My son and I slept in our hammocks in the woods last night.
We both have HHs, and were loving them last night, with all the mosquitoes in the ADKs right now...I recently treated both hammocks with a permethrin spray, and think that it improved the efficacy of the bug netting by keeping the beasties off...
We both woke up to a loud snorting/huffing noise close to us in the woods around 11:30...along with some branch snapping and tree pushing...my assumption is black bear, as we've had lots roaming our woods lately (raiding the composter and trying to get at the garbage...
It got down to around 40 degrees last night, but we both slept fine...Iused the mss patrol bag, and my son slept in the heavier-weight black bag...we both rocked wooly socks, and Ben slept in a balaclava (I had a fleece skullcap in reserve, but didn't end up needing it)...
We set up the hammocks in a tight "V" form, off of 3 trees, with the heads facing in opposite directions, so that we could see each other and talk easily last night and this morning...
It was all in all a wonderful hang, and we hung out talking in our hammocks this morning for an hour before heading home for breakfast...
{sorry for the cruddy pics, I used my ipod}
Jamie - nfa
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