Plus One In the 'take it with ya" Column. To ensure that your site isn't taken while you are gone, the concept of a "decoy tent" has been proposed on HF before. It is a good Idea. If you patronize...
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Plus One In the 'take it with ya" Column. To ensure that your site isn't taken while you are gone, the concept of a "decoy tent" has been proposed on HF before. It is a good Idea. If you patronize...
Another excellent hang! Nice meeting new people, fellow hangers, friends and family of the bride and groom, as well. This side of the hill should be considered for a re-location next year. Much...
I have a spare cooler not doing anything that can be tossed in the car and maybe donated to a new home. Could even put 3 gallon jugs of frozen water in it. Planning ETA Thurs. evening.
While "vacationing" in Wally World It is obligatory to check out their hammock selection. They have an Equip Single Person Mosquito hammock for $39.99. Close examination of the micro print reveals it...
Not at Squirrel? Just keep going on past it on around the corner? The banner will be flown, right? In any case, the gathering will be obvious, once we're near.
Looks like I will be able to make it this year. That T-shirt will be worth the trip by itself. Make it a 2XL for an aspiring FBI (fat boy frum Iowa)
Any time BUT duck season! The pre-dawn artillery barrage is a rude alarm clock. And being surrounded by unpredictable armed drunks is unsettling as well. Otherwise its a great place to hang. Plenty...
2 MRS SIPPY riverside spots: Ted Shanks conservation area 15 miles south of Hannibal. Free! If the river is down. It gets underwater easily. Another is 76 Conservation area On the riverbank East of...
Give us something to laugh about. Care to share an amusing event that happened while hanging? Try this: Several years ago on a nice summer's evening a hang in the back yard seemed in order. Night...
Congratulations on the wedding. Are we to understand the wedding will be at the hang? That would have to be a first for Hammock Forums.
Make kind of "snake skins" sap protectors for your hammock straps out of spare Nylon material about 5ft. long usually does it. If you get sap on the cover, scrape it off, and pat it down with talcum...
I've seen them many times in Northern to central Iowa. Mostly looking like someone shining spotlights up in the air on the far Northern horizon. The best show was on lake Candyohi in SW "Minnowsoda"...
All Clark hammocks I have owned come with a loop at the head end specifically designed to grab and pull yourself back up when you slide to the middle. Just one of many little nuances, like the pocket...
Well, (bleep) it all! Ya gotta really work at getting that readable. Sorry, folks. I plead computer ignert!
This came up last summer. I Drove down to Des Moines and had a chat with the X O of Iowa parks dept. Linked is her reply. Hopefully the last line says it all.151992
A harsh and embarrassing lesson learned....Don't cinch your tarp down till the seams stretch. You would not believe how much rainwater can come through those little bitty needle holes.
A new machine can be had at wally world for around $100, Or, if you can go to auctions or garage sales and get a good one for around $40. If buying one at auction, or used, be sure it is reasonably...
Last fall camping at Ted Shanks Conservation area south of Hannibal Mo. It's right on the Mississippi river bank, and free. There was a traffic jam of barges at lock and dam 22, going up river for...
Looks kinda like my Warbonnet Superfly. It's a digital tiger stripe pattern. Check it out for current availability.
Back in 1969, while on an all expense paid vacation to an exotic tropical paradise, many of us had to get used to the potty mouth lizards whose nocturnal call was "tic tic tic F--- YOU!" To say the...
Roger that. However, being in my 3rd Clark, the TX 250, with optional weather shield, I will offer a negative comment. The NX models with the 6 pockets are virtually uninhabitable in temps over 80...
Lookin' good! Just checked the weather report on kotatv.com the rapid city station. Thurs chance of rain, H70 L52 / Fri, Partly cloudy H75 L 55 / Sat Partly cloudy H80 L 56 / sun partly cloudy H86 L...
If there are not enuf XXL shirts, I would be willing to let someone have mine.
I don't hike, but last summer I stumbled onto a really nice area to hang. Ted Shanks area, a few miles north of Louisiana Mo. Right on the riverbank, lots of cottonwood trees to hang in the shade...
