Originally Posted by
Owl
I'm going to disagree. The HHSS underpad and UC are not that tough to get back into the original bishop bag it ships in. There's a "trick" to it, but once you learn it, you'll find it's relatively simple to do.
1. Remove the underpad from the hammock.
2. Turn the bishop bag inside out, leaving one end fully open, and the other closed.
3. Fold the underpad in half length-wise, and then again width-wise.
4. Roll the underpad up, with the strings being gathered into the roll.
5. Take the bishop bag, and place one end of the rolled pad against the closed end of the bishop bag.
6. Roll the bishop bag down over the rolled up pad, turning it rightside-out as you go.
7. Disconnect the UC from the hammock (if you want to store it in the bishop bag, rather than just store it on the hammock).
8. Ball up the UC, and stuff it into the open end of the bishop bag, on the end of the underpad.
9. Cinch closed the open end.
Voila! Works for me every time.
The HHSS is a system that's worked very well for me so far. My youngest son and I have both used this system down to about 18F, with some pretty strong gusty winds. Neither of us have actually used the overcover yet, although we both have it. We've NOT used a topquilt with it yet, but used it with sleeping bags in the hammock, and with the space blanket on top of the pad as recommended by Hennessy.
I do have an OWL UQ that I've bought, but not yet had a chance to test it out in really cold weather. I plan on testing it out this fall with a TQ that I'm about to place on order today.
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