6 Pack Snow Stakes for Winter - 12.6" Lightweight Aluminum Tent Stakes for Sand, Snow & Soft Ground, Vibrant Color and Wind-Resistant, Durable and Easy to Install, Rust Resistant U-Shaped Anchors

I’ve taken my family beach camping for the last five years and one of the biggest challenges has been tent stakes holding in the sand. The first year we used the wire tent stakes that came with the tents, absolutely worthless. The next year we got big fat plastic ones which were a little better, but fail with only a little tension. Year three and four we used heavy duty auger anchors, which worked very well, but were large, heavy, and were difficult to screw into the ground.This year I’m trying these, and so far they are working great! They slide into the sand easily but have held the tension very well. I’m using a loop of twine and a carabiner to attach the tent straps, which is working well. And they are lightweight and take up a small amount of space.

I wanted an easier less time consuming way to set up my Neso sun shade at the beach. The sandbags work just fine but you have to fill the sandbags, maybe bury them, ultimately empty them when packing up.Even then the sandbags may be damp from the sand and need to be dried out.Then there's the need for a shovel unless you want to fill the bags by hand which is even more work. Slapping 4 stakes in ground solves all these issues.And they worked. I was able to pound them in with a short block of wood, no need for a big heavy hammer. They held the shade sufficiently.I was able to yank them out of the ground by hand by wiggling a bit and yankingThese come in a set of 6 and I just need 4 so I have a couple spares. A large carabiner works in keeping them together.Sand stakes work fine 5 Stars...however there's a huge safety concern with these as I almost found out. The stake and the guy lines are a tripping hazard at best, and a possibility of cutting someones foot. People go barefooted at the beach and step on things.So the next time I use these I'm going to bring my shovel which I hoped these would have avoided, and use it to bury each stake in a 2 foot mound, serve as both physical protection and visual clue there's a rope here. So if using at a busy beach, assume someone will step on these, be proactive and bury or cover them.

Got these to complement some 10" Harbor Freight stakes. The HF stakes are for firm ground. These Cosmos work great in sand.I used them three ways in sand, and they held up find to sustained 20mph winds and gusts over 30mph. In fact, they did this even though I (unwisely) pitched the rather large REI Kingdom 6 tent crossways to the wind, rather than aerodynamically into the wind. I had to TRY to get the view :)The first way I used them was traditional: peg angled down into the sand; tent guy looped over the lip on the stake. This was fine for corners where the wet sand was close to the surface, and I could get the stake perpendicular to the guy line.The second way I used them was less traditional. I fed a bottom loop on the guy line through the small hole near the bottom of the stake, then pulled the loop over the stake. This is a bit hard on the line, but I'd rather replace line than have an anchor pull out. With the line in the small hole I'd cut a thin line in the sand along the expected path of the guy line, then shove the stake into the sand as far as I could, so the guy line was buried. This held up fine even with sand that was dry quite far down.The third way I used them was also traditional. On my large tent (rated for 6 people) there are intermediate tiedowns between the major anchor points near on the tent poles. These are very important to keep these parts of the fly from dripping condensation (or rain) on the tent body. For these I dug trenches about 6" deep and buried the stakes, with line looped as for the second stake. This took short bits of line, with the two loose ends coming up high enough to tie on the tabs on the fly.End result: tent stayed snugly guyed down with almost no day-to-day readjustment of the tie points.I wonder how my tent would do in snow? It would almost be worth it to try, just to see if the stakes work as well in snow as sand!BTW: I think having these be 12x1.38" instead of 9x1" (which is typical of other similar LOOKING stakes) makes a BIG difference! Having over 16 square inches in the sand is much better than just having 9!

These work well in soft ground where you can push them in with just your hands but if you're using a mallet to dig them into harder ground then chances are you will bend the top half completely out of shape.

These were PERFECT for holding taut lines for a tarp over a pet crate in my SW Florida yard, where the soil has the consistency of pure sand. (See my photo of a camo tarp over a pet crate for feeding feral cats outside in wet weather.) I first tried some long but narrow aluminum stakes, and even the lawn root system did not prevent them from pulling out through the ground lengthwise. These are nice and wide and PLENTY STRONG. I mostly pushed them in by hand, and used my foot to push them a couple final inches. Someone complained about them being weak and bending. I disagree; they're not "weak". Sure, you could bend them by hammering with a hard hammer if they hit a rock or hard root, but these stakes aren't designed for those conditions. I'd wondered whether a loop of cord would stay in place around the collar at the top of the stake ... or whether I should pass my cord through one of the holes. But, by angling them correctly (buried toe toward tent, collared head away from tent) and ensuring the concave surface faces the tent, the curved collar was fully sufficient to hold the loop of jute that I used to tie the corners of my tent.

These worked great to anchor my tent in very loose beach sand.

Great sand stakes!!! I used ropes as leads to my canvas camping tent. Put the rope at bottom hole of the stake. Dug down into the sand to get it like 7 more inches deeper then hammered them down at an outward angle with the inside of the scoop facing the tent. Survived probably 45 mph gusts during a thunderstorm on the beach of Lake Michigan. Definitely would recommend for sand only.