Quote Originally Posted by sidvicious View Post
this is the thing about a comfort comparison. to equate the ground with hanging, the mattress has to be superb and/or supreme. so, yeah........we can fashion a really light ground kit. its just a wild-eyed guess, but my thinking is it'd take a 2+ inch tricked out mattress at least to get the ground in the ballpark.

i should qualify by adding that i'm in the 50+ age crowd.

sv-
i agree on the principle of your statement and i can assure you it would take more than a teched out 2" mattress. I have an exped synmat 7 and 9 from my ground dwelling days. the 7 is a little over two inches and the 9 a little over three inches and neither make the ground more comfortable than a hammock. lol Exped does make a huge version now that's basically a twin sized mattress. that might do it, but you'd need a sherpa to haul it around.