Come and talk to me about tent pegs...

[YellowDinosaur]

So I was checking out go outdoors for tent pegs and couldn't quite believe the overwhelming array of different pegs on offer! Coming from a background of 2 types of pegs - tent pegs and bent tent pegs - I really don't know where to start!

Help!

without looking at the array you are, i'd always go for the traditional straight metal ones :)

Rock pegs are handy to have if you are on stoney ground where the traditional ones woud become the bent ones you spoke of (also called groundhog pegs). There is also the Delta Peg option - I have these for the main guyropes of our tent and they are fab.

I grew up with the traditional tent pegs or bent pegs too. Last year I went to a festival and many people had suggested rock pegs would be needed and definitely a mallet - pushed all pegs in by hand nice and easily.

I then went to France without the mallet (without any knowledge of the French word for one) and found myself quite stuck! After a couple of middle of the night attempts at wacking in my rock pegs/tent peg mixture and not getting very far, a kind French neighbour lent me some impressive things which he wacked in for me. I had never camped so close to the beach before and had been unaware that would mean sand (sand everywhere) and really hard ground (or tree roots or rock).

rock pegs are fab! and not too expensive either.

I have rock pegs. I'm told that the groun d in wales can tend towards the rocky. I covet delta pegs though.

Hmm may need to invest in rock pegs. And check out the deltas.

True - would be worth phoning ahead to check on ground condition a couple of days prior so that you can advise your party ;)