just sitting here admiring the superior shelter. a tarp is your shelter
especially when you're a hammock person you rely on your tarp out there in the woods for camping
overnight to keep you dry keep the wind off of you keep pine needles from falling into your hammock
keep spiders off of you for some privacy now I've been using this tarp for over a year now and I've
been using their hammocks a lot Minnesota based company right now I sort of have it
pitch low uh it's kind of simulating that I was in a storm and I've had this thing hanging out
here for about three weeks because we've had cold we've had rain we've had sleep we've had wet snow
and it is withstood all of it and the superior gear was out here in a storm last night today is
April 20th 2023. last night April 19 2023 we had a huge storm with hail and hard rain and it came
out here this morning and checked out everything and man it's dry as a bone under here the hail
didn't seem to bother it the stakes were pulled up of course I do have some uh some logs from my
wood pile sitting on there because our ground is thawed out so now it's a little bit soggy
big high winds for two days and this tarp has been holding up great [Music]
the superior shelter one of the greatest things about it if you're one of those people who's kind
of new to Hammocks and I get this from people all the time they don't know how to tie knots there's
just no knots needed and I think that's a really great thing for people because it's just going to
make their tarp pitching life a little bit easier because tarping is its own art and when you get
into hammocks eventually you're going to have to deal with the tarp take heat on that one so
here's the aluminum Ridgeline adjuster right here so what you have is your your cord going through
and that goes right around the tree with a little mini [ __ ] right there
Superior gear provides flip it over that's how it's wound through to release it
you just lift that top Edge slide it back when I want to tighten it grab the loose end
and pull that right up and it locks in quite firmly I have never had that thing slip ever
keeps you from having to tie knots all these just put your stake in
right put your Loop
at the end of your guideline right there which is pre-tied around your stake pull rank
done this tarp does come with its own stakes and they even say if you can see that on there
it says Superior your gear on it so it's really nice when a tarp comes with steaks
I think that's an added benefit with the steaks there's even a cool little
pouch on the bag and you can put your steak separate from your tarp
small thing kind of Handy that and the little hand pull on the end so when you pull everything
out and the thing I like about this stuff sack is you don't have to cram so hard like it it fits the
tarp real nice even when I have it in my snake skins now this is sill poly which is a little
lighter a little Slicker it absorbs less water but you're roughly looking at about 28 ounces
12 feet from tip to tip so 12 foot Ridgeline but the thing about this tarp when I first got it that
I was a little suspect you know I don't like new things I don't want to like new things even though
I have an open mind is the little Clips on the corner all right the way you clip on the lines
and it makes it really easy because it's one less knot to do it's one less looping around through
where you've tied a bite and you want to push it through you just clip everything and I just was
certain they were going to break at some point in high winds and I have not had one failure I've
used these uh last year I was on a seven day trip in The Boundary Waters at a lot of high
winds where the tarp is right in it broadside never failed never failed out here in my tasks
they've never come loose they've never slipped the Ridgeline guy lines have never slipped so
I think that speaks for itself we don't like slippage you don't want your tarp slipping down
indeed these are real easy to clip off
just kind of squeeze your sides and they clip off like that then when you want to connect these
that's the part on the tarp here's the little clip and they just uh they just snap
and that's the part I didn't think I was going to trust but they have never come loose
all right so this setup is kind of what I would call my kind of high wind set up
I've got my doors pretty much all the way closed I could have gotten them closed at a repitched but
yet you do have two Loops right here that you could you could put a [ __ ] in there a little
small [ __ ] pitch them all the way closed if you want they're tied down down here 's what those
clips look like and you just simply to Let it Loose you just kind of put your thumb right there
and loosen it and to tighten it and just pull it we have one single pull out on the side
which I find is enough that is good for me I'd rather have one than two and I really like having
the clip here kind of nice that there's a on your ties down here there is a middle tie at the bottom
and I have that hooked up right now just because it was really windy and uh
it opens up like if you're sitting in the hammock
I'll show you that it just pulls your tarp out a little bit a little bit more so if you
were cooking and doing some stuff from your hammock rather than your tart being in here
you get a little bit more protection from the rain all right so that's that middle tie out
right there and I'm here inside the tarp sitting at the edge of my hammock there's my feet right
there and I've got what I would consider a great distance down here for cooking or having my pack
I have the entrance doors like this one pulled in and I have the other out just because I knew I was
going to be coming in and out a good bit so that would basically be my entrance right there I would
come in this way if I was one of those guys that really wanted to pitch down tight like that now
I close that door off and like I say that's to me that's not a very big gap if you did want to close
that up you would just need to pitch your tarp a little closer angle and you have full coverage
it does come with eight sets of these lines right here it's glow line really
strong line never snapped glow meaning when your flashlight hits it at night that really lights up
it also comes with four of these shock cord sort of Bungee clips
and these are really good for pinning your doors back I tend to use Clips but you can
hook the two doors back I'll show you that in a second and you can even use those to
put your door down here and then you've got a little bit more give if you want to pull
your door open to step in all right I just put one of the bungee ones in there I just
and because it has a clip on the other end I just did them
put a little Loop there and tied it to the stake but then you can pull your door back
that makes this a lot easier just to pull that door back you could pull it out and step over
there's the other side of the tarp I just kind of got that one tied off on a tree
not even not even straight but it pulls it out and really opens up that room inside
I did seam seal this tarp inside and out and if you look at my seam ceiling video
this is the tarp I did um it doesn't say on his site whether you need to or not
but judging by the type of Ridgeline sewing it is I would say it's never a bad idea to
seam seal your tarp that's just one place you don't want to have a leak
and now we're looking at those doors pulled back with the two bungee Clips hooked on there
and you can see my doors are just pinned back there which a lot of people like that feature
that way you can have your tarp opened up
there is a lot of room in this tarp especially with the sides pulled out
and having those doors pulled back it was really nice that's an easy way to do it
all right this is one of the setups I like to call this Sky pitch and I just have the
corner of my tarp which is usually pinned right there just pull back over the top
got your guy line just coming over the top doesn't need to be real tight or anything and I have it
right here on its stake you ask why do I not have it on this steak because if it starts to
rain or something I need to repitch mistakes right there I just jump up pull it go right around and
stake that out and I'm laying here in my hammock and I've got a nice view of the sky and even if
it started to sprinkle I'm a little bit covered here you know I don't think it would really uh
keep me driving hippie hey man you want to come in come on come on oh come on you got it come on
there you go hey putty hi there hello bean bomb beanie weenie Superior gear tarp and the reason
I'm showing it to you is it has worked for me it hasn't let me down those Corner Clips have
not broken it hasn't come loose and I really like that so you know if you're shopping for
tarps and you're looking for a shelter the superior shelter pass the old sugar test
I don't know if that means much but it's kept me high and dry and I trust it so there you go
all right here's your color choices for your shelter
they have camo charcoal what mine is white and sky and then for your ropes right there
good stuff whoa buddy all secure in sector seven [Music]
thank you [Music]
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