Tent pegs, I did not know that folks even used them any more, with the popularity of the dome tent. Brings to mind a story, I am old and there are a lot of stories. .. One of the troopers I worked with and I had gone off on a Caribou hunt in the wilds of Alaska, we flew into a remote lake and were dropped off, with the promise from the pilot that he would return to pick us up in five days. We set our tents up on a shelf above the lake, and in that country the only trees are right adjacent to water, this was on open tundra.
We didn't use tent pegs, but as a precaution we tied everything to the bushes that are everywhere on the tundra. It was early in the fall, with balmy daytime temperatures in the 40-50 deg. range. Not a cloud in the sky, and hardly a breath of air moving. Our first morning out we sallied forth to look for the wily Caribou.
About three hours walk from camp, the wind started to blow, then the sky darkened and within 20 minutes the temperature had dropped into the high 20s, the wind increased to about 30 knots, and it was snowing sideways. We made it back to camp, it was a good thing that we tied our tents down, because they were bobbing around in the wind like kites.
We moved our camp down by the lake into what trees there were, it stormed on and off the whole time we were there, but what the heck..that was Alaska, and we still had a great time, our five days turned into 10, because the plane could not get back in to where we were.
The only tense moment was one evening just before dark when a big Barren Ground Grizzly, wandered through ..
Tent pegs, oh yes a stick with a relatively pointy part on one end.
