I know it doesn't start until tomorrow, but this way we wont have to worry about having multiple trip reports pop up.
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I know it doesn't start until tomorrow, but this way we wont have to worry about having multiple trip reports pop up.
(Mods: I am doing this so you don't have to combine multiple posts later.) :D
Is this an example of what you call, premature hammockation?
Nice idea, Iafte.
It's cold, there is snow on the ground and more coming Friday night. :scared:
http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/...24e18d3ceb.jpg
I had a great time.
It was great seeing you again, Syb. Has anyone told you that you bear a striking resemblance to Lennay Kekua, Manti Te'o's girlfriend?Quote:
Originally Posted by Syb
First night, the "little" fire.
http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/...4b9ac5f351.jpg
I wanted to thank you all for having this hang, I met most of you and I had a very nice time. Since this was my first hang and I didn't have all the cold weather gear I needed for a comfy sleep, I went home Saturday Afternoon.
I will be back next year better prepared. Thank you all again for the wonderful time.
2013 NJ Winter Hang Photos
The first night was great. According to the Weather Channel the over night low for Friday/Saturday 8 degrees. I had a bit of frost in the hammock sock, but was warm all night. The temp inside the Frost Cave was 28.3 degrees. My thermometer is +3 so reality was 25.3. I've posted some pictures to Flikr, lets see if I've linked them correctly
NJ Winter Hang 2013
Looks like fun....
I hope to be able to make the whole weekend next year.
Thanks for a great weekend folks!
Picture link as follows:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1162419...eat=directlink
Looks like a good time and an excellent turnout! Thanks for sharing...
Another successful NJ Winter Hang! Thanks for organizing this, Iafte. We had a little snow on the ground, and the low of 3 degrees was 19 degrees lower than last year.
I coached my son's basketball game and didn't get there till 6 pm last night, just in time for the excellent chow. I had to setup in the dark, but young Dan (Tinker), son of Blackfoot, was there to help me out. The ground was frozen solid, but NJRedneck loaned me a hammer so I could get the tarp staked out. Interestingly, the more robust my stakes (larger diameter), the more they bent when I hammered them. The thin, flimsy cheapo stakes that came with the Guide Gear 12x12 I bought last year were the only ones that didn't bend when being hammered into the frozen tundra.
After getting my new HG Winter Palace all staked out, somebody pointed out that the pull outs were on the inside - no way I was gonna tear it down. So I had to listen to folks telling me my tarp was inside out the rest of the evening - small price to pay to get my frozen fingers back in their gloves.
My Accurite thermometer hanging inside my tarp registered 5 degrees. SilentOrpheus hung his outside his tarp and registered 3 degrees. It was a cold night, and I have a new record low! My new 0 degree HG Incubator did a great job, but my 20* Burrow barely cut the grade. Looks like I need to add another top quilt to the arsenal for weather like this.
Looking forward to next year!
NJWinterHang was wonderful ! ! !
Snow, for a few hours. Moonlight, two nights. Blue skies and sunny days.
Good hanging friends.
The right collection of gear to keep warm in single digit weather.
( Sat night- Sunday morning 3* to 0* )
Thank you All !
( On the radio on the way home : The Beatles )
Happy Trails.
G
Tinkr and I had a great time, it was fun to catch up with old friends and make plenty of new ones. Thanks to the organizers and everyone for making us feel welcome. Thanks to the cooks, the feast on Saturday was amazing! Cold temps and warm fires - can't wait for next year!
I had a blast. It was great meeting all of you. Here's a few shots I took...
A few asked to watch me take the stove apart, but I ended up staying a while. So I took some pictures of me taking it down for you who were interested.
Thanks again to everyone who put this together. Had a great time meeting everyone looking forward to seeing everyone in the future.
Iafte, thank you for all the effort you put in planning this wonderful event. It was great meeting you and everyone else. The food was over the top (seafood chowder, sliders, rum balls and ALL the venison) I won't be eating for the next week to make up for my calorie intake...but it was worth it!
To the crew that puts this together each year.
Great job, once again it was a fabulous weekend.
Oh wow, fallkniven you have got to show me how you made that wonderful little stove! I love it!!
That is incredible. I want one :boggle:Quote:
Originally Posted by fallkniven
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Originally Posted by Deadphans
That's not my creation. The stove is from Titanium Goat. It's the 12" cylinder stove.Quote:
Originally Posted by prismatic81
Although there are instructions to make your own right here.
Had a wonderful time as expected.
The food was the same as last year FANTASTIC, thank you very much to the organizers of the NJ hang, as always you fellas did a great job.
Thank you Iafte for the Bacon Bomb, you rock bro!!!!!!!!
