Now that's funny. I remember him saying something to that effect.
Set mine up last weekend at a campout for the local outdoors group. Think I got a few people thinking about it.
Now that's funny. I remember him saying something to that effect.
Set mine up last weekend at a campout for the local outdoors group. Think I got a few people thinking about it.
Is that too much to ask? Girls with frikkin' lasers on their heads?
The hanger formly known as "hammock engineer".
"Groundlings"... I like 'dat me!
I sold my HH backpacker to one of my neighbors after almost 2 years of coaxing. His wife liked it so much that he got another for her.
On a recent canoe trip everyone in their group got wet, except them. He said, "everyone was laughing at us, until they were soaked!" He thinks he may have converted a few of them.
Well, at least 2 of my neighbors don't look at me funny anymore.
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." Gen. George S. Patton
Last year I became friends with a WVU student who was gearing up to hike the AT. He was looking for a tent and I had a BA Seedhouse 1 I offered to let him try. (But really had other evil intentions.) He took it out for the weekend but he was too tall for it. I then asked him if he had ever tried a hammock. He took my HH, JRB tarp, and No Sniv out with him for a long hike in the Shennies with his dad. He took it down into the 20's and said he was warm, but thought the fiddle factor was a little too much for him. He thought he might get one some day and was thinking of a Hennessy. I suggested the Blackbird (even though at that time I had only read about it here.)
He started his hike in March and just emailed me that he now owns a Blackbird and an OES tarp. I'm so proud . . . He's 200 miles from Harpers Ferry and we may meet up for some hiking if I can get away. I didn't totally turn him, but I think I helped. Can't wait to hear the story about what finally converted him. My guess is comfort, shelter snorers, and all those AT trees.
Exercise, eat right, die anyway -- Country Roads bumper sticker
Fall seven times, standup eight. -- Japanese Proverb
Great story.
I ended up with an extra claytor and a homemade hammock that we lend to friends who accompany us on overnights. Everyone who has tried them loves them.
But everytime I suggest someone try a hammock on other local and national backpacking forums I frequent, there is complete silence except from other hammock campers.
I think there are lots of backpackers who think that if you don't have dried fruit and a tent in your pack, then you aren't a backpacker.
LOL - now thats funny.Originally Posted by nogods
To know a hammock is to love a hammock.
It's sort of like yoga - you think it's strange until you try it, and then it's the best durn thing you ever did.
Days later, I'm still laughing about "another one leaves the dust".
Great, thanks. Now that tune is bouncing around in my head and it won't stop.
I've converted more than one person (groundling) who stood around in the rain while watching me sit comfortably under my tarp and have a leisurely breakfast, and then pack everything up while staying nice and dry. And that's before they even laid down in a hammock to discover how comfortable it was!
I recently went on a trip with my family, and they didn't know anything about the hammock until we met up at the river. They all laughed watching me set it up, but the wind gusted to 60mph, took their fly off, and soaked them with rain. They were miserable while I was dry.
My brother has me looking out for a decently priced used one now so that he can get into it too.
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