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    Anyone else get excited about hanging in the rain?

    I guess it goes to show what a gear nut I am, but I'm planning a hammocking/climbing trip to Alabama this weekend, and I am really excited that they are calling for thunderstorms. While I don't like the idea of having the weekend completely washed out, I am dying to put all of my rain gear to the test. I've got a never-used OES tarp that's gonna provide some serious rain coverage and a place to hang out during the deluge, and some other rain stuff that I want to get dialed in.

    Am I sick, or is this normal?

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    hehe me too! I have 3 pet-peeves when it comes to camping.

    Bad sleep.
    Bad bugs.
    Bad weather.

    Since I started hammock camping the first two are eliminated, but I have yet to 'test' the third. I started going out WHEN they were calling for rain and my friends have started to call me a good-luck/no-rain charm. I did get one evening where there was rain and I was blissfully dry throughout,(with the stock Hennesy small tarp).

    Now I am expecting a large hex-fly so I can go camping and not need it while I cook! =)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mustardman View Post
    I guess it goes to show what a gear nut I am, but I'm planning a hammocking/climbing trip to Alabama this weekend, and I am really excited that they are calling for thunderstorms. While I don't like the idea of having the weekend completely washed out, I am dying to put all of my rain gear to the test. I've got a never-used OES tarp that's gonna provide some serious rain coverage and a place to hang out during the deluge, and some other rain stuff that I want to get dialed in.

    Am I sick, or is this normal?
    UM, yes, you are sick.
    And this is normal.

    I LOVE T-Storms, but I never (well nearly so) actually hear them.
    When you have a backpack on, no matter where you are, you’re home.
    PAIN is INEVITABLE. MISERY is OPTIONAL.

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    you wish for rain will be satisfied soon enough...after that, you'll just quit caring if it going to rain and go when you want to go.
    IMO, that is when your kit is starting to get right!
    "Every day is a new day to a better future"
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    "What if I told you that you couldn't have anymore of anything... No more friends, no more money, no more anything, until you first got happy with what you have?"~ Mike Dooley
    "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." ~ Socrates

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    It sounds normal to me. My favorite time to be in the woods is during the rain.
    “I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.” - Cormac McCarthy

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    The last two groups I have hosted on the river have had rain the entire trip. As they wrestle with the ground cloths, tents, working to stay dry, they look at my hammock and ask "How do you stay so dry?" To which I gleefully reply, "I am off the ground. I never have to get on my hands and knees and crawl into a wet nylon cave called a tent." I did have one customer request a hammock for the next trip, but most think they will have sore backs, not be able to sleep soundly, etc. etc. When it rains though, hammocking looks particularly attractive.

    I went through a 60 mph wind, continuous lightning and rain in my Claytor JH, in fact it blew three of our canoes over that were upside down, and one was blown into the river from the bank. Fortunately it was tied off. My tarp flexed some, my hammock swayed a bit with the Jack Pines I was tied off on, and I rolled over and slept. I did not even hear the canoes flipped over and they were about 30 ft. from me.

    When it is storming and raining and I am off the ground and dry, I always sleep well because at the time I know there is no place I would rather be.
    “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
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    It used to be a race home from work when a good thunderstorm would roll through; meant it was Tarp Testing Time.
    Now I get antsy when I hear about a blizzard coming my way.
    Trust nobody!

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    Nothing feels as good as waking through the night in a hammock in a rain. I wake to that familiar pitter-patter on my tarp. I grin, stick my tounge out at the weather and think ( NA NA NA NA) you can't get me. Then just roll over and go back to sleep. In the morning I make my oatmeal and coffee for the hammock, without even getting out of my bag. I can sit in my hammock and sip my coffee and watch the storm. DRY COMFY and CONTENT. Now thats camping.

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    I really love hammocking in the rain!

    I think we're normal!

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    I like hammocking in the rain. I find it quite relaxing hearing the rain hit my tarp. I sometimes even fall asleep for a nap during the day when I am in my hammock when it's raining.
    Chris

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