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do people think it is ok to cut a corner and spend the whole night tripping over my guy ropes?

I am afraid that my language got just a bit blue by the fith time of it happening and I am sorry that the little girl went flying over a rope and hurt herself but hey, don't cut accross my pitch!

I don't see why I should worry about my guy ropes being visable when I am well within my tent pitching boundry, the lines are clearly marked out on the grass and all tents have guy ropes after all surely if you camp you know this?!

OK moan over, it's a good job I enjoyed the weekend away really!  

Your not the only one banger, I felt as though I was constantly hearing the twang of guy ropes, at all hours.  My only gripe was that in the morning there wasn't a pile of injured bodies, they all seemed to escape injury.  NEXT TIME YA BUNCH O BAMS HE HE HE  

Fuzzy

it is simple... buy some cheap metal wire (copper works best - must be uncoated) and wind it around your guy ropes; up one and down another. Then park your car close enough to run your jump leads from the battery to the bottom of each guy rope.

You get woken up by the zap, scream and smell of burning hair... but only once.

It`s not okay to cut across pitches. You`re absolutely right. It can damage a tent to have the force of an adult body landing on a guyline plus, of course, it`s annoying.

If the adults in a party won`t remember to keep off pitches there`s not much hope for their kids learning, is there? If you`ve got one family that clearly hasn`t got a clue about campsite etiquitte then a friendly word about potential damage to tents won`t go amiss...likelyhood is that they just haven`t thought about it if newbies. You can always point out that kids can hurt themselves as well.

 I always run through the campsite rules with my kids before I let them off the leash in a new campsite...last time I went camping, we had a novice family with us and I lined their kids up too and got the whole mob to repeat the rules back at me. I`ve got no problem yelling at my kids if they get too near someone elses` tent, and I`ll similarly yell at anyone elses kids that get too near mine.

But if all else fails, run a second guyline out at a wider angle and clothespeg a towel to it just to mark the corner.. It`s not worth your tent getting damaged just to sit and do nothing.

Quote: Originally posted by soggy knees on 19/6/2006

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I know what you mean!  It is annoying ( but its unfortunate that my own brood was tripping over mine)

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Last time we went camping a young girl walked her dog along side our tent, and I mean walked along side it, she stooped and followed the dog under all the lines down one side!

fin

Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 19/6/2006

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 I always run through the campsite rules with my kids before I let them off the leash in a new campsite...last time I went camping, we had a novice family with us and I lined their kids up too and got the whole mob to repeat the rules back at me..

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*Listen up you 'orrible little bleeders*

*You have entered MY camp...you are MY property*

*Is that clear?*................................YESSIR !!

*You are to follow MY rules...You are no longer persons in your own right *

*Is that clear?*.........................YESSIR !!

*You may have broken your mothers hearts but you won't break mine you 'orrible little people*

*Is that clear?*...........YESSIR !!

*Right...fall out...you are now Marines*

*Is that clear?*........YESSIR !!

Another good, non-lethal, solution

http://www.addictedtopaintball.com/landmines_refillable/

... in fact it would be kind of fun to put up a few signes around your pitch with "beware landmines" and see the reaction...

Although it minght not trouble my kids as landmine placing is one of their annual sports day events

I do a bit of wild camping on occasion.  One trip after 3 days came off the fells and booked into a nice site and put up my small one man tent.  Went for a well earned pint, came back and some ahole had tripped over a guy, fell onto the tent and snapped one of the poles.  Cowards never own up.    It was lovely trying to fix it at midnight and under the effects of ale.

Quote: Originally posted by Safeway56 on 19/6/2006

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Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 19/6/2006

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 I always run through the campsite rules with my kids before I let them off the leash in a new campsite...last time I went camping, we had a novice family with us and I lined their kids up too and got the whole mob to repeat the rules back at me..

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*Listen up you 'orrible little bleeders*

*You have entered MY camp...you are MY property*

*Is that clear?*................................YESSIR !!

*You are to follow MY rules...You are no longer persons in your own right *

*Is that clear?*.........................YESSIR !!

*You may have broken your mothers hearts but you won't break mine you 'orrible little people*

*Is that clear?*...........YESSIR !!

*Right...fall out...you are now Marines*

*Is that clear?*........YESSIR !!

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You were listening!

But they don`t say "YESSIR !!". They say "YESSIR SARGEANT MUMMY !!".

(Seriouly, they do. They`re taking the p***, but that`s what they call me. They still do what they`re told though, so I don`t mind.  )