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The blue ones are designed for the guy lines as they are supposed to be a better anchor, but they don't cope with hard ground very well so many people replace them with stronger pegs such as Delta Ground Anchors.

The metal wire pegs are for the shock cords and other low level loops etc where they are not so important in the structural stability of the tent.

Welcome to UKCS by the way.

Yes, a very warm welcome to the site Andrew.

Quote: Originally posted by Andrew Jones on 13/4/2007

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Thanks for the info. Next question - are there any tips for getting the ******* tent back in its bag? This is by far and away the hardest tent I have ever had to pack up. In the end I managed to get everything in the bag, sort of, but it took a lot of time & effort. Even with the inner removed, the doors left open, the folding / rolling being arranged so that the open bits were always on the outside and using my 14.5 stones to squeeze the air out, it was a total pig.

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Quote: Originally posted by Liddenham on 13/4/2007

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Seriously, I think it is all in the folding (and making sure that as much air as poss is out of the tent, which you clearly have already sussed). We helped friends pack down their new Montana 6 and found it relatively easy, we folded from back to front, then same again, then used the bag as a guide to the required finished width and then folded sideways on to suit, rolling the last bit (if that makes any sense at all!). I was surprised how easy it was and it went back into the bag first time. Or was that just fluke?

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Hi Andrew,

Welcome to UKCS.

Did you leave a door open to enable the air to escape ? (Just a thought..which you may already have thought of).

Cheers,

Pete.