10 Easy Tarp Shelters for Survival

hello YouTube it is Chris here and in today's episode we're gonna be discussing 10 easy tarp shelter setups that you can build in five minutes or less stick with me welcome back everybody and thank you for sticking with me yep you heard right today we're gonna be discussing my top 10 favorites easy tarp shelter setups and yes you can build every single one of these in 5 minutes or less the very first configuration were to be diving into is the basic and popular a-frame yes it is one of the most popular designs in my opinion because it's one of the most versatile you can use it for doing getting some extra coverage on a tent very common for hammock campers but if you just gonna be fair weather camps a very simple one to build you'll actually no I need one tough - paracord or a guideline for stakes and two trees or trekking poles if you've got them all in all this is one of the most easy tarp shelters to set up now in my opinion the pros about this particular setup is it offers a really excellent protection against rain and snow because of that teepee style a-frame design a lot of the rain inch snows not gonna be able to stick to your tent and fall off a few cons to note is yes there is no floor so having some type of ground cover to keep yourself and your protected from being directly on the ground is gonna be pretty important and also this particular design is prone to sagging when high winds and heavier rains if the guideline is not tight enough one of the cons is you only get wind protection from two sides and not all for all in all my reading is this is an excellent easy difficulty tent that most people can execute very quickly and it's perfect for most three season environment next on the list is the basic lean-to this is one of my favorite ones to set up very quickly because it really doesn't take a whole lot of effort and it's to me it's even simpler in most cases to the a-frame I actually used the lean-to when I did my stealth camping trip for my 12 day challenge with the boss kit using their cheap tarp it's not a square but in this particular situation it can be pretty much any type of rectangular square shape you've got because it's so simple now if you want to be a stealth camper or your completely inexperienced the lean-to is one of the best to gnaw your teeth on and just get familiar with tarp shelter designs now why I like this more is it's very similar with the tools you need from your tents takes your guideline and a couple 10 sticks but you really asically only need two 10 Stakes or you could just make them out in the field if you fill in all bushcraft now the pros of this particular shelter is the fact that it's very fast and easy to set up it literally is one of the fastest designs on this list today however you're only getting wind and rain protection from one side you're pretty much exposed on the other three sides so it's not really awesome it's more like a two to three season shelter set up and also I wouldn't advise it in anything other than fair weather another thing to notice your definite going to want to ground coverage because it has absolutely no floor and you're really not you're only getting light to moderate rain protection and it only is basically good for Sun and wind the third tarp shelter design on this list is one of my favorites because it is considered a moderate difficulty level but I find it to be very very simple it is the sea fly wedge now for fair weather camping I give the sea fly a slight modification and I kind of give it a roof but if I'm gonna be hunkering down for the night or I'm worried about rain I kind of just drop the guylines in the front down to honest land and you're pretty much covered now with this said this is the very first one on the list that has a floor naturally built in so it's awesome for ground covering and if you have something like a 10 by 10 harp you're gonna be pretty squared away now what you'll need for this particular configuration is you're gonna need three guidelines six Stakes two trees or poles now the big pros of this is you're gonna excellent wind protection rain protection and you're gonna have a floor this is why I like it because I don't have to bring any more tarps trash bags or ground covers of any kind now to set up this particular tarp shelter you need to start by laying the tarp on the ground secure the tarp to the ground at the long side and with two to four pegs next you want to make a ridge line anywhere between three to five feet in the air to give yourself a little bit of sitting in Headroom now once you have your ends completely secured down with the pegs you're gonna be folding the majority of your tarp over the ridge line now whether you're going for a roof or to be full triangular-shaped wedge you're definitely don't want to take the two ends and secure it down with your two remaining guy lines at the end either to connect to the trees or to the ground and just be sure to make sure your guylines on those ends are very taut number four on this list is the flat roof lean-to or the ridge line lean-to you can pretty much do either one and this one is kind of easy to moderate given the fact that it's just a slight modification to the basic lean-to now the ridge line lean-to is a smidge more challenging to create but not by much if it offers a lot more sun and rain protection than the basic line off the slope side that you'll be creating over the ridge line when you actually secure it down with the guylines now what you'll need for this is at least three guidelines for stakes to trees or poles or if you don't have that sticks and like I said the difficulty is easy to moderate the pros for the shelter setup is it is a good shelter for rain and Sun good wind protection from one side only and the rain and you have rain runoff from one side it only protects from the wind from one side and the roof can indeed sag if you have heavy enough rain the slope side will help a direct rain away from you now you're either gonna need to use the two poles or tie a guyline rope between the two trees now in the same fashion of the lean-to you're gonna set this up at about a 30-degree angle but you're gonna bring it a little bit closer to your guideline so you have a little bit of overhang my suggestion is anywhere depending on the size of your tarp is between 12 to 24 inches once you've staked down your two-inch to the ground you're gonna lay the remaining portion of your lean-to tarp over the ridge line grab both ends from that adjacent side and guyline them