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I've posted a link to my trip blog here http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php?p=277766

There are a few pics (of relavent stuff) on the blog, but the old body hasn't handled the daily...

(That's the Khai Rides Across Canada Tour :P)

Sorry all - I totally thought that I had posted this link before I left.

http://kractour.blogspot.com/

Featured while camping are:

WBBB...

Cool - thanks guys! :D

I just picked up my new tarp (OES MacCat deluxe - thanks Brian!) and he treated the seams for me. Am I supposed to hang it sticky side up, or does it not matter?

My summer weight topquilt arrived this week and I picked it up yesterday. This was a custom project that I worked out with Adam before the Summer weight quilts were generally available on his...

I've got a custom Summer weight topquilt on order from Adam. I don't really know where it might fit in his standard product line, but since I'm pretty short we're saving some weight and increasing...

I don't know if Brian took more than an evening off to relax and celebrate... Very shortly after he posted that he was done, I got a shipping notification email that my tarp was on its way, and I...

I don't imagine that this is news to anyone who's been around here for a while, but I just wanted to say how impressed I am with Paul and his company, Arrowhead Equipment. Yesterday morning I placed...

That might be an East/West thing moreso than a North/South thing. I wasn't a hanger back then, but when I lived in Ontario there were always a lot of trees with a fairly small diameter - here in the...

That's awesome, man - congrats! I have lots of friends who are Engineers, and watching what they went through makes me so glad I never chose that path... :laugh:

So re: my tarp... can you make...

Thanks everyone - I'll look for some trees that are closer together and maybe stretch a little more when hanging the huggers. A little more fooling around with the hammock certainly isn't a chore......

Tonight I finally got out in my new WBBB for a first (and second) hang.

The first attempt wasn't great - my 6' huggers don't go very far in Western Canada, and I had to improvise and hang off a...

I just ordered a custom Summer weight topquilt from Adam from The Perfect Trees. He was a pleasure to work with, and I think this will suit my needs optimally. I'll post a review w/ pics once I get...

For anyone looking for warmer down booties, these might fit the bill...

I had a gap in my schedule this morning so I made a quick dash down to Point Roberts to pick up my WBBB, along with a few other things. It was raining all day today, and I don't have a tarp yet - so...

For the record, I just discovered/joined this forum this month, and those acronyms made sense to me. Maybe you need to spend less time doing productive stuff and spend more time reading the forum! ...

It's here! Well - it's there... I just got email notification from my package center in Point Roberts (WA) that it arrived. I won't be able to get down there until Monday at the earliest...

But...

You need to choose between a "sit on top", or a "hang from" type of scale. Most any decent food scale works well for stuff that you'd sit on top (pot, stove, etc). If you want to weigh a pack or...

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It just shipped!

Hello Khai,

Your package from Warbonnet Outdoors LLC is on its way. You can track it online using this tracking number.

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A lot of people seem to use eye screws with decent success, but the biggest ones I've seen are only rated to ~250lbs. Padeyes, like one would use on a boat are the best suggestion I've seen. ...

GoLite makes them in 4, 3, and 1 season varieties.

Call me infantile, but they make me smirk... :laugh:

You can find "accessory" 'biners that weigh very little, but the lightest climbing 'biners around are the Camp Nano's at 23g. I think they're rated at 20kN with the gate closed, and 7kN open/side...

The best price I found on Schwalbe Marathons was at SJS Cycles. I think they worked out to ~$50ea, landed.

There's a thought... Maybe I'll drop him a line and see what he can do. (I'm still adapting my thought process to the fact that many of these companies are 1 guy, or just a few people - and can...

Thanks guys, somehow I had missed the Shenendoah and was only seeing really warm quilts rated to cold, or very cold. I was beginning to wonder what everyone did in the summer!

Thanks - yours is the only thread that I found that referenced their quilts at all, so I'd love to hear your impressions.

I saw the Perfect Trees stuff and it looks really nice, but I'm thinking...

That's fantastic. Your wife has gained some new fans... :laugh:

Ah, cool - thanks guys!

I'm still a n00b here, so I'm easily confused. :p

In addition to this, the HH model that comes with a zipper probably doesn't have the bottom opening. If you still want that option available to you, go with the mod. (You could call HH to double...

Thanks to everyone thus far for all the helpful comments. I didn't know I;d need to take a Ferry! :p

I swear the madness never ends... (Is this just the tip of the iceberg? How far down does...

I did a search but didn't come up with a whole lot on GoLite... Does anyone have experience with their quilts?

I'm looking at this one for an 8 week bike trek this summer. (SPE underneath with...

In that MASSIVE SMC ring thread, one thing that kept coming up as a reason why many people preferred the descending rings over the CC buckles was because it enabled them to pull the suspension...

Ok - so I called up Hennessy this morning and spoke to a very nice lady who told me that I could just send it back; but because I ordered/paid via telephone they'd have to cut me a cheque once they...

Whoops - that was a typo. I leave on June 19th. That's not an awful lot of time for procurement and testing, especially when a lot of the purveyors are small operations who don't just pick items...

Just out of curiosity, is he really skinny? :p

Hmmm...

I leave on June 19th, so I really ought to get out and ride some more (and not spend all my free time reading about hammocks!).

The suggestion to add a zipper mod sounds like a good...

Thanks for the welcome! I can't wait until my hammock arrives and I can start making the neighbours scratch their heads and wonder...

The ride is West to East, and I'm not really sure how far...

Hi all, I'm not even brand new to hammocking yet as my HH UB was just ordered (hopefully on its' way), and I discovered this forum shortly afterwards while Googling to learn more about rigging.
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