Puckster wrote on Feb 18^th, 2010 at 2:49am:

Most recently, this year I'll be packing a hard rubber ball, with a hole drilled through the middle and parachute cord tied to it, to help hang bear rope.  prouboy

Make it a hollow core ball (like a tennis ball) and cut a slit on the other side.  Then after you've used it to toss your bear rope, you can squeeze the ball to open the slit and put it on top of a ridge pole to keep from poking a hole in your tarp.

dd