I'm guessing this has been asked before. And I did try searching - but all terms/phrases I tried came up with a bazillion hits and none of the thread titles were obvious.
My question - is there a trick to getting in these things?
I revamped my setup recently (not that my old set up was any easier) and was in the field (Boundary Waters) a week ago. Everything was great - once in the hammock I mean. Weather sucked, I stayed dry, warm, ventilated, comfortable, all that stuff. But getting in the thing, and into my sleeping bag, was a really clumsy affair for me.
I get into the hammock itself just fine. It's then getting into the bag. No matter what I tried it's all twisted, bunched up under my ***, etc. Takes me a few aggravating minutes of shifting around, sitting up, laying back down, sitting up again, etc. before I get the bag in the right position.
Am I missing something? Does it just take practice? Or is that just the nature of hammock sleeping?
I thought about using the bag just as a quilt, but both of my bags don't unzip all the way. Zipper stops about 12 inches from the bottom edge on the one side.
FYI - have a 1.0 DL WBBB with a therma rest style pad for insulation that I use between the hammock layers. I'm taller-ish (6'2") and use "long" bags - if that matters at all.
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