Moisture in hammock during the night.

[Shewie]

I've had a few damp nights, the worst being when it's thick fog, there's just nothing you can do about drifting fog, no matter how many doors and weathershields you've got.

My quilts don't really get damp as my body heat seems to deal with that, but I have noticed moisture on the outside fabric of the hammock/underquilt in damp weather. I've made a sil cover for my underquilt which acts as a kind of sacrificial layer, much easier to air out.

[old4hats]

As kids a lot of us boys spent every Friday night we could down by the creek, and every Saturday morning we woke up to our bedding being pretty wet. No mystery, it was dew settling on us just like it settles on the grass. My tarp is often very wet in the morning, but my hammock is dry, and the one time I set up without the tarp, yep, wet in the morning.

[nyhiker50]

Nocturnal emissions?

How cold was it at night? It could have been condensation from your body perspiring during the night. When you perspire the water vapour will move from inside to outside of your insulation layers, then hit the cold night air and condense.

I don't think so. I'm too old for that teenage stuff. I had a thermometer on the outside of my pack. It looked like the temp was 55. The official temp was 46, so I think I was in a warm spot. Right about that, but the whole hammock and everything else was damp too. So it must have been that the nylon seems to attract the moisture when the fabric gets cold. Could I be right?

[nyhiker50]

As kids a lot of us boys spent every Friday night we could down by the creek, and every Saturday morning we woke up to our bedding being pretty wet. No mystery, it was dew settling on us just like it settles on the grass. My tarp is often very wet in the morning, but my hammock is dry, and the one time I set up without the tarp, yep, wet in the morning.

I think this may sound about right. I did not have a tarp up and the night was gorgeous. I even looked at the moon shining through the trees and the stars.

[desmobob]

Could it have been the material or the weather?

If the temperature falls below the dew point, then everything not covered up gets wet from the falling dew. That's why you need a tarp most all the time. A pretty heavy dew can fall during humid weather.

Take it easy,
desmobob

[satta-hanga]

[QUOTE=jimmay;1079731]Nocturnal emissions?

Eeeeeeeewwww!

[olddog]

With 2 months in Maine in the hammock every night but 2. I only had 2 nights that the hammock felt damp and cold. One was a fog that rolled in up the Penobscot Bay and the bugnet was like a trap with droplets forming in the mesh. The other was aftera fine misty rain for most of the day but after climbing in the hammock my body heat seemed to dry the hammock out. One of the nights that I didn't stay in the hammock was following the most awesome lightening storm I had ever witnessed in Maine. Heavy rain and lightening then nothing but 76 degrees, 100% humidity and no wind. Hammock was dry until I started sweating. The entire 2 months was spent under a Tadpole with one side down and the other in porch mode.