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I have always, in my short hanging life, hung my HH as tight as I could. I'm starting to get the impression its not the way to go. How tight should the hammock be hung? One post said the ridge line...

I am considering using rings with a garda hitch to tie my HH to the tree huggers. What are the issues if the hitch and ridge line are to tight? I always tried to tie it off as tight as I could using...

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A quick followup from a neophyte hanger,...

ya know you described my ritual as well, what a pain. So the quilt is tucked around or just pulled on top of you? Sounds like a silly question, but not having used one I am curious as to the method....

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Ok you guys are persuasive, I've shaken...

When are you planning on going? I plan on 2010, using the MacCat Deluxe as well, and the nest and the no sniveler. Thats todays plan anyway. I agree the tarp is the way to go and carried separately...

What is your set up for winter? rain?

Ok a larger tarp, perhaps the square Blackcat, gives more protection, more square footage to crawl under. I like my snake skin for the HH, stuff sack for the tarp?

An under quilt, sniveler, and...

Well I have some concerns, due to inexperience probably, planning my hike and I have some concerns with a few hammock things.
1. Setting up in weather
2. Staying out in weather, bad weather would...

I have the HH Explorer Ultralight. Would the JRB Nest actually fit in the snake skin with the hammock and tarp? With ease? Which size skin? ankh

BP Magazine, not a very good answer, thats why you guys are my source!!



Q.} Dear Kristin, I want to start going ultralight. I've looked at tarps and bivy sacks but what do you think about...

I figured I could get 40 degrees out of this, and I'm a leg moving, bent knee sleeper so I'm assuming no compression and isn't it the compression that causes loss of loft and cold sleep?

I am...

This weekend I did an overnighter on the AT here in NJ. What a sleep! I used the wallyworld egg crate pad cut down to 2/3 the original size. The pad was perfect I used it two weeks ago full size and...

Yup there is a learning curve to hangin'. This weekends lesson, loosen the prusik knot on the HH 'cause when you hang it and try to pull the hammock tight if the tarp is stretched tight the prusik...

Thanks to Scouts I have become involved in camping, hiking, and backpacking. My son loves the camping not so much the meetings. We have at least an outing a month and I have taken on a venture patrol...

Here are 3 of our hammocks and a picture of the boys with their "island mate" Paige, a wonderful young lady.

we bought several of each, from scouts to ultralight, for scouts and leaders.

HH gave us a 20% break and cut us a discount with shipping. They were very supportive of the scouts.

The only thing was the huggers weren't free as advertised on line cause they don't combine...

Just returned from Sea Base, Summerland Key and spent 4 nights hanging on Big Munson Island. Our entire crew, 8 people hung, 6 of them for the first time.

The second crew had 4 hangers.

In a...

I am leaving in 5 hours for the flight to Fla, there will be 11 hammocking scouts and leaders on Big Munson Island, BSA Sea Base. Everyone is psyched about hammocking. ankh

Well I received 9 HHs for scouts and dads heading off to Fla for a week camp on an out island in the Keys, Sea Base. We were setting them up today and the big questions were rope tension, how high to...

Stoikurt, please do, thanks in advance

Ok I am intrigued after my original hot weather post. What are some of your sleep systems and weight that comes with them, not to mention carrying this stuff.

My typical back packing trip with the...

OK, following the thread, pads are used for warmth, not really for comfort in the hammock(?) so in hot weather lying on or in a sleeping bag liner or light fleece bag on the hammock material ...

I gotta share this thought, back sweater??? Geez all I could picture was a real hairy back, too funny.

OK so I get the feeling a fleece bag may be enough to sleep on/in without a pad? But I think...

Further info, we are kayaking out to the island about 5 miles, space is limited on the yaks.

When bags, quilts, liners are used, you don't crawl in them like sleeping bags? You sleep directly on...

Hammockers, help, I am taking a group of Boy Scouts on a Florida camping trip, Sea Base, and have spoken about the advantages of hammocking. It really seems the way to go on a Florida Key out island....