About this product
The guy lines that come with most tents are an afterthought – thin, pale, and invisible after dark. Replacing them is one of the cheapest upgrades you can make to a tent, and this is the cord to do it with: 10 m of 4 mm line with a premium nylon inner core rated to 260 kg.
The feature that matters most is the two reflective strands woven through the braid. Under a headlamp, a torch, or vehicle headlights coming into a camp site, the whole line lights up. Anyone who has walked into a guy line in the dark – or watched someone else do it and take the tent corner with them – knows exactly why that is worth having.
Aluminium adjuster tensioners come with it, and they change how you pitch. Instead of tying and retying a taut-line hitch in the dark, you slide the tensioner and the line holds. When the wind gets up at two in the morning and everything needs tightening, that is the difference between a two-minute job and getting properly awake.
Ten metres cuts into enough lengths to re-line a small tent completely, or to rig a tarp with lines to spare. It suits camping anywhere in Tanzania – coastal wind at Kigamboni and Bagamoyo, exposed pitches in the Serengeti, or wet ground in the Southern Highlands where guy lines take more strain than people expect. It comes in army green.
Camping Tent Rope - 10m (Army Green)