I've been happily sorting out the backpacking schedule for the year with my buddies. Our inaugural outing will be in March, to a large state park (Henry Coe) on the coast - the "real" mountains will be snowbound until May at the earliest.
I called to talk to the staff about routing and trails that might need maintenance - on the coast a single storm can make a trail impassable - and he was painstakingly going over my route, explaining where there were not so many flat places and I said I had a hammock and so did a couple others - "Oh, you're all set then."
A much nicer response than "you have a what?"
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