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Hello,

it has been a long time since I have posted something.
I will have a weekend in Mid March for a nice Friday afternoon to Sunday evening hiking and hanging trip starting from Berkeley / SF...

I hang my bridge hammock with 20° instead of 30° for the suspension lines.

The setup I showed the picture of above was tested with more than 850 lbs, evenly spread over the three hammocks.

You really want to make sure that the anchors are solid in the ground.
We had...

It might be cheaper to set up a set of YATS stands. Not so much "hardware", mostly ropes.
https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=23622

It worked well for our camp.

I'm ordering from Kanirope.de / kanirope.com simply as they are drive by pickup for me.

The 100m spool of 2mm Dynema comes at 52.36 EUR which is ok and more than enough fun for some more hammocks...

If you don't mind the drive:

Sykes Hot springs on a off season weekend can be nice without big crowds.
Park at Big Sur station and have a nice hike in, plenty of trees to hang from, even close to...

I want to say Thank you! for sending the UQ for my Ridgerunner in Time to take it home for Christmas.

I'll be sleeping warm and cozy on my next winter trip.

If you want to go cheap and don't mind the weight penalty
Long carpenter screws or nails from your local DIY store or your parents or grandparents house.
Heavy (for free if you are lucky) but rock...

We used the metric version of 2x4 and had a maximum load of 400kg / 880lbs and it was rock solid.

Works wonderful

Hello,

I just came back from our nationwide scout camp. I prepared a YATS as there were no trees on site and it was awesome!
I'll have to write a German HowTo for all the folks that want to build...

Even if it is a little bit late for your already whipped hammock:

I spliced a locked brummel fix eye loop in the amsteel line first and whipped it afterwards. Works like a charm and takes 2...

I would like to thank you all for the great time and warm welcome.
Nighthauk thank you for all the work you did before and especially for the extremely amazing food. Your cake made it into my new...

Ok, here, according to the list in the planning documents
name:Christoph HF-name:Columbus hammocks:1 snooring:depends persons in group:1 arrival:Friday evening food: Swiss...

I have to fly over to work in the States for 14 days just to find out that NEHHA is just 1 hour away from where I have to work and planned to stay over the weekend.

May I come along?

tarptent has actually a quite nice video how you can seam seal your tarp.

http://www.tarptent.com/ttvideos.html

the seam sealing video on the bottom of the page

Works as as biner replacement. And it works well and is even lighter than your average biner