Sharing your single person hammock with your GF / WIFE

**m_huber** · 02-16-2013, 21:45

Apropos of my last post, there is nothing new under the sun:
https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...ead.php?t=8900

**Gresh** · 02-18-2013, 18:50

I believe the technical term Cannibal used in the other thread was "dynamic stress testing".

Originally Posted by Cannibal

I'm going to go ahead and assume that is code for 'dynamic stress testing', which itself is code for...other things.

These outdoor hammocks are really not built for such activities; they're built to be lightweight. That said, my girlfriend and I hike together regularly and she spent a couple of months on the AT with me. We sleep in the same hammock frequently on the trail. All total, we have broken one ring (literally exploded in the middle of the night) and snapped some cordage on a UL suspension (wasn't Amsteel). That's just from sleeping, ie. static weight. While we have slept in my Blackbird 1.7 double once or twice, it always makes me nervous. Too much to go wrong. The netting could get loaded in just the right way from someone laying slightly out of position and tear away from the body. That's my biggest concern. So, we almost always sleep in her TrekLight double; simple and much less to fail.

**Cannibal** · 02-19-2013, 10:32

It isn't for everybody...to be sure.

As much as Genuine Draft and I enjoy sleeping together in our hammocks, we don't do it nightly. On average, I'd say 3 (maybe 4) nights a week we sleep in the same hammock. Often, one of us will get up and go to the other hammock late in the early morning. It is a marvelous way to fall asleep with someone you love, but not always the best to awake with the elbow or knee of the one you love lodged into some random place on your body. Still, for 90% of the night it really is a nice thing. As DemostiX said, the proper hammock is the key part. Our bedroom hammocks are fairly massive so they lend themselves to sleeping two.

As to the other stuff (DST), it really isn't that complicated. If you need a book to tell you how to get it done, you probably aren't ready for that step anyway. It is very much an instinctual thing that has been going on for hundreds of years. It ain't difficult, but fun to practice!