Brilliant! I made a version of this in maybe 2005 with the same Amsteel Blue and two 6' cyclone aluminum fence posts, with a steel extender to join them. (Or...I guess maybe I didn't since I the...
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Brilliant! I made a version of this in maybe 2005 with the same Amsteel Blue and two 6' cyclone aluminum fence posts, with a steel extender to join them. (Or...I guess maybe I didn't since I the...
Ya know... this is STILL my favorite piece of gear.
The cuben bottom is the thin stuff but it helps retain heat and splash rolls right off. It's like a built in undercover. Works fine in the West...
Getting ready to upgrade my tarp.
Standard Hammock Tarp with doors (8.5 ft wide )
Or
Winter Palace (10.33 ft wide)
?
What do ya think (pics if you got em)?
Thanks in advance
Did anyone consider a monopod built along the same lines? 168622168623
Doors. I have had Too Many surprise-sideways-cold-rain adventures to count. Stays dry even when trees are sparse and not perfect relative to wind direction. Doors prevent the hammock from becoming a...
I'd just return it and get a new one. Then you can be confident the smell won't come back if it gets hot or humid. I have never had any issues with HG products (except that they spoil me for other...
The SOL Bivy is different than the SOL Escape. You may already know this; many "experts" made their mind up about the Escape without trying it out and they do themselves and their customers a...
Black does not dry appreciably faster. Nor does it get hotter or retain heat better. It's about diffraction due to color; it spreads the load of the sun's rays (though, again, technically measurably...
Love the bling but I have to +1 that
Eleven. Gave three to a young guy just learning the ropes. Often find myself wishing I'd got one of those back. <sigh>
Insanity is nothing to be proud of.
(nor ashamed of)
IMO the tree huggers are just to anchor my suspension line to the tree. I want that webbing to go around the tree a couple or five times so that the constriction spreads the load and doesn't bite...
What did you end up doing for this? I see that Sea To Summit has a product that is close to what I made for myself. I spliced shock cord loops every 8 inches or so over the center 10 ft of a 20 ft...
Some of the backpacks they make for carrying babies have a canopy. I have been thinking about how to use a similar design that pulls over the wearer instead of the cargo.
I imagine carbon fiber...
S - SITE selection is critical. Halfway up a slope, under healthy trees with no widowmakers, no ticks, no animal smells.
C - CATHOLES. I pre-dig two, one for over-the-side night peeing and one for a...
i stopped using ccf pads in hammocks in the early 1980's. i recommend getting yourself a high-quality full or 3/4 length UnderQuilt.
i currently own 11 quilts and i think i've had 20 in all....
water. it's water that is the real answer. because the question is not weather to use hand-san or which to use. the question is How do we best practice personal hygiene?.
water is both the most...
this is probably too late, but...
we did Skyline to Sea trail last month. i took my gf's 14 year old. his first backpacking trip ever. he's been a Camper. so here i was teaching him about pace and...
origin of the phrase "pipe down"
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/283600.html
Pipe down
Meaning
A request to be quiet.
Thanks for this. I've been wondering if the "you can hammock all the way" folks were both accurate and practical - particularly in light of the number of folks who say they are hammockers. My thought...
thanks for the link.
Yeah, it's gonna be 2016 for me. Health stuff. Gonna be waiting HARD for next April.
if it's an excursion, it IS about leisure. unless you're talking about descriptive physics.
If you want my downy UQ back you'll have to pry it out of my cold, dead buttocks
spandex gaiters (http://dirtygirlgaiters.com) are great to complete the foot coverage of a trail runner
but i still wind up emptying out a rock or bit of sand every couple of miles, maybe every...
thanks for the great replies!
I carry Walgreens $1 poly gloves when I hike. i have cuben mitts now though I've used exam gloves for decades - tried dishwashing gloves in the 1970s. good vb but...
Zpacks Asym Tarp with linelocs, glowire, 2 mini-groundhogs, dutch-hooks 7oz
Dutchware Speedhooks, Amsteel, and straps 3.8oz
Nanobuginator 6.2oz
Weight Weenie Micro 6.2oz
hammockgear burrow tq...
sorry. postholer link is http://postholer.com/steveflinn
got my entire order about 10 days after my last edit to this post. everything arrived and looks as awesome as advertised. haven't had a chance to test but i'm dying to get out there. Shane came...
It's been two months for me, also. I'm gonna stick with it a while, see if it pans out. I don't start the PCT until April, after all. Worse comes to worst, I'll take my Snipe and nuke a whale for the...
Thanks for that. I'm already wet- and cold- certified. Still trying to figure out what I can do that approximates my Lazy Slug Tube... without the 6.5 ounce weight penalty. Thinking a...
You can see my gear list at http://postholer.com/slinging%20bull but I'll run down my setup for you here.
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[constructive] Feedback is always welcome.
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Still deciding what pack to take. Gonna...
experience nurtures efficiency. i've been setting mine up daily on the back porch and doing weekend jaunts. now that i've settled on methods (i've spent a couple of years like you describe, playing...
it sure does sound like there's a lot of hikers out there this year. haven't heard anyone saying it's hellish or even a bad thing. but i have seen a ton of concerned-parent traffic when people don't...
The small fits my Incubator and Burrow just fine. I often think it too large...
FMM, changing the color of the snipe would not be the best idea ever. It's supposed to be black. Like a snipe. Sheesh.
you know what a guy needs sometimes is a driver of some kind for tent stakes.
Sweet! Hey, I'd like to pre-order three of those (pre-respectfully-request) in DynaGlide... which I think I could trust, as I'm a welterweight -- if I'm wearing heavy linens on a rainy day. That'd be...
i often use the slipped buntline, as shown in warbonnet's video. like warbonnet's default, i find linestrap is the lightest and simplest way.
not that it's not fun to try all the different...
I'm dreaming about the PCT in 2015. Which of you other HF'ers are thinking along these lines?
Naaah. Mine got me down to 10F without trying hard. Just use the instructions above to get the UQ properly sealed - gently but not loosely.
If you suspect the wind is robbing warmth, then maybe...
as a clothesline, as a pack and gear hangar, and in a pinch doubled up as a light-duty climbing aid
yeah. i use an adequate UQ and if it's cool-windy i use a doored tarp. add a sock in dry snow. canvas sock in freezes.
and sleeping naked? i like the capilene longies better. year-round. then the...
i use the JRB sleeves with my HG TQ when i'm reading and around camp. amazingly hepful.
Yes! That is actually helpful.
soft bottle is much better IMO. squeeze the air out and it conforms to your thigh over the femoral artery. also recommend you heat it only to a non-scalding temperature, just in case.
you want to use the AMK SOL Escape bivvy, not their "Emergency". it breathes, whereas the Emergency will result in moisture.
Every time we have an earthquake here in SF a bunch of people get the willies and move back to New Jersey.
It stabilizes the housing market a little bit; only thing that prevents property values...
Was gonna do business with Warbonnet but Wilderness Logics' stuff/service is so good I never got that far. I picked up an OMW tarp and decided anything more minimal would be cheating myself. It's...
Tremendous idea. Amen on the Charlie Chaplin comment, though Buster Keaton was in my mind's eye.
Without a solid deck I'd be expecting hellacious condensation...
Hey welcome from the Panhandle!