High Sierra Topix

Any personal preferences when it comes to stakes? Steel, aluminum or carbon? Do you
use tent stakes of pegs? Any one use rocks as anchors in place of stakes?

Msr ground hogs, myog ti shepherd hooks. I reinforce with rocks all the time.

This year I am going to do a mix. I need 10 stakes for a Hexamid Solo Plus so I will use 4 MSR Groundhogs for the primary anchors and then 6 Zpacks Vargo Titanium stakes for the rest of them and then this will cut the weight.

Hopefully I will not leave the whole pack after the first night this time!

I use Easton stakes for the main points and MSR mini groundhogs for the balance of the stakes for my BA Fly Creek 2.

Maverick

As I've said before I usually carry fewer stakes than optimal and have been known to use 100% rocks and tree branches when lacking soil. I kind of like the v shaped stakes that come with the Big Agnes tents. The hollow round pegs I got with one tent tend to break at inopportune times.

Mike

I don't know about you guys, but I don't need to buy expensive stakes. There are plenty laying around in the backcountry camps, both close in and way out. I'm amazed how many I find, and some darn nice ones. Last Sierra trip, a couple of nice needle like with a x cross section. Those are sweet. Just don't drive them into a tree root.

I like the stakes that come with Big Agnes tents, and I use mine. They're light and have been grippy and durable. I also use rocks and tie-offs to landscape features with my guy lines.

Ikan Mas wrote:I don't know about you guys, but I don't need to buy expensive stakes. There are plenty laying around in the backcountry camps, both close in and way out. I'm amazed how many I find, and some darn nice ones.

Guilty.
I am sorry to say I have accidentally left a stake here and there in my travels. I always wonder how I could have been so stupid. In 3 years, I was 3 stakes short on my Big Agnes tent, so I bought a set of MSR groundhogs to replace them, and have been happy with them.
My greatest losses so far were a pair of prescription sunglasses I lost while fishing on Tyndall Creek south of the ranger station (somewhere), and a Buck knife that I must have left on the SE corner of Lower Indian Lake, after cleaning a fish, and walking back to Rae lake. Enjoy. I have found everything from fishing poles, knives, sunglasses, water bottles, etc; and lots of trash! I try to leave anything nice sitting on a rock on a trail,just in case......but, I am not sure why.
Trash, I try to carry out. Then again, if I found a chest of gold, I would probably carry that out too, and do my part to help keep the wilderness clean!