Yates Place, NC 11-12 Trip Report

I dropped down Saturday to meet everyone and enjoy the campfire for a while. What a great day. Here are a few pics of the gathering.

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Ahh the SST - Sweet Smelling Toilet
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And here are a few of the hammocks. There were plenty of trees to choose from!
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This was a really intersting way to secure an amsteel suspension without making a whoopie sling
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Here are some pics of the Mono Pole Stand

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Here is the real mystery. I know this canteen was hanging there in 2010, Who, how and why is anybodies guess?

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It may very become a national landmark! :lol:

looks lke you guys had a great time.Wish we could have made it out. Maybe we'll be able to cone to the next one

Looks like a great crowd - too bad I was tied up this weekend. Wish I could have been there.

Canteen in the tree. Old military trick for getting lines high up in a tree for an antenna. You can spin it right good and really launch it high up into a tree. The weight of the filled canteen will drag the line back down to the ground. Tie the end of the antenna to the line and haul it up into the tree.

Every once in a great while the canteen gets hung up and you can't get it down. I suspect someone knew the trick and was trying to get a high line up for a parachute or some other fly like cover.

I had a great time with everybody and really enjoyed my first group hang dinner sat night was excellent hope to have pics up soon it was great meeting everyone

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I had a great time with everybody and really enjoyed my first group hang dinner sat night was excellent hope to have pics up soon it was great meeting everyone

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I have some pics I will post tomorrow

This trip was an awesome one! this was my first one, and im diffidently going to do this again! and again! Thanks to all that came out!!

Enjoyed meeting everyone, good to get out for some hang time. Good time hiking with Tall Paul and HikingHanger.

I had a great time at my first group hang. Couldn't have spent the weekend with a better bunch of folks! Special thanks to all the camp chefs and to fluffythecat our designated pyromaniac!

Thanks Eaglej and Tallpaul for their patience as I turned from Hiknhanger to crampinhanger on the Dutchman's Creek trail. Whew! Anybody got a banana?

I really enjoyed my first hang. Great people and great food. I learned a lot of tricks. When I grow up I hope I am still in the woods like Bone Pile. Can'wait for the next trip. You guys got me thinking about a better design for the Porta-hang mono pole hanging system. Thanks to all who planned this trip lets do it again.

Looks like a good turn out. I hope to be able to make the next one. :cool:

This was just my second group hang and it was great to meet everyone. I think it was the perfect hang. Great people, wonderful food, perfect trees, and nice weather. What more could we ask for? By the way Lite Foot, I haven't grown up yet either!

What a great way to spend the weekend... in the Piney Woods with fellow hangers. The weather was perfect as well. The group meal turned out great thanks to everyone who contributed.

Thanks to EagleJ for the use of the yeti underquilt. I knew I could count on fellow Hammock Forums members to bring an extra underquilt for me.

Thanks Fluffy for tending the fire. It was truly impressive and warm.

Lifefoot that treeless hammock stand is genius. Thanks for sharing stories and advice.

Thanks to all that came and camped. This was my second group hang and 3rd time actually hammock camping. I love it. I will try to post some pictures when I am home with the pictures I took.

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That's the nice thing about Yates Place is there is plenty of room and trees to spread out in.

Right now I'm planning on spending Thanksgiving weekend (Fri & Sat nights) vic Lick Mountain.

Looks like a cool place. Where is this Yate's Place? I don't recall seeing a thread about it.('course I was thinkin' about the Gorge for the last 6 months!:laugh:)

its in uwharrie national Forrest its a really nice campground

Wished I could have made it. I haven't really been participating in the forums, or hanging since my wife has been working crazy shifts at her job. The good news is that she just started a steady first shift position and I am going through my gear to start back hanging. I won't miss another one.

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Looks like a cool place. Where is this Yate's Place? I don't recall seeing a thread about it.('course I was thinkin' about the Gorge for the last 6 months!:laugh:)

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Here's a link to the Park Map: http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_...rdb5188173.pdf

Here's the Uwharrie National Forest Webpage: http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/nfsnc...a/?recid=48934

Uwharrie is a well-kept, secret little gem of a forest :D

Nice fire.
No getting cold around that one.

HB, Mapsource gives the following coordinates for Yates Place:

N35 21.892 W79 59.338 (Located on Dusty Level Road)

I had a great time at this hang. Can't wait to do it again in March. I'm hoping to have an all new setup by then....

Great little video and dare I say it, and even greater bunch of photos. The mono Pole stand is pretty interesting. That canteen sure is quite the mystery. Who, how, why indeed! Oh, and I like the shot of the dunny, good to see that made it into the report. lol Thanks for the report Hogg Tyed, it was very interesting!

Thanks for the wonderful pictures. That mono stand looks mighty interesting. Does it breakdown easily?

Yes the mono stand breaks down easy. I built one like this after the trip, been meaning to post a video on how to do it.

I need to make something for backyard hanging. And of course it needs to be x2.

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I need to make something for backyard hanging. And of course it needs to be x2.

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Good luck building your stand(s)

There is also this one: http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ad.php?t=55345

And, of course the turtledog stand is about the easiest and least expensive to build.

So many choices...

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Yes the mono stand breaks down easy. I built one like this after the trip, been meaning to post a video on how to do it.

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This video I would like to see! Hope you get a round 'Tuit" soon :)

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Yes the mono stand breaks down easy. I built one like this after the trip, been meaning to post a video on how to do it.

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I priced the stand that Loki posted. It was too expensive for me. It was also not as light and easy to pack down like the monostand.

I like this other stand and I am waiting for someone to post some instructions on whats needed, sizes etc. thanks folks.

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I priced the stand that Loki posted. It was too expensive for me. It was also not as light and easy to pack down like the monostand.

I like this other stand and I am waiting for someone to post some instructions on whats needed, sizes etc. thanks folks.

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Thanks for the bump. I'll see if I can get it done this weekend.

Looks good indeed....

Sure like the looks of that mono stand

Grtz Johan

Posted a separate thread on the pole and setup here
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