Please reserve one XXL shirt for an aspiring FBI (Fat Boy from Iowa) to add to his collection.
When I suggested catnip, I should've specified using it only on your skin. The spritzer application seems to be slightly sticky, so I usually just grab some fresh leaves and grind them up, pinch out...
There is another alternative to DEET. Catnip. Google it. It's supposed to be 10 times as effective as DEET. Crunch up a bunch of it to about fill an old coffee can, ad water, and boil it until You...
Don't grunt your tarp so tight the seams stretch. You would not believe how much rainwater can come in through those needle holes. I use Clark hammocks with the spreader poles. they seemed a bit...
Sounds like a top thread tension problem. Make sure your thread goes through that Hook thingy that goes up and down with each stitch. Don't know the technical term for that thing, but when my machine...
Can This aspiring fat boy get a 2XL this year? I'd put some "Smokey an the bandit" travelin' tunes on and drive all the way out there just for the shirt! (And to catch the Sunday evening jam session...
Still using the net hammock I bought from a "local national" street vendor and used to hang between army trucks on overnight runs in Viet Nam in '69-70. It was a whale of a lot better than trying to...
Still having a swap meet? I have several packs loaded in the car along with some other goodies. Trying to clean out the garage and dig down to the (gasp!) snow blower. Out the door and east bound.
Since some of You Never been there before, here's detailed directions: register at HQ, then go East (?) about a hundred yards on the blacktop rd. This is the lumber mill. drive over toward the porta...
Get some small (2X4 inch) ziplock bags from some place like Staples. Thread the line thru a hole in the bottom of the bag and tie a knot so the bag stays close to the tarp, hanging upside down, thus...
Swapmeet,eh? sounds interesting. Count me as "More'n likely." I was just there sat 13th Sep. met 4 ground dwellers from Waterloo at Browns hollow. After letting 2 of them try out my hammock, their...
Don't remember where I saw it, but Catnip is supposedly 10 times as effective as Deet. Pull off a bunch of leaves grind it up by rubbing between your hands and rub it on. Google search it if you...
Hammocks are regularly seen on the Iowa State University campus and around town. I sometimes enquire if they've heard of HF, and the reply is usually negative. When informed about HF the hangers are...
Another great trip to the hills. A big thank you to Sodakgirl for the tip on the sandstone caves. That's the neatest ting I've seen in the hills an many years. unfortunately the spare battery for my...
Sounds like fun. But I'm committed to going to a group hang out in the Black hills. (tongue in cheek) Planning to get wet again.
Reserve one doubleXL. If I can stop drooling on the keyboard. ETA Friday evening.
I use the same thing, but it only cost $15 at my local Fleet Farm or JAX outdoors. A real good unit, heavier fleece than wally world, and a zipper besides. Highly recommended.
Plus one on that. These group hangs are an excellent chance to meet good people of common interest, and there is the nearly obligatory "show and tell" checking out other folk's kit, how its set up...
I'll cruise around State Center Thurs. just after noon. A pop-up camper or purple tarp shouldn't be too hard to find.
What have you got in mind, Pat? Meet'ngreet, show'n tell, or an overnite campout? Timmons Grove county campground Between Marshalltown and Albion on Hwy 330 just south of the Iowa river would do for...
OK, I'm gonna stick my neck out and commit to being at yellow river state forest the weekend of Fri. May 6 and Sat 17, with a rain date a week later, which would be Memorial weekend. I've seen pix of...
I was looking at sending a contribution to become a subscribing member, and got put off by a typo in the address. Where is "Denamrk" Me.? A little finger twitch seems to have got by the site...
Just say where and when. I'm game.
Amazing that your son was so calm about it. What a story for family get-togethers for the rest of his life.
Looking for a wool blanket? Try auctions. They are an overlooked source of cheap bedding. 6-point hudson bay blanket cost me $110. ($310 new off the internet.) Got a fake hudson bay 3 1/2 point size...
Soon as no more "October surprise" style snow falls are guaranteed this flatlander will be having a beer in Moonshine Gulch. Any other time than the "Big Costume Party." see ya in august.