The other day, I had someone ask me what to do if it rains when camping. One thing you will not enjoy is staying in your tent with your whole family for hours and hours. The way to give yourself more covered space is to put up a rain tarp. This can give you plenty of space to get out of the tent and have dry, usable space for a table, chairs and even a fire. In order to do this, you will need a tarp, some rope and something to tie the tarp to (usually some trees). We always keep an extra tarp in our box of camping gear. Tie a length of rope to each of the corners of the tarp. If the weather is windy, you may also want to tie some rope to the sides as well. Tie the end of one of the corner ropes to something that you can throw up to loop the rope over a branch on the tree, at least 10 feet off the ground. Pull the rope to raise the tarp, wrap the rope around the tree a few times, then tie it off. Repeat the same process with the other three corners of the tarp. Make sure that the tarp is not exactly level, otherwise the rain water will not have anywhere to run off and will pool right in the middle. This should give you a little more room until the weather passes.
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