I really was planning on waiting to the MAHHA hang to give this hammock thing a shot, but I spend waaaaaay too much time on this forum and couldn't wait Bought myself a Grand Trunk Nano 7 as a starter hammock and gave it a whirl today.
Thanks very much to Shug and GrizzlyAdams for their youtube videos, they really helped me understand the basics! Since the Nano doesn't come with suspension I ordered some JRB tri-glides to give those a try - but Amazon got the Nano to me so fast the JRB order hadn't even shipped yet! For now I'm using a set of Amazonas Microropes which were all I could find locally.
The temp dropped down to 65 tonight while I was out there and I got chilly fast, but again thanks to the forum I knew to be prepared for that. I used a windshield reflector from wal-mart underneath me and a GoBlanket on top. Everything worked great, except the reflector was about 6" too short so the top of my shoulders/back got chilled (time to get the truck-sized one).
All in all a definite success, and I enjoyed it - will definitely give it some more hang time tomorrow. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for all the advice and knowledge shared on this forum. I was able to make informed decisions on everything from hammock choice to suspension to quilts just by reading through the wealth of info and experiences here!
-Jay
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