A couple of other alternatives ...

(1) wipe/scrape most of the dirt off the stakes in the morning and just roll them up in the tent body. This depends perhaps on how your particular tent gets packed up.

(2) I use MSR needle stakes,
http://www.backcountrygear.com/catalog/accessdetail.cfm/MSR472
If you look at a picture of these, you see that the head is a little hook. It's possible to lay a couple of these down side-by-side with hook-sides up and a couple of others side-by-side on top of the first two with hook-sides down and nest these with the points of one pair into the hooks of the other pair. Put a rubber band around them and you have a unit with no pointy bits, just the rounded heads at both ends. Then just drop this unit in external mesh on your pack or put them whereever.

I guess it depends in part on what you're trying to protect against --- dirt, or sharp points.

The First tube comes in at 0.5 oz
2nd tube at 0.4oz
TT Bag 2 grams
Golite Bag 0.2 oz

Both tubes can carry 12 Ti stakes plus 4 MSR Y stakes, guy lines

Edited by CRECHEN on 10/17/2009 20:29:44 MDT.

An interesting reflection on the 'GoLite' brand. Their stake sack is 3 times heavier and about 4 times bigger than the TT one.
Fwiiw, mine looks like the TT one, but is maybe 15 years old.

Cheers

Well Roger KISS (keep it super simple) is always the goal and if one is careful in putting those pegs in that kind of bag and rolling them up with the tent, they will do the job.
However... sometime ago one of my little bags developed some holes ( not sure if it was me or a loaner) so since I had some of those plastic pouches that I kept "just in case" I used one for a while.
I am now using one of those little bags again...
Franco

I bought a tent years ago that came with the stakes wrapped in a simple square of light canvas. I took that idea and used a scrap piece of Tyvek and a rubber band. I arrange the stakes diagonally on the Tyvek, fold the points over the stakes and wrap them up. You can double folds over the ends to make it more puncture resistant. The Tyvek scrap is useful as a "door mat" for my tent, dry spot to sit, etc.

> The Tyvek scrap is useful as a "door mat" for my tent, dry spot to sit, etc.

Clever!

I made a spinnaker peg sack today using the stuff sack kit from Thru-Hiker.com. It measures 6.5" x 2" which is probably about what the TT one is. Mine weighs 1.9g (0.07oz) which is lighter than even the ziplock bag (2.5g) that I used to keep them in.

The Candy tube seems easier to use if you are storing guylines in or storing razor sharp stakes, but otherwise a simple peg sack seems like the way to go.

Another commercial alternative is this one from Zpacks that weighs 2 grams and that includes a shockcord at the top which fold over and holds the stake bundle tightly.