Preparation and planning are essential to a successful backpacking trip. Each trip presents different weather, terrain and logistics. These differences, among others, require us to modify our preparation for each trip. The following video demonstrates one modification that backpackers should make to their tents before they travel Grand Canyon.
Choosing to put your campsite on a hard rock surface is a great way to minimize impact while backpacking. Setting up your tent on a hard rock surface can be very difficult. Especially when you try to drive a tent stake into the ground. I have decapitated many stakes. The lightweight and ultra-lightweight tent stakes are virtually worthless when backpacking below the rim. The ground is simply too hard. I have heard the cries of disgruntled campers, cursing out their tent stakes as they bend or break as they attempt to stake their tent in an area that is nothing but a hard rock slab.
The following video demonstrates a simple, yet effective way to secure your tent in Grand Canyon or anywhere else that you may minimizing your impact by camping on rock.
Part of your Grand Canyon trip planning should include an Outsak, Animal Resistant Storag Bag to protect your food from unwanted campsite raiders.
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