I wonder if we sometimes give people the wrong impression when we say "tent? I don't need no tent- I've got me a hammock!"
It must be camping season (or at least vacation season) in the Northern hemisphere right now, as I have seen several posts about sleeping more than one person in a hammock. People must go tent->hammock->just like a two man tent! Also amusing to see people use 'tent' to refer to the hammock.
As is often the response for those threads, fine for a nap, not so much for all night. And we suggest things like hanging from the same trees:
(I believe risk was one of the first with his 'double hammocking' http://www.imrisk.com/hammock/ultradoublehammock.htm)
Or hanging close by. Even 'bunk beds'.
I suppose we sometimes forget that hammocking borrowed from the tarping craze! It's a tarping shelter system first of all. What we are really doing is getting our bed off the ground. What we are doing, almost, is replacing the cot, the camp bed, the roll mat (although the roll mat can be handy for that pesky Cold Butt Syndrome (CBS)!) Oh- and the ground sheet!
Thoughts?
-TH
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