PEGGING OUT
Happy and trouble-free camping is a combination of a whole lot of equipment interactions. Get it all right and you sail through the easiest of days and the toughest of trials. Get even the smallest of decisions wrong and you can have a day – or worse, a night – of hell.
Even the smallest and seemingly least significant of components in your set-up can prove majorly important. Take, for example, the humble tent or awning peg. Seemingly irrelevant, the effectiveness of awning pegs can suddenly become vital in the face of a violent storm or sudden gust of wind.
So let’s take a look at awning pegs. We’re not interested in the flimsy bent wire items given away with every department store tent, which will bend and fail the first time you drive them into hard ground, hit a rock or tree root, or subject them to stress from wind or rain. We’re talking about the real deal.
THE BASICS
Tent pegs were, until recent years, simply bent wire or round bar, driven into
