how many years has everyone hammocked

**Mule** · 12-08-2007, 00:49

Two months, two weeks, three days, 14 hours and 22 minutes, but who is counting? Mule

**Peter_pan** · 12-08-2007, 08:54

Not counting some passing experiances with the M1965 jungle hammock in the military, serious hammocking started in 2002.... One super cold, wind blown December night.... sure put Smee and I on the quest of warmth and comfort.

Pan

**Ashman** · 12-08-2007, 10:58

Haven't done it yet, but most likely will starting with my next camping/hiking trip!

**Just Jeff** · 12-08-2007, 11:44

I hammocked in high school and college in those mesh hammocks from the military exchanges. First freezing night was ~1993 on Mt Yonah in Georgia. It rained and I didn't have a tarp...the water was dripping off my butt! Slept in normal sleeping bag in the snowy Colorado Mtns...don't know how I didn't freeze b/c I didn't know all the stuff I know now. (Maybe I was too drunk to notice...

) That was all before I really started hammocking seriously.

Then it was '02 or '03 when I got a Hennessy and started reading TrailForums and WB. Got my JRB set shortly after that, then started rolling my own...

**neo** · 12-08-2007, 11:44

Originally Posted by skskinner

Two months, two weeks, three days, 14 hours and 22 minutes, but who is counting? Mule

you forgot to list how many secounds also lol

neo

**neo** · 12-08-2007, 11:45

Originally Posted by Ashman

Haven't done it yet, but most likely will starting with my next camping/hiking trip!

way to go,try it and you will love it

neo

**rigidpsycho** · 12-08-2007, 14:13

been doing it in the backyard for less than a year. have had the hammock for two, now ready to hit the woods

**Youngblood** · 12-08-2007, 19:03

Thanks for the welcome and kind words folks.

FanaticFringer, looks like we live fairly close to each other. Maybe we can hang out sometime?

**Manach** · 12-08-2007, 19:37

Almost exactly two months ago I was camping with my wife, who had already decided hammocking was the way to go. She had gotten a Byer a few months earlier but this was her first time with it in the woods. She convinced me to have a lie down. It was too small, probably hung with too much sag, and I loved it. That night she slept like a baby in her hammock and I tried to sleep on my therm-a-rest. That will have been the last night I slept on the ground.

I got my Clark soon after, and my Claytor (which I prefer) a couple weeks ago. We built a stand and I've been sleeping most nights in my Claytor. The bed seems so inferior now.

**lyleb** · 12-09-2007, 08:39

Just got my Speer last summer, first real test was a week spent hanging in Minnesota. Loved it and have used it since. Have done some short weekend backpacks with it, looking forward to a more extended trip with it next spring. (alas, not a thru...) :-(