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Welcome from Butler, PA.

I've been using a Summer Sock with a netless for two years now. The Summer Sock is a great addition to your hammocking arsenal simply because it's a bug net, UQ Protector and wind guard all rolled...

I personally ordered about a year ago now. I am very pleased with the quality of the product I received, and the price I paid for it. There is a little lead time with any vendor that is smaller and...

Welcome from a Scouter from Pennsylvania. You will enjoy your time with your son. I have two boys in so far, one is life and one is tenderfoot, and our troop loves hammocks. We have a whole group we...

Hello from mid western, PA.

Just marked it on my calendar. Looks like it should be an open weekend.

Scoutmaster - Troop 16, Moraine Trails Council, Pennsylvania.

We have 2 adults hangers, and probably close to a dozen scouts that use them on and off.

Well I'll chime in as I just returned from an awesome weekend of hammock camping with my troop. Now my troop is a bring your own gear troop. My scouts tend to prefer their own tents to the mildew...

You have had some great info here. I teach hammocking 101 to my new scouts and go through lists of options with some of them. In your case the questions you need to ask are:

1. How important is...

Welcome from a Pennsylvania Scoutmaster.

Hello and welcome from Butler County.

I am hoping that nothing else comes up, but right now I'm free that weekend. I hope to be there.

Great, my troop had a few boys try it early on, but after I started hanging (I was ASM back then) the boys really took an interest. We just had a troop meeting on "Intro to Hammocking" where we setup...

Welcome from a Scoutmaster from Butler County, PA. You are right that we camp in some pretty rough weather sometimes. I've had my boys out in the field in the low 20s, I've seen some groups in the...

7/14-7/16 might be doable for me, it's probably the best possible weekend as long as my Hammock Zoning Officer (Wife) approves me being gone three weekends in a row.

Very cool and creative design idea. I keep wanting to make one of these for my son, maybe this will push me over the edge to try it.

Dang, sounds like a great time, but I'll be in Canada that whole week spending some quality time by a lake.

Welcome from Western PA.

I'm in Pennsylvania and do a lot of camping with my Boy Scout Troop also. Several of the scouts have seen my shemagh and adopted it too for face/neck covering. If the balaclava isn't your thing give...

Thanks for the video, wish I was able to make it. I had a great time camping in Dayton that weekend though with my troop. I hope to make it to the summer hang this year.

Well I'm not sure what temps the OP wants to get down to, but I was just out in the mid 20s and used a shemagh to keep my face nicely warm. I've always struggled with balaclavas, but I haven't tried...

There are several patch companies that will do custom prints, and the best man from my wedding recently bought a new embroidery machine for his business. The thing with patches is that they don't get...

Welcome from Western PA. Steelers Nation seems well represented here. Hope yinz have a good time with that new hammock.

It seems that the OP has found a solution, but I'll toss my 2 cents in still on both the original and now new issues here. Background, I have been a scout parent, den leader, Committee Chair,...

Welcome from a Scoutmaster from PA. I started several years ago the same way. Now days I have two boys in Boy Scouts, one about to start cubs and a Daughter in AHG. We get a lot of use out of our...

To add to this discussion, the homepage and search page of hammockforums was blocked yesterday by websense as being malware infected. i used their CSI service today and the homepage appeared cleared.

If you find out any dates let us know here if you can. I'll be working to plan our troops spring calendar in January and would like to make sure I don't have anything the weekend of this event.

I use one. I went the cheap route though. I picked up a youth hammock from 5-below, took off the heavy rope and s-hook suspension it came with, and replaced it with some lightweight hollow core...

Welcome from western PA.

I'm 6'0" and I had horrible heal pain in my old 9'6" hammock. I upgraded to an 11' wide and that seems to have reduced it. I also added a SRL and that also helps make sure I have a proper sag to my...

I had the thing this past summer during a week long summer camp. I was using my older grand trunk which is pretty short. I switched to a wide 11' long hammock in 1.6 beacon from Dutch. Fortunately it...

I can imagine. I think checking the Status page is kind of like shaking Presents on Christmas eve. :-D

Yeah I keep checking that order status waiting to see it shift from "New Order" To something else. I think Dutch and team must be totally slammed by all this.

I have not used these tablecloths yet, but some people wash everything before it touches their skin. My wife has some severe skin allergies and needs to do this with anything she wears or sleeps in....

I just picked up a spool of Zing-it from Dutch last month to replace my masons line with. I second the bad tangling of the braided line, but it's stretch caused me a lot of issues. I'm hoping that...

So true, so so very true. I think I'm up to 4 and my 10 year old is up to 2 hammocks now. We each have a turtle dog, and one of those conduit boom stake stands now to play with. I think that my next...

It's all good Uphill. I think you will be happy with the 1.6 Hexon. I have an 11' 1.6 Hexon Wide that I use all the time now. It's a great piece of gear, made of a great material. I've heard that the...

Welcome to the forums. This is a great place to hang out and pick up lots of info.

Yeah, I'm late to this party too, but like so many others I have a troop of boys that are starting to convert to hammocking from tenting. It sounds like the OP has settled on a solution, but I have...

So just an update on my project. I took this out last weekend for a nice cold test. We got down to the mid-20s and this performed great temp wise. I think I am going to add 6" of length to it though...

Welcome from the Pittsburgh area.

Welcome from another ASM from the Pittsburgh area.

Hey, welcome from Pennsylvania.

Wow is that a Monster or new XL? It just looks so much bigger than mine.

My first few nights hanging were in too short of a hammock and led to some heel pain, but now days it's usually the crazy constant sounds around here from the Marcellus drilling wells that keeps me...

Welcome from Western PA.

Check the New Posts section. it's the easiest way to keep up with the new hangs. There is a recent post on open hangs in Ohio. I keep up with the Ohio and PA hangs as I...

Welcome from Western PA.

Great pic. I've never seen one with the door tieouts used like that. Does provide more room inside? I may have to try that on mine.

Hello, from the western part of the state.

So November became 5 for 5 for me. I did make it to CTSR for a cold weather campout, but my son wanted to sleep in the Adirondack shelters there so I went to ground with him and did that. I sort of...