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    A Noob from the UK

    Hello everyone,

    I am a 17 year old boy, that live in the heart of a busy city in the UK. I have been camping nearly all my life, because fortunately as a young boy my mum dragged me along to many long summer camping trips, that have left me with a passion for woods and a love for nature. I fist started to get into survival and bushcraft camping about a year ago now and since then I have been dedicated to mater every skill I need in the good out doors. Around about nine months ago for my last birthday my mum got me an army gore-tex style bivi bag and DD tarp. After using that set up for a while I was convinced by a mate to look up light wight camping hammock and I have been hooked ever since. Recently I was doing some research on pod system set ups and I stumbled upon shug. Over the last couple weeks I have been watching some of his videos and finding out a lot about what makes our lovely hammocks that much more comfortable and convenient. Now I'm a member of this forum, I hope I will be able to grow my knowledge and get my questions answers by the people that know.

    I'll definitely be asking some questions at some point soon so I look forward to chatting to you all again then.

    Below is a link to DD hammocks which from what I have gather is not that known outside of the uk (pleas correct me if I am wrong). I just wanted people to maybe give me there thoughts on the sort of equipment I use.

    ................... http://www.ddhammocks.com/products ......................

    The Yanman

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    Senior Member dragon360's Avatar
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    Hey The Yanman - hello and Welcome to the Forums from Canada! Seems many of us have stumbled across Shug on our way here and are better for it!
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    Senior Member raiffnuke's Avatar
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    Welcome to HF from Mass.

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    Yep Shug must be sore with all the people stumbling across him. Anyway welcome.
    Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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    Senior Member DivaB's Avatar
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    Welcome; from Ohio; United States. Glad you found Shug, our most popular recruiting officer

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    Welcome from the West coast of the USA. There's a DD page here for you to speak with others about them. The DDs that I've seen online look similar to the Tree to Tree Trailgear Switchback that I have.

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    Welcome to the forums.
    I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."


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    hello and welcome from louisiana

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    Welcome aboard. We've all learned much from Professor Shug.
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    Hello and Welcome to the Forums from Carencro,La.
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