View Poll Results: Which is your sleeping possition / direction?

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  • Straight

    10 12.66%
  • Diagonal (Left to Right)

    46 58.23%
  • Diagonal (Right to Left)

    15 18.99%
  • Other

    8 10.13%
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    Senior Member elcolombianito's Avatar
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    Question Which is your direction / position in the hammock?

    Just curious. From all the reading Ive been doing it appears that the diagonal (Left to Right, or Right to Left) position i sleep in is not very usual ammongst the HF members. So, just to get harder facts, Which is your possition?
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    Head to the left, feet to the right when laying in the hammock.
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    Head to the left, feet to the right, no matter what hammock. Occasionally I'll try the reverse but usually end up back the way I started.

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    I'm still playing with length of sag. sometimes it feels good left to right, other times right to left. I hung last night testing out a new idea(new for me any how) and the sag was perfect to sleep right down the middle with no shoulder squeeze, or banana syndrome. hopefully I can duplicate this setup when I get some cord and add a ridgeline
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    i love sleeping left to right on my blackbird and right to left on my eno... no reason why i guess!
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    Vertical.

    Seriously, it depends on which hammock I am in. There is no "right or left" possible in a BMB, and the Clark is usually down the middle as well. The BB is head to the left, feet to the right; and all the others are whichever way I feel like today.

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    Since I have a HH, I'm pretty locked into left-to-right, but honestly I'd prefer to lie the other way.
    --Scott <><

    "I fish because I love to; because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful... because, in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing things they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion; because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed or impressed by power, but respond only to quietude and humility and endless patience...." --Robert Traver

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    Well, in such short time I think i can correctly say my first impression was definetly wrong, specially since the rising of the Blackbird. Sorry for not having in mind the bridge hammocks or the bb. Now that i think about it, from where the heck did i get that most HF member slept straight? Any how, thanks for colaborating with the poll.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bonsaihiker View Post
    Since I have a HH, I'm pretty locked into left-to-right, but honestly I'd prefer to lie the other way.
    Me too. but most hammocks I have I end up L to R.

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    elcolombianito,
    I didn't notice your "signature" earlier. It's a great "Shugism"! Still makes me laugh.
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