Posted by Eric Abraham on July 03, 2012 at 06:13:19 user EricAbraham.
I remember that at the beginning of Swallows and Amazons when the Walkers were first camping on Wildcat island, they had tents their Mother made. These tents were weighted down with rocks in sewn in pockets.
Last week I was camping near and at the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado. I have a fairly old dome pop-up type tent which kept trying to blow away, as I have never used tent pegs (usually the sleeping bag is enough to hold it down). I placed near-by large rocks into each corner of the tent and no more problem! Did this for three nights and two locations. Not quite "rocks in pockets", but rocks in the corners did the same thing!
I thought - shades of Mr. Ransome!
Interesting the things on thinks about while alone at almost 10,000 feet!