Lots of nice input, thanks.
Man Without Shadow, do you have experience with these ropes? So far everyone who actually tried the stuff shows disappointment…
I’d rather have something inexpensive and cheap-looking. For 2 reasons.
A large part of what I like in the festival is not having to care. The less stuff I take, the less it’s worth the more free I am to enjoy myself.
The other reason is crime.
On average there are roughly 500 000 attendees to the festival (though it swings a lot). With so many people sleeping in tents, often drunk or having fun at concerts away from their places - there are thieves as well. Being (and looking) cheap is a good strategy…and a very common one, people just don’t take much stuff there. It’s easy too stand out as a good target. LED ropes, wires and pegs - may be good in general but are not a good idea for my use case.
Throwies are cool, I may try them. 90 cents for 10 LEDs (reusable). $1.5 for 10 cells. Some tape. Before starting the thread I considered spending $20 on a 3mm rope that would likely not work.
Cheap, cheap-looking, likely to work well. I’m slightly worried that it’s cheap looking from up close but maybe not so much from a distance…but I like it nevertheless.
Too late for this year but may try it later.
I really like the idea of using reflective tape stripes. I have such tape so I may try it this year. Even before the festival.
Glowing pegs, fasteners, guy line bands…could be interesting as well, but I’ll leave them for later.
Advice a steel rope if you don’t mind a dozen of tripped over, drunk fellas sight in the morning around your tent. Long titanium pegs could be useful as well.
Interesting take.
But I do mind. I don’t want any drunk fella tripping over my tent just because they didn’t think about taking some light before they went on a binge…
And for some weird reason - most tend to think about drinking rather than about lights.
Hang a chem light. I bought a couple 50-packs of the small ones to use night fishing (they go in bobbers). They’re cheap enough that when the kids get rowdy I send them in the basement to turn off the lights and play “Star Wars” and throw them at each other.
Yeah, that sticks could work as well.
Though I’m not very fond of replacing them every day. I’ll try othe options first but I’ll keep this one in my head as well.
Thank you!
Same experience with the GITD paracord - wasn’t very bright, I bought it thinking it’d make for good guy lines for a tent also, but never bothered using it.
I have a tent with reflective threads in the lines and that works well with only a small amount of light (I guess at a festival there will be some ambient light around to make them show up…)
Other idea would be to leave a light inside the tent, so the tent itself is a little illuminated. That’s my usual trick when camping, so I can find the tent in the dark and have a reasonable idea of where the guy lines should be
Agro, did you finally pick any of glowing ropes?
Don’t forget to make some pics. I would gladly take advantage of your findings as I’m planing a scouting bivouac with my toddlers…
Thanks MascaratumB.
I’m leaving for Pol’and’Rock the day after tomorrow so it’s unlikely to arrive by then. Just like the relfective rope that is on the way. So…for this year I can only try glow tape strips. For the next one - I have a lot of time to collect and test various ideas.
GITD tape isn’t super expensive. Why not apply a few pieces taped over each of the guy lines. Like about 4 or 5 “tags”? Or if you camp frequently, maybe get some cheap GITD markers and use a little duct tape to secure them in place spread across each guy line?
I use the MLH micro tensioners. I’ve used Atwood cord and it is a great product, but the only experience I have with the GITD version is seeing it use by others once or twice and it seems to hold a glow reasonably well.
I have no idea about availability in Poland however.
Thanks, you seem to be the first person recommending a glow rope while having some experience with one.
The cost is quite high so it will be at the end of my list of the things to try - but I will put it there.
if you don’t mind a dozen of tripped over, drunk fellas sight in the morning around your tent. Long titanium pegs could be useful as well.