Thank you SBD (and hubby) for the pizza, it's that level of kindness and awesomeness that makes coming to a hang so enjoyable, well aside from the hammocks......
It was great to see old friends, and make some new ones. One of the greatest things is how much each and every hang grows larger every year it was great to see so many new faces, and I apologize if I did not shake hands and introduce myself to you all (not that you missed anything special).
Lookin forward to next year!!!!!!!
saturday afternoon i heard somebody just showed up and i ran over to see if it was SilverSurfer, but alas it was just Dutch :( we busted on him as we quietly checked out his hammock hardware :cool:
thanks Dutch, for the dutchware for the raffle:)
What a great time this hang was. Thanks to all that put this hang together. To Iafte for feeding me some Beef Bacon Bomb it was fantastic. Everything I ate Saturday night was fantastically awesomely amazingly mouthwatering. To Bug Hunter hope you had a great Birthday on Friday it was great celebrating with you. To all the new faces and new friends I meet and made hoping to see you all soon, to all the old friends I saw it was great seeing all of you and looking forward to hanging with you again soon. The highlight for me was sleeping in on Saturday till about noon it was a much needed nights rest in a hammock. Cant wait till next years hang.
Here are my Pictures I took.
I want to thank everyone who made it out. We had a great group this year. Was it only me or did the weekend fly by?
I'll try to a full report later tonight after I get everything packed away.
Well, bummed big time I couldn't make this one this year, but medical and other considerations jumped up. I actually spotted the two trees I hung from last year in the pics! The food looked just as amazing, and it looks like the hang is growing!
Thanks for posting all the pics, folks!
~ Sky
back 'atcha CB!! always great to see you! much love to you, Julie and the girls! so many wonderful friends! i was thrilled and relieved that i was toasty at 2.3 degrees! camped with Oh-No, Ferret, Early Bird, G-Hawk, and new cool friend Bill (oldnintheway). my kind husband Jim delivered pizza and my long-time friend Wendy visited too! they said backpackers seem to be the most peaceful, pleasant and nicest folks!!! Jim said the person *in the van* (Lisa EarlyBird) was so sweet! Paul (Oh-No) stored water in a cooler with hand-warmers. otherwise everything froze (oh my wipes!!) boiling water with a iso-pro stove and filling a Nalgene for a hot water bottle for bedtime was critical! Galena, i need a frost bib!! me n' Ferret both double-bagged it with two under-quilts and that was the ticket. we had clear, crisp, still full-moon nights and i have been so much more uncomfortable at warmer temps with dampness and wind. could we have had better weather?!? campfire with my friends. MML setting the style baseline. much gourmet food! a moonlit walk with Paul and G was just the thing before bedtime. you guys rock. waking up with your breath turning to a frost storm in your hammock! pizza in the morning on a poplar slab! cooking fresh eggs with a Trangia mini-23. shout-outs to friends i know - Jerzybearz! Maple, Kayak Karl, Stalker, MML, LRR, Dylan, Iafte, his Bro Bill,Quote:
Originally Posted by Cranky Bear
the friends who could not be here (Syb, Pro-V, TWO-TENTS! HC!, Knotty!, GLP) and to all the new friends i met will see again in the spring. how better my life is that i have met you.
some pics:
http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps0e498904.jpg
Thanks to all for setting up the great hang. I had a great time as usual at any HF event, but I did have trouble sleeping. I just kept worrying if my hammock was hanging at the right "hangle"
teehee.
oh Ferret <groan>... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ferret
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by ferret
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh Duuuuuuuuutch...................
SBD,
The photobucket link only takes me to a single pic, I wanted to look at your pic's am I doing something wrong? My computer likes to play strange games with me.
Same here .Quote:
Originally Posted by Cranky Bear
Finally got a chance to hop on here and and give a little update.
First I'd like to thank Iafte and all those involved with the preparations and planning for this event. You guys did a great job and I know that everyone had a fantastic time.
The weather couldn't have been more perfect. We had a light snow on Friday evening which cleared up before midnight and turned into beautiful clear skies with a nearly full moon. Temperature got down to 5F according to my digital thermometer. I had a nice set of trees to hang my new WBBB 1.7 DL and Superfly from.
Saturday was just awesome. Beautiful clear weather all day with a bit of a breeze, got to peek around at everyone's setups and talk knives with some other folk. The food that night was amazing. I think Joe's rum-balls were the highlight for me :) Saturday night was colder at 3F, but I remembered my hot water bottle and slept even warmer than the night before.
I had to bug out quickly on Sunday morning as I had a 3 1/2 hour drive home and things to do, but I had a blast. Hopefully I'll be able to see you all again next year!
