How to Stake Down a Tent

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is John Stewart, and this is how to stake out a tent, once you've set it up. There's many different shapes and sizes of stakes, and they all come, play key roles when setting up tents in different areas. First one I'm going to talk about, is just normal old camping out in the woods. Most of the time, you've going to have a moist ground. This is when you can take and use a real light-weight stake, a metal one, a real light-weight plastic. Something that's just going to get in the ground and hold your tent down in case there's strong winds or rain, once you have your rain flowing. If you're out in a sandy area, or a snowy area, they have what's called a snow stake, or a sand stake. What these are, are these are pouches that you fill up with snow or sand and then you just pull them tight and clip them onto the tent, to where it holds and it weighs down your tent. Other things that work in snow and sand are bigger stakes, most of the time, they come in a t-shaped, to where they go in and they've got a big blade that keeps them from pulling against the tent. These work really well, once you get into the like twelve to fourteen inch size stakes. So that's some of the many different types of stakes that you can use. You can easily repair your stakes by duct taping them, or you can go in and just find a hard wood, sharpen one end of it and use that as a stake, that's an easier replacement. When you do stake out your tent, you want to put them in at a forty-five degree angle into the ground and don't beat them all the way into the ground, it's a pain in the butt to then get them out. And this is how to stake out your tent when setting up your tent."