A 25 ft (7.62 m) clothesline in tightly woven polypropylene, yellow, with two ABS tensioning sliders.

The tensioners are the reason to buy a clothesline instead of using cord. A wet towel on a slack line sits in the dirt. Sliders let you pull it tight between two trees and re-tension it when it stretches, without re-tying anything.

Twenty-five feet reaches between realistic anchor points and still holds a family's worth of wet kit.

Polypropylene does not absorb water, so the line itself is not wet, does not rot, and does not mark what you hang on it.

Yellow, so nobody walks into it at head height in the dark. That is not decoration — a clothesline at throat height in an unlit campsite is a genuine hazard.

Drying wet gear is the whole difference between day two of a trip and day three.

California Proposition 65 warning: This product can expose you to chemicals including lead which is known to the State of California to cause cancer. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.