MSR Groundhog Tent Stake

Summary

Great tent stakes!

These are my go-to tent stakes. Very solid aluminum. I have used these stakes for over 4 years now and have not bent one yet.  They are still straight and solid.  The tops of the stakes get banged up a bit from using rocks to slam them into the ground, but that is to be expected.  

I highly recommend replacing the cheesy stakes that come with most tents with these ones.  

Summary

Worth every penny.

My Grand Trunk Funky Forest Tarp is like a sail in high winds. These stakes hold even in loose soil. One of my best recent purchases!

Summary

Broken stake.

Let me start off by saying I love MSR products. I really wanted to like the Groundhog stakes but I just couldn't. 

I was pressing down on one of the stakes last weekend and BOOM! Snap. Broke it right in two.

To justify, I was not pressing with such force that it should have broke. I was shocked, disappointed...then angry! Luckily I carry extra stakes. Like another user said, no stake is indestructible but for the amount of pressure..or lack thereof...I'm shocked that it broke. 

Again, I will always use MSR products, but I won't be picking anymore of these up in the future. 

Summary

Awesome stake for various conditions!

I've used these stakes several times now. They hold well in regular dirt, wet dirt and stand up to hard frozen ground as well. Icy New England soil bent up a few of my standard steel stakes, and then I wised up and got a set of these. They didn't show any signs of distress as I stomped them into the ground!

Very tuff stake! Beat em' in with a rock, if ya hit another rock on the way down go ahead and hit it a few more times to try and power thru, even if ya don't get thru the stake won't bend!

Has great hold on angled guy outs. Lines hold tight in the notches and stakes come out easily with a pull on the retrieve cord.

I carry six of these along with a few cheap aluminim stakes, I use the GroundHogs on the vestubile entrance since that gets alot of pulling around, and on the main guy out lines to keep things tight.

Well worth the few dollars I spent.

These are as good as it gets in the Y-stake department. They are sufficiently light considering their legendary strength. The cord-loops make removal easy, and they scoff at my feeble attempts to brutalize them with rocks and hardpan.

I bought 6 to compliment my 6 GoLite Y-stakes.

Tough, lightweight and never pull out of soil (snow is a different story).

I would replace these in a minute if I lost them.

AWESOME. super lightweight, super heavy duty. easy to pound, angle, and guy out with, easy to remove as well w/attached cord. color is easy to see.

The TRI-design makes them very resistant to pulling out 'sideways' through loose soil when you pound them in diagonally.(I use mine to guy out the rain tarp for my ENO hammock)

The only downside is the volume, they take up more space than traditional stakes.

Seem INDESTRUCTIBLE (by normal use that is!)