out at roughly a 45 degree angle for solid rain and snow runoff the next one on this list we're about halfway through and this is by far one of my favorite designs so the supplies you're going to need for this particular shelter set up as two guidelines six stakes and at least two trees or poles now this particular design is kind of like a modified lean-to design that offers just a little bit more protection from the sides in the front and also you get a small floor so to set up this particular configuration you want to start out by laying it in a diamond now assuming you have enough symmetrical tie outs to the outside perimeter of your tarp shelter you want to add your tent stakes to the second tie out loops from either side this will leave a triangle-shaped pattern above it that will can be tucked on the inside from there you're going to want pull out the two front corners and PEG them in line with the back from there you want to attach the remaining two corners to the guyline rope this will leave a solid size triangle at the top of your ridge line and finally you're going to want to use the second guyline rope to attach to the end of the remaining triangle to the ground at about a 45 degree angle creating a small cover now the overall pros of this particular setup it is you get good protection from the rain wind and snow from three sides you also get floor protection for yourself and ensuring some of your gear does not get wet the cons are yeah it's it's a slightly complicated design and it will take a couple of tips to get it right it takes longer than other designs and requires two guyliner ropes but overall once you've set this up a couple times the benefits and the what you get out of this particular setup just completely outweighs any of difficulty or time you would take setting this up next on my list is the bivi bag now this is one I hadn't used a lot previously but I have come to enjoy it for three and possibly four season camping now the benefits to this particular design are you only need one tree which is nice because sometimes you might be an area where there's just a random tree out in the clearing and that's where you got to set up because inclement weather is coming in and this is where this particular shelter design shines so you're gonna need at least one guideline four to five stakes one trigger pole and overall this is a pretty simple shelter to set up now the bivi bag design offers extremely awesome protection but something you'll have to know because it is a bivy setup you're not gonna have a lot of room but if you pick an appropriate sized heart for this design if you're gonna go out in some inclement weather you'll still have plenty of room for yourself in your gear so just like the Adirondack you're actually going to want to start out in a diamond shaped pattern first you want to take the guideline and tie that around your tree at about four or five feet in the air and then tie the other end to that top corner now following your tarp all the way to the back end you're gonna want to grab your tent stake and Hammer that bad boy down and lock that thing into place and you're gonna should see kind of a slight soft ramp now while you're setting up your tent try to do a wind check and make sure that your opening is facing the opposite direction of the wind currently but the use when as others particular design is because you only need one tree if you to rotate this and modify it at any given time it's pretty easy to do so now the particular pros of the bivi bag setup is it offers excellent wind deflection it's a great for season design and offers excellent protection from snow and rain the biggest Pro in my opinion is the fact you only need one tree or pole the next configuration on this list is the Holden tarp tent this is one of my absolute favorites because it does have a pole that kind of blocks your door in the center but it gives you a ton of space in trade off now this one is particularly easy to set up this will work best with a square setup but it can't work with this slightly rectangular design the easy way to set this particular system up is you only need four 10 Stakes a single guy line and a trekking pole or a stick now to set this up you want to lay it flat on the ground and a square pattern from there you're gonna want to take two of your chain stakes and go ahead and make them nice and tight in the back and stake those bad boys down now from there the easiest configuration I found as I like to find a particular stick that is about chest height to myself which is about 4 to 5 feet high and another good way to kind of protect your tarp from getting kind of jacked up while you're setting this up is I usually grab the cover bag from my toothpick sugar tarp and put it over the stick or the trekking pole I head to the opposite end from where I staked it down find the center through a guyline pole go up I move back maybe three to four inches grab a guyline wrap it around the tarp at the top of my tarp to create a nice secure anchor point and then I go straight down at a 45 degree angle and anchor my guyline down with eight and other now from there all you have to do is secure the two remaining front corners on either side and you're gonna have a awesome five sided protection for your staking but you're gonna have a ton of room if you're worried about heavy rains in wind and you want to keep the noise and the wind from coming in taking down the middle will offer a little bit more wind and rain protection now keep in mind this is an excellent three season design if you have a reflective tent it could be used in low snow scenarios but in drastically cold environments you're definitely gonna want to be fully covered find the pros in my opinion are it's very spacious very easy to set up very quick to set up and you've got a ton of room you have protection from three sides it's excellent for snow and rain also offers a lot of wind protection the one con in my opinion is it doesn't have a natural door and you don't have a floor but if you have a ground cover that is mitigated pretty quickly the next design is one of my favorite for season designs this is one of the first ones that I highly recommend that is naturally designed for four seasons this is the floating tent this thing is amazing it's a modification to the a-frame tent now this is the most easy to setup when you have a tarp with doors but you can also modify it with a square tarp very easily so just like you would set up a a frame tent you find your middle point slap it over your