I didn't get too many pictures, but what I did get are here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1087019...eat=directlink
thanks so much for letting me know. try this and thank you for your patience!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cranky Bear
http://s489.beta.photobucket.com/use...rton%20SF%20NJ
please let me know if it works. these photo sharing sites can be very difficult!
i had such a nice time and really want to share the pics.
Works now! Nice pics, thanks for sharing.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetbabyd
What a great time!
Learned a lot, was able to check my gear at some low temps, met some cool folks and the food, well, what can I say? What feast. Inspires me to prepare something special instead of just showing up with a couple store bought pies.
Let's see, pulled into the campsite, wasn't out of my car 30 seconds and was welcomed by Mark. Setup camp near the JerzeBears and off to the group area to meet folks. Immediately greeted by hosts and a half dozen people. Struck up conversations with some interesting people and then the campfire. A lot was learned hanging around the campfire, the second night I mostly listened, so many great stories...and a few lessons.
What happens by the campfire at the Hang, stays by the campfire at the Hang. If you missed the stories, well, you'll just have to show up next year.
Fire jumping is an art, not a science.
Don't show up late for the chowder, there won't be any.
Yellow jackets will attack even after midnight, even in the cold, then they hop in a Subaru and head deep into the woods.
Jeremiah has the job and the permit I want.
Wake up Aurora, it's dawn!
Thru Hike the AT and you may see god, but he'll probably be naked except for the hat.
Can't heat the water bottle if the alcohol stove is frozen shut.
Ice takes a lot longer to melt in the fire than I would have ever guessed.
Gotta check out the TiGoat
WHAT A RAFFLE, the gifts just kept on coming. My alcohol stove rocks!
Next year, more firewood, bigger fires!
Thx for sharing pics all.
Thx for all the raffle stuff.
Thx for all the food.
Thx for putting on the event.
Thx for showing up, good to meetchya!
thanks Black Foot! Souderton... hey i grew up in Ottsville. Mom and Dad still live there :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Black Foot
Sorry, jumped right back into work when I got home, so haven't had the time to post up a report until now.
Once again, what an awesome time! It seems like so long ago that I first made the drive down to my first hang ever, and met all the fine folk that keep coming back to the Jersey Winter Hang. And like others have said, it's awesome to see that every year we get new faces - and of course the old folks that keep coming back for more.
This year was a cold one - I clocked a low of 3˚ on my thermometer both nights. Saturday I'm not sure it ever broke 30˚ during the day - the whole weekend was cold enough that your waterbottle froze shortly after filling. We only lost a few folks to the weather - a couple people bailed in the middle of the night because it was too cold for their gear. Sad to lose them, but better that than have them be miserable or get into a bad situation.
Chatting with old friends was great - but so was meeting some of the new stock of adventurous folk willing to brave the cold. One of the new attendees, camp43, was set up near me. He spent a chilly first night with his new UQ. Dylan and I helped him get it dialed in the next morning - must have done the trick, because he tried it out Saturday afternoon and ended up sleeping for 3+ hours! Many others lent a hand making sure everyone had a good time and stayed warm - the overall camaraderie every year at this hang is just one of many reasons I keep coming back.
The food Saturday was awesome, as usual. The raffle was great as well, with goodies from Dutch, and stuff donated from Grand Trunk (used the GT Travel Pillow I won Saturday night and it was mighty comfy). We should remember to hit up their facebook page and thank them for the cool toys! The rest of the night was spent hanging by the fire or wandering around, and when I turned in at 2, I slept nice and warm.
Sunday was the usual. Pack up, say goodbye as one by one everyone headed out. Eventually I too had to head back to the real world. Now we just have another 350-something days to wait till next year.
From start to finish, it was another great hang. Thanks to Bruce, Bill, and Steve for organizing, everyone else for attending, and to G.L.P. for not showing. :laugh: (Just kidding, we missed you and your puffy, Vahn)
See you all next year. :thumbup:
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Originally Posted by sweetbabyd
Works wonderfully now, thanks, they look great!
Great pictures, SBD. Thanks for sharing!
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Originally Posted by sweetbabyd
Small world isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetbabyd
i did not attend this event these are some great pictures.
i love the ti stove cool idea. i also was wondering about the small camper in one of sweetbabyd's pics? whose is that ? have any more information?
I was also wondering about the wooden box that held a stove. do you have any plans for making one of those?
PM me your email and I will send you the plans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverpalm2x
Mike
:)wow that little wood burning stove looksQuote:
Originally Posted by fallkniven
how warm did it keep things:cool:neo
When it was fully going, I had to strip off many layers. Keep it going for bit before bed, and it'll warm your hammock and quilts. Waking up, just stick my arm out to relight and heat my water, and wait till it heats back up to get out and get dressed. Makes a world of difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by neo