100% wool blankets are fairly easy to find with a google search. And at relatively low cost for the course wool military surplus blankets. You can also find higher quality 100% merino wool or lambs...
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100% wool blankets are fairly easy to find with a google search. And at relatively low cost for the course wool military surplus blankets. You can also find higher quality 100% merino wool or lambs...
Credit for using the pile hitch for a tent peg goes to Redoleary who posted it on youtube. Though I was familiar with the knot before it did not occur to me to use it beyond its original use as a...
Ewww!
Two points:
1) Racoons or other critters in the dark looking for a quick easy meal.
2) Be mindful where you left your shoes.
There's always the Depend products too. The advantage...
My list:
Sheet bend or preferred is the slipped sheet bend
Siberian hitch
Bowline
Taut line
Pile hitch
Clove hitch
Trucker's hitch
Alpine Butterfly
Prusik or I prefer the Klemheist
Thanks. Good advice.
I attended a motorcycle rally in Vt 20 years ago and after the rally I camped at a state camp ground in either Vt. or maybe N.H. and it was the first time I ever camped some...
Good to know that you have camped near bear marked trees and had no problem. There's a good chance the bear never came along that night.
Usually when I hang behind the cabin I am awakened in the...
Just curious. Did that 6 year old sleeping bag leak more feathers when it was new than it did in later years?
The reason I ask is that according to an article on hikelight it is normal for down...
This evening I am wondering if I should be feeling lucky.
Friday evening when I finished work it was closer to drive to the extended family's hunting cabin in Pocahontas County, WV than it was to...
WVS,
Good to see you got your troop out for physical activity. Far to much of my son's scout camping has been drive a truck and a trailer full of gear to the camp site and set up camp and not...
About a week ago I discovered two videos on youtube posted by swissgearlabs and titled Bushcraft Knots Tutorial. Centered on setting up a tarp.
They are quite good with very clear demonstrations...
Nice report, great pics. Thanks.
Yeah the bridge pic stood out for me too. For some reason it looked like a picture of a diorama. I guess the depth of field or the angle made it appear that way.
...
Crazy Creek Sandman travel pillow, horse shoe shaped, 4.9 oz.
I have been thinking I might try the Exped Air Pillow, L = 3.5 oz., M = 2.8 oz.
If on a long or steep hike and really wanting to...
Good to hear you never had any tree damage. The suspension cords are kind of a slick idea. Seems I read somewhere that the suspension cords are available separately. Maybe that is a hint that the...
Perhaps this info will be helpful. He describes the difference between sap and pitch. Then a long list, over 100, of stuff he tried and the results.
First link is the video, about 2 minutes,...
Thanks for the review and first demo. Being a bit shorter I would likely be a better fit for this hammock.
Do you think this system will permit the tarp to be pitched first ? And the hammock...
http://www.bearpawwd.com/fabrics_misc/fabrics_misc.html
Two weights: 1.1oz/sq yd and .75oz/sq yd. 54 inches wide. Sold by 1/2 yd lengths.
ABOK , Ashley Book of Knots, is regarded as a standard reference and an master work. However it is not a small book to be carried around. Animated Knots, as mentioned is a good web site but you can...
After looking about a little more I found a follow up news story about the previous incident. The young man who was injured in the tree fall survived but he suffered a spinal cord injury and is...
I remember this news story from Sept 2010. A college girl was killed and a young man was seriously injured when a tree fell on them while they were setting in a hammock.
...
Oh Geez, I just ordered the same book from Amazon along with Three Hundred Zeros;Lessons of the heart on the AT" and a couple of other books. The shipping email said they should deliver this...
In the 1800s when mainlanders were first teaching the Hawaiians how to read there were so few books that many of them only got to follow along with the teacher while looking at the books upside down....
Ok. I live at Turtle Creek or what used to be called Turtle Creek before Corridor G was built. Are you from this area? otoh - I suppose there maybe more than one place in WV called Turtle Creek.
Hello WVS,
My son attended the Scout Jamboree in 2010 with the WV Scout group they used he HH hammocks. First at the Capitol in May and then at Ft A.P. Hill. Did your son attend the Jamboree with...
