Are we no longer “special”?

**gumby** · 08-05-2007, 09:59

Originally Posted by sk8rs_dad

IAnybody want to market a portable change room that hangs from your hammock line? Yeah, I know you can change in your hammock, but what about getting out of your wet bathing suit at a KOA?

You may be able to change in your hammock, but how about getting out in your Kilt? Sorry Doctari, I just had to say that

**Shadowmoss** · 08-05-2007, 10:17

As every female learns early on, the trick is to keep your legs together and tuck the material around each side. If you move your legs together in one move, then it is possible to stay modest in many unusual circumstances.

Then again, I think it must be amusing to watch the male of the species try to maintain modesty when he isn't used to doing so

**stoikurt** · 08-05-2007, 17:45

On the hammock camping group there was a lot of talk about "lungi's" a while back. Might be worth looking into. Maybe someone could look into making a hammock sock, out of some real light dark material, that would double as a lungi.
Google "lungi" to find out more.

**blackie** · 08-05-2007, 19:36

when i began camping in a hammock 30yrs ago nobody in my neck of the woods used them...every time i put one up it drew flack from the other campers....today..when i say i camp in a hammock...they just say" oh i have heard of doing that..sounds like a great idea.."" thus begins a 2 hr talk on the joys of hanging... who knew we were the wave of the future

**Nightwalker** · 08-05-2007, 22:23

Originally Posted by SteinbergerGPPRo

Plus i've always been under the impression that the hammocks were always more for hiking than car camping. A hammock is a light solution to comfortable sleeping which is perfect for hikers and leave no trace people, but when weight is not an issue it's probably more effective to stick to a large tent.

I do it for comfort, not weight. I actually have to carry more weight, currently, to hammock than I did to lay on the ground. I had spent years getting all of the lightweight stuff, and now I'm having to start over. I had a 23 ounce tent, a 5.9 ounce pad and a 24 ounce sleeping bag. I'm nowhere near that level of weight yet for sleeping at as low of a temp. I've been in that earlier rig down as low as 10 degrees Fahrenheit. I can't do that in the HH yet, and when I do, it'll weigh more.

**cameronjreed** · 08-06-2007, 09:55

I showed a friend my HH Explorer. I let him lay in it for only a few minutes one Saturday and now he has his own HH Desert Rat. I made a hammock and then ended up giving it to my brother after he slept one night in it and wanted to know where he could get one. I just made another DIY hammock for myself. If I can get my dad into a hammock I am sure I could get him out of his tent.
The fact that people look at us as "special" or "eccentric" or whatever is FINE with me!

I would rather be comfortable and weird than chiding and making fun while struggling with a back/shoulder/hip ache.

**eflat7** · 08-06-2007, 11:48

I definitely hammock camp for comfort. I am always amazed at how good Ive slept when I wake up in my hammock. It took me awhile to figure out how to get comfortable, but once i found that place.... its darn near perfect.

**TDunc** · 08-06-2007, 12:31

We (my son, two of his friends and I) were in a commercial campground in Myrtle Beach this weekend with all four of us hanging. (State park messed up our reservations for primative area)
We did set up a small tent to change in and hold our "stuff".
We had many people "look" and look some more.. ask alot of questions and the such... Man!. did we feel "special"

But we still had a good time...kinda warm though...

**slowhike** · 08-06-2007, 12:44

Originally Posted by 4D's

We (my son, two of his friends and I) were in a commercial campground in Myrtle Beach this weekend with all four of us hanging. (State park messed up our reservations for primative area)
We did set up a small tent to change in and hold our "stuff".
We had many people "look" and look some more.. ask alot of questions and the such... Man!. did we feel "special"

But we still had a good time...kinda warm though...

i guess they let you hang from the trees w/ no problem. that's good to know.

**Coldspring** · 08-06-2007, 12:52

I only know of 5 people that actually backpack in my county of 45,000. Hiking, and especially backpacking, is pretty rare in my neck of the woods, even though we've got the local trails. Out of those 5, two of us are hammockers, and I think another has had a Hennessy for several years.