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After most of 4 adult decades outdoors in Floridia, there are few times when you won't need the bugproofing. A double-layer hammock is great to keep the skeeters off your butt and all, and I still...

Don't even get between me and my MacCat Deluxe. That pup's been road-tested through ten (yes, ten!) days of Tropical Storm Faye the other year. I stayed high and dry the whole time. The winds...

I skin mine, then stuff it into an outer pocket or just under the lid for fast access. Three years, no problem---the MacCat is still going strong.

Mal

I don't have any interest in camping in a full-blown hurricane, but the TS's can be fun. And a darn good gear test, too! I put me and my gear (MacCat Deluxe & HH) through TS Faye in '08. She was...

w00t! You go, girl!

Mal

Forget Winter storms---try the tropical kind! Wheeeeeeeeeeee. . . . :D

Another alternative: Go to your local bicycle shop and score a bottle of White Lightning (or whatever has replaced it since I stopped pedaling). It's a paraffin-based chain lube. Dry as a bone...

Off topic, but such is life. . .

The very first trick I learned was when I started hammocking in my sister's South Florida back yard. There was one tree---a coffee tree my iguana lived in. There...

I'm in hiding in the woods of N. Central Florida, just off the Ocala Trail. Not too far from BumpJumper, in fact. . .

Hey, Brian!

Hadn't heard about your go-round with the ticks. That sucks.

I'd definitely like to get on board a Florida gathering. Haven't been on a group hang since I met you at Juniper...

No kidding, that's what really happened! I wouldn't say that hammock hanging is safer than ground dwelling wrt lightning, though. If you get hit, you get hit. Either way you'll probably get fried....

I've had my HH Exped in nearly constant use for 3 yrs. now. I wore a hole in it once where it rubbed against a fallen tree trunk under it, and have had to repair tears in the netting. The velcro...

99.9% of the time I'd have to agree. However, I was hammock hanging in Fern Forest park in Ft. Lauderdale one July 5th when an afternoon squall line came through. No problem, thinks I, I'm in the...

I use a Wally World blue pad inside my HH when it gets extreme (that's 32F and below in Florida). I cut it down to fit from just above my shoulders to just below my butt. If you position it inside...

TeeDee, you are a sho'nuff, natural-born, stone genius! :boggle:

Muchas gracias,
Half Step

Heck, I'm looking at what you're doing. Most of what camping I'll be doing will mostly be by canoe or small raft. Hanging hammock on the way, of course. I've got back and walking issues, too, that...

Hang the hammock high enough to sit on, and stake the tarp low and tight, back-side to the wind. A bottom weather shield keeps off any bottom splash from the ground. A poncho will work just fine as...

T-Back,

You've done more in your "failed" ECT hike than most completely healthy folk ever manage. You haven't failed at anything.

I can relate somewhat to your back problems, with several...

Good suggestions by all.

I always check out my gear with an extended backyard camp out, my backyard being several wooded acres :D That way you get to know your gear and its capabilities before...

Turk signed to replace Les Stroud. Film at eleven. . . .

:laugh:
Mal/HS

. . . Well, it was inevitable.

I could live with "that green" . . . if I could just afford it! :D

Ook ook!
Mal/HS

I said "Doctor! Ain't there nothin' I can take?"
I said "Doctor, to relieve this sinus ache?"
You put the boy in the hammock
And you raise the head up.
You put the boy in the hammock
And you...