Four-O thanks for the trail info.
I will have to look it up on the map and while doing that add in the trails WV recommended to the Boy Scouts on another thread.
From the pics it looks like...
I would think a good quality tarp would hold up to hail quite well. Acting like a trampoline and the hail just bouncing off.
I play around with folding kayaks, canoes. If you take a folding kayak...
thanks for the report, nice pics.
I will have to check the MNF trail map I picked up recently at the Cranberry visitor center to find the trails you were on.
I posted a similar question back in February where you can read some of the opinions posted in that thread. I think the basic conclusion was that it might help if, if, the limb happens to fall in a...
I think I saw her in Amsterdam last time I was there in May 2006. Hangin with Borat.
Shug,
Hope you know from experience that you had no side effects. Torodol and Ketorolac are apparently the same thing. The second time I had a kidney stone attack I decided to go and get it checked...
Never been sick out and about on the trail. But one thing does cause me some concern. I've had kidney stone attacks a few times over the years. Never had to go to the hospital for lithotripsy. I used...
I'm a fan of wool blankets too. I find they are more comfortable than synthetic blankets over a wider temperature range. So, I understand why you like wool. I have a couple of Fariblaut Mills merino...
Are the leather shoulder straps a plain leather strap or the padded leather straps like come on the Sparky bag? My son has a deluxe day pack with the plain leather straps that I don't care for.
...
I do something similar. But turned round the other way.
When I attach the tie out lines to my tarps I put the taught line hitch loop at the tarp end and attach the other end of the line to the...
Ahhh, board or bored ? :)
Sorry, couldn't resist following a recent experience. A couple of months ago my teenager son was gone but his cell phone was on the table and it beeped with a text msg...
FYI & FWIW
Here are 3 references recommending that the prusik / kelmheist loop line ought to be of smaller diameter than the main line onto which it is tied. That being said -- that caution is...
would this work?
http://www.sailrite.com/Shock-Cord-Hook-Self-Locking-Black-3-16-1-4
Thanks. Nicely presented instructional video. I'm a knot guy but never really thought about the pile hitch for camping. Just stuck on it being used the first way I saw it presented, as a way to tie...
Greenman, if by 'rubbing feeling' you mean the pressure on your leg from the tight fabric running lengthwise down the center of the hammock. I am from the school that believes this comes from...
http://stores.tttrailgear.com/-strse-18/No-Tangle-Guy-Line/Detail.bok
http://www.outdoorequipmentsupplier.com/camping_accessories.php
TAH, Welcome to HF.
I'm not far from you. Work in the Kanawha Valley most days. But really all over, Lewisburg, Marlinton, Huntington, Williamson and points in between or a bit outside that area....
Mike Welcome to HF.
Would you be the same Mike from the youtube stoneage bushcraft, aka wall2rockclimber channel?
If yes. I've enjoyed many of your yt videos.
Kids are great. They don't have to think out side of the box. They're not yet inside the box, they're already there out there, somewhere. :)
Nothing wrong with the tautline hitch in my view. I like knots, some of them have a good story behind them too.
They don't weight anything and the only way to lose one is to forget how to tie it....
Simps, Welcome to HF. Hammocks are kinda like shoes, there are many fine models but sometimes one model may fit you better than other models. I've no experience with the Clark, and only a little...
Glad to hear you and your family are safe. There are so many heart breaking stories. Saw this one today of a family that had found the body of their 18 year old daughter. A daughter just ready to...
I've never purchased a new HH I only have a used one. However, before I purchased the used HH I had emailed them and have emailed them since then and I have always gotten a reply. Sometimes within...
Next time just have Opie label it as whoopiecushions. :)
Thanks for the great pics.
A no. 1 to Portland on 19. :)
Hope you never encounter a modern day Shack.
A couple of years ago I was searching the internet for camping hammocks. I found a link to a company that was making/selling hammocks. On the web site they had a video of how to hang their hammock. ...
You may think you are anonymous on the internet but you are not. The web site you are visiting can identify your computer. Ever tried to go to a web site and it told you that you needed to upgrade...