As the journey starts ...... ahhh, fun stuff.
Look forward to seeing your final choices.
Shug
As the journey starts ...... ahhh, fun stuff.
Look forward to seeing your final choices.
Shug
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You may take a look at this thread. It will give you some ideas for a starter system
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." -Terry Pratchett
CYOKLEY, I bought a Cat's Meow as my first bag about a year ago, and was able to get it down to a reasonable size with the compression straps on the stuff sack. The bag served me well on an AT section hike in September. That being said, I nearly froze a month later on top of Standing Indian Mt. when the temp unexpectedly dropped into the 20's. If I had it to do over again, I would have put the extra money into a lighter and warmer (and more expensive) down bag. It's easy to unzip your bag if you get warm, but not a lot of fun if you get too cold. A year later, and I'm in the market for a new bag.
I have had an exped downmat 7, paired with an REI 0 degree bag, down to 25, and was completely warm - in fact, i was so warm that I shed most of my layers during the night. I slept comfortable with the same pad at 30 degrees in nothing but a t-shirt and boxers inside of my sleeping bag.
I have since switched to an underquilt, so don't expect to go much lower, but I would predict that the downmat 7 would be warm to at least the teens.
A downmat 9 could potentially be warm to zero degrees, if you have adequate top insulation.
Do follow the above advise.
Do get the cheapest hammock to start.
Lifetime daytime hanger.
Two seasons into overnights : summer and fall. Down to 30deg.
We bought a ENO Doublenest then began to consider nighttime hanging.
THEN found this site.
My first moonlit summer night I was hooked. My husband not as much.
Reading and learning here will at first confuse then help sort out what is best for you.
Our second hammock is a ENO singlenest ( would not get this again ),
there WILL BE a WB BlackBird in the future.
Like the ENO Doublenest because it can wrap around you like a cocoon ( for quick naps with few bugs )
and no attached bugnet.
Got a Speers Snugfit UQ for husband and have made ( DIY ) varied seasonal cocoons ( for me ) and topquilts.
Welcome and Enjoy.
Last edited by G...Hawk; 01-14-2010 at 12:08.
I categorize the ultimate setup as this:effective and easy, in that order. Simplicity is most important to me, as on extended hikes i tire of retying knots over and over, which is why i love the whoppie slings and marlin spikes, and why i love the sliding prussic tarp over ridgeline method. My only thing i need to resolve is guyouts, as of right now im just doing a few wraps around the stake and then a "loop wrap" to secure it. I would like to get a system for the tarp tieouts where there are no knots (similar to a whoppie or ucr), the hold is strong, and has an elastic/flexible element to it. THen my setup would be totally the way i want it.
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