There is nothing like a great hike over 2 or 3 days.
You may be hiking as a group and will be carrying hiking tents.
However after a long days hike you have trekked off the mountains into the valley and are ready to set up camp for the evening.
No doubt the group will be tired and hungry.
This is the time to continue to work as a group.
Set some tasks for some individuals to cook the evening meal and others to put up the hiking tents.
Other group members can be collecting water etc.
For putting up the hiking tents make sure you have already practised this at home and you know how to do this without reading the instructions.
You can also make this fun by putting up the tent blind folded or in the dark - either way it is great practise.
However you may find that the surfaces you are putting up your tents may vary from camp to camp.
For surfaces that are hard you will need to use needle tent pegs.
These are strong, light in weight and very thin.
They are ideal for staking in very hard and rocky ground.
For surfaces that are very soft then an Angled tent peg is needed for putting up hiking tents.
These tent pegs have V shaped ridges that help grip the ground for a much better grip in soft conditions.
For either hard or soft surfaces if you are really stuck and you just do not have the correct hiking tent peg (for the surface required) you can improvise.
You can support your guy line with a big rock or boulder.
In addition you can tie the guy line to a tree or anything solid connected to the ground.
So work as a team when you stop for camp by sharing out the tasks.
When putting up your hiking tents make sure you know how to put it up and take different types of tent pegs for different pitching surfaces.
Above all have a great hike and a relaxing camp at each night stop.