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Medio october, at the beginning of the winter 2023 - 2024, two 🌀 consecutive 🌀 storms hit Torredonjimeno, Spain, 🖱️ where I was wildcamping. Those evenings I was hiding in a cafe as long and late as possible but finally I had to leave. I then knew already this would be the end of my Wechsel Venture 2 tent 🖱️, even before I saw it.
The first storm caused "some" new cracks in the flysheet which I repaired with the fantastic repairtape Quechua from Decathlon 🖱️. The winds were so strong that I put all available tentpegs in the ground to keep it in place. I even put in all hexkeys I had plus my two screwdrivers. I put them all in at the same side, were the storms were coming in, at the smallest point of the tent ... That helped then the tent was not blown away. I am sure the tent would have been completely ruined to the ground if the storms had come in at the long side of it.
It's flysheet has little resistance against sun-radiation and was already desintegrating for quite some time. The second storm finished the flysheet completely ...
Luckily it had not rained very hard and/or most water had been blown horizontally over the tent, so most of the inside was still (almost) dry. I needed a soltution immediately and cycled the next day in the rain to the next town at 20kms were I bought a small and cheap tent. I was lucky and managed to "install" it's flysheet on top of my broken tent.
In the meantime I also ordered a new tent, the Stoic LysvikSt II 🖱️ which took about six days to arrive.
Later that winter I ordered these extra large and wide tentpegs. They are about fifty percent longer and six times more wide. Plus they do not have the notch in the head where they break when you really hit them.
I always have a (really) freestanding tent, so freestanding including the vestibules. Which means they do not need any pegs at all. By far most tents are not, although most people say there tent is.
But with theses superpegs I am prepared for more 💪 storms.
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