Anyone spending Thanksgiving in a Hammock?

**slowhike** · 11-18-2006, 10:40

i`m planning to go out for an overnighter (sat) & mabey fri night too if i go some where pretty close. haven`t decided where yet. ...tim

**slowhike** · 11-21-2006, 17:30

Originally Posted by Hog On Ice

I plan on hanging up near Mt. Rogers over Tgiving - looking like highs 45 lows 30 or so

HOI, & Ewker... do you mind if i look for you sat afternoon? ...tim

**Aramis** · 11-21-2006, 18:03

Originally Posted by Arkwater

Looks like the weather will be perfect, highs in the 50s and lows in the 20s.

Perfect? Do you consider the temperature of your bath to be 'perfect' when you can break the layer of ice on it without using an axe?

Imo 'perfect' is 25 degrees Celsius.

**Ewker** · 11-21-2006, 18:54

Originally Posted by slowhike

HOI, & Ewker... do you mind if i look for you sat afternoon? ...tim

sure no problem. I think we will be at Rhodo Gap Sat night

HOI will have his hammock and I will be in a tarptent. Yeah, yeah I know a tent. But when you don't have gear for a hammock you use what you have.

**slowhike** · 11-21-2006, 20:57

Originally Posted by Ewker

sure no problem. I think we will be at Rhodo Gap Sat night

HOI will have his hammock and I will be in a tarptent. Yeah, yeah I know a tent. But when you don't have gear for a hammock you use what you have.

yep... if it gets like it did one october, i may wish i was in a tent...naaah<g>.
it got down to 14f by morn, with a howing wind. one guy that was w/ us swears that the wind actualy got up under his one man tent & picked him (at least partialy) up off the ground.

do you have an idea were you may try to find shelter in rodo gap? i`m familiar w/ how the AT parallels the va. highlands horse trail from the water hole at rodo gap over past mt rogers. seems like that`s one wind swept hillside... even in the evergreens.
just to put a thought in your head in case you have trouble finding a place out of the wind.... i reppeled off the cliff near the big trail junction once, & it seems like there was a fairly open wooded area near the bottom of the cliff.
of course then you`d have to worry about some yeng yang throughing ropcks off the cliff<G>. ...tim

**Ewker** · 11-21-2006, 22:32

Originally Posted by slowhike

yep... if it gets like it did one october, i may wish i was in a tent...naaah<g>.
it got down to 14f by morn, with a howing wind. one guy that was w/ us swears that the wind actualy got up under his one man tent & picked him (at least partialy) up off the ground.

do you have an idea were you may try to find shelter in rodo gap? i`m familiar w/ how the AT parallels the va. highlands horse trail from the water hole at rodo gap over past mt rogers. seems like that`s one wind swept hillside... even in the evergreens.
just to put a thought in your head in case you have trouble finding a place out of the wind.... i reppeled off the cliff near the big trail junction once, & it seems like there was a fairly open wooded area near the bottom of the cliff.
of course then you`d have to worry about some yeng yang throughing ropcks off the cliff<G>. ...tim

I have no idea where we will be camping. All I know is that it will be in the wooded area way before you get to Thomas Knob Shelter. I am not sure how many of us there will be...maybe 10 folks. People are coming from Tn,Va, NJ or Pa and maybe Ky for this get together

**slowhike** · 11-22-2006, 07:10

Originally Posted by Ewker

I have no idea where we will be camping. All I know is that it will be in the wooded area way before you get to Thomas Knob Shelter. I am not sure how many of us there will be...maybe 10 folks. People are coming from Tn,Va, NJ or Pa and maybe Ky for this get together

if nothing happens to change my plans, i`ll just look for you.

**jlb2012** · 11-22-2006, 08:46

where I'll camp Saturday mostly depends on how the wind is - if it looks like the wind will be bad I'll be down below the spring in the woods and rhodo down and to the left - otherwise (cold but relatively calm winds) I'll be in one of the campsites along the AT - possibly near the traditional Blueberry Massacree campsite - I'm fairly easy to recognize - look for the worlds largest MacCat tarp

**Ewker** · 11-22-2006, 09:07

Hey HOI, I will want to check out your setup. I have never really paid any attention to it before other than knowing it is a hammock...lol

**jlb2012** · 11-22-2006, 11:55

no problem Ewker - Thursday night I'll be just "north" of Wise in the FS area just across the creek and up the bank and you have as good an idea as I do where we will be Friday night near Scales (have not noticed the planned campsite before but it should be easy to find - the question is whether there are any good hangs there).

Note however that I use a rather stock Hennessy with pads (CCF on top of a DAM) - no underquilts or straps other than tree huggers. The only thing that is really special is the MacCat tarp - I wanted a longer ridge line length than the MacCat Deluxe so Brian came up with the MacCat Titan for me - 160 inch ridge line.