Can anyone recommend a wide enough and long enough pad that will keep me warm? Thanks!
Can anyone recommend a wide enough and long enough pad that will keep me warm? Thanks!
Its called an underquilt, and its the best thing to keep you warm in a hammock. Pads are, at best, a stop gap between colder than my ex-wife's heart and a warm night's sleep in a hammock.
The most expensive part of this endeavor is the money you spend on marginal or stop gap equipment before you finally break down and get something that actually works.
You live in Alabama. You really don't need an expensive down quilt. But there's plenty here to choose from that will suit the temperatures you can generally expect in your neck of the woods:
http://www.arrowhead-equipment.com/s...ic_Quilts.html
I'm not sure where the place is, but some vendor sells foam by the foot. I have a Gossamer Gear pad that is extra wide, but only comes to the middle of my calves. Somebody else will probably be able to tell you where. Thermarest also sells long pads
Check out Big Agnes to get some ideas. How long and how wide covers a lot of options.
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So many pads out there to choose from. When I used pads I went with my Thermarest Prolite and often doubled up with a CCF pad in below freezing weather. Best to wrangle it all with something like an ENO Hotspot http://www.rei.com/product/830279/en...ping-pad-wings Then your shoulders and arms are insulated too.Originally Posted by Jpua25
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Here's a picture of a closed cell foam pad I built last September as I was starting to use my double layer Blackbird. I got the material for the pad from a couple vendors mentioned on the Warbonnet site for under insulation.
Hybrid under pad pic1.jpg
The picture shows the final pad I created after trying out a couple of mods. I used a couple layers of 1/4" CCF and used it into the mid 20's degrees. The grey material is an SPE that I got from REI.
The top portion of the pad is wider than a standard pad so that it sort of wraps around the shoulders. Dimensions on the top are about 40" wide. It weighs about 2 lbs.
It's kind of cumbersome but I rolled it into a blanket and went on an overnighter in the Blue Ridge mountains in October.
I've since moved to an underquilt, which I like a lot,but the CCF pad helped me get started and if I'm car camping I'd use it again. I found it really comfortable. Hope this helps.
Im in alabama also so I dont usually have to deal with super cold temps. I do have a diy down underquilt but if its freezing or so I double my wool blanket and put it between my double layers of the hammock. its very warm and it breathes. When I tried a ccf pad it turned my hammock into a puddle. I know that the wool blanket is too heavy for a lot folks but I dont do ultra light on anything anyway.
where is a good place to camp in a hammock in Alabama? i am close to Birmingham. I was thinking Oak Mountain for my first hang in a few weeks.
I don't do a whole lot of child weather hangs, but I find that a PLUQ is warm enough for me for temps into the 40s. One day I'll get a proper underquilt.
This video shows how to make one.
http://youtu.be/vsWOelVXuoI
Try the Sipsey Wilderness up I-65 about an hour from you. Check out the the "hangout, trip planning" subforum under the southeast section to see if anyone is doing a hang. Usually a couple of trips each year by groups going there.
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