Suspending your backpack from your hammock?

[Polkster13]

Thanks for all of the replies and especially the pictures. This has given me a couple of options that I want to try out and see which works best for me.

[5th]

I've always just put my pack in a garbage bag with a twist tie to close, then put a second garbage bag down over the top, and leaned it against a tree. It's primitive, but it works for me.

[QiWiz]

I usually use a mini biner to hook my pack by it's pull loop onto my ridgeline at head or foot end of hammock. If the weather is such that this will result in a wet pack, I may move it to a more sheltered area just off to one side of me on the ground.

[E.A.Y.]

Now I have a Dutch utility hook from which I hang my pack from my suspension, but in the past I've just used a stick through the haul loop to hold it to my hammock's suspension. Stick stick through haul loop, lay stick across suspension line, tuck another section of haul loop around stick. Admire.

Here's pic of my Tilley hat hanging through one of the pullouts on my tarp.

Sort of the same thing.

Just let the weight of whatever you're hanging up hold the stick in place.

[mark996]

I usually strap mine to a tree that I hang the hammock from. If it's going to rain, I'll put my rain gear over the pack and use a trash bag to go over the top for extra protection against the rain. I've weathered some pretty big rain storms without getting my pack wet this way.

[winstone]

I have a friend who hung his pack from the hammock suspension straps. He left some salmon pouches in the pack, thinking they were sealed and wouldn't present any problem. He woke up in the middle of the night because his hammock was bouncing up and down. There was a critter trying to get a free meal. He removed the food, moved the pack to a tree, and went back to sleep

[Seeker]

Depending largely on the weather, I either hang mine from the suspension system at the head end of my hammock, clip it up under the tarp, lay it on a few large branches underneath, or take it inside with me. I normally use either a GoLite Gust or a ULA Conduit, so when I'm in bed, there's not much to put in the pack anyway. I normally keep a light duty caribiner and a roughly 10" piece of paracord tied in a loop clipped to the lift handle on my pack.

[southmark]

I hang mine at the foot end from the suspension with a mini biner. I then fasten the hip belt up around the hammock and over the ridge line just like fastening on a person. No swaying, no hanging down.