ridgeline stake down the four sides we have your basic layout for the a-frame tent now if you have doors you're gonna have some overhang grab those bad boys slap them horizontally across each other if you have appropriately made tarp shelter the doors showed overlap offering you excellent wind and noise and rain protection and giving you a completely encompassing system now if you don't have a tarp that has doors and you're just using a square tarp find the tie oats that are directly next to the corner on those same ends what you'll normally tie out you're gonna have a little bit of extra on each corner as you're not sticking down the actual corners from your square tarp and from there you kind of just take the same system fold them over and you should have some doors recommended size for this is either a 12 by 12 or a 10 by 10 because if you don't have doors you want to make sure you have enough overhang hanging over the system to give you an adequate protection from a forces and setup now the pros from this is you're gonna have excellent rain and wind protection you're gonna have covering on four sides is gonna be able to mitigate and regulate your body temperature very easily typically with mine I have my super fly which has doors built-in and I just bring eight ten six with me and I can get this set up in about three to five minutes the next configuration on this list is the diamond fly this is one of the simplest wedge-shaped designs that require one dredge line and two tin poles now this one is not going to be the most effective against wind and rain but it's a very very quick shelter to set up so from here all you need is a ridgeline depending on the size of your tarp you want to go three to five feet in the air now if you're a hammock camper this is pretty much perfect for fair weather camping because you're going to get a lot of act and a light kind of showing through you can kind of see your surroundings very good but if you get some light to moderate rain you should have some decent protection but for this focusing on the tarp configuration this is more of a fair-weather three-season setup it's not great in cold weather you get you only get light to moderate rain protection and you really allistic we only get solid Sun and wind protection from one side because of the diamond shaped pattern they're kind of exposed on all sides this is designed for people who are trying to set up a quick shelter want something that has a really good airflow and are just looking for a little bit of a sun protection overall now last but not least on our list is the tarp tent this is one of my favorite designs of all time because it offers excellent protection I've actually created my own personal mod for this to make it a four-season champ for this one you're gonna want a square tarp with a ton of tied outs this is gonna be the easiest way to get this thing rockin and ready to go you're gonna need at least eight tent stakes one guy line trekking pole or a stick pretty easy to set up now so the easiest way I find to set up this particular tarp shelter is to lay it flat on the ground in a square configuration now from here if assuming you have the appropriate tights you move to the center of your tarp in the very very back and stake it down the middle then from there you want to find the to tie outs next to it that are 3/4 of the way the link to the corners on the backend and stake those down now once we have those three pegs staked out we want to move to the front and find our Center from there we want to move about 25% of the way in even in parallel to the first tie up now from there we're gonna grab our stick or our trekking pole and pop that bad boy underneath our tarp shelter we're gonna want to move a little bit forward find the tie out grab our one guideline and start tying that out and secure it at about a 45 degree angle and that will actually create our roof now from here we're going to want to find each corner of from the front of the shelter we want to go next to that ago about 25% of the way down and find that very next tie up and stick those down it at roughly a 45 degree angle now from here because we have the back staked out the front and now the sides we have four points of security to keep our tent pole or our stick completely secure the last thing you actually do is find the middle on either side of your tarp shut up stake that thing out and you're pretty much done for three season camping now the mod that I have decided to create for a four season setup as I do not stake down those two middles I actually grabbed the access because I'm gonna have a lot of excess tarp left over I'm gonna tuck those bad boys under giving me a little bit more cleanliness and a protection and a little bit of floor ground coverage and it from here this where things get a little bit interesting now we move back to the front and we tuck the flap from the front inside underneath our tent to kind of close things down and give us a little bit more space to put gear down on the ground now at this point we are gonna want to find the to tie offs that are hanging you can either grab a small tuft of cordage or carabiners if you have big enough ones clamp those things together behind your tent stake or tie those down a simple square knot will do and it'll drastically block the wind or snow that could be coming into your tarp now keep in mind this is not a hundred percent perfect but if you use something like a reflective tarp you're going to be baking inside there even in cold temperatures in 65 degree weather and I felt like I was gonna be roasted alive in my reflective tarp now on all these were my top 10 easy tarp shelter setups that you can build in five minutes or less now there was a lot of tarp shelter configurations that we did not cover and there are some easy ones out there that are a lot of fun to do but if you enjoy this episode and want to see more like it definitely this video a big thumbs up and make sure we get to least 3,000 likes and that's gonna let us know that your direct voting these are the types of videos that you want to keep seeing on our channel now in regards to my twenty-dollar seven-day dollar-store survival challenge we did get the 5000 likes on that video which is super awesome and we're actually leaving tomorrow to start filming that but with that said I hope you guys have an absolute wonderful day and we'll see you in the next one [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 17min 32sec (1052 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 06 2019