Hi Moel, This sounds like a fun trip. I think the type of forest you camp in is really going to determine how well this works.
Do you know the area you will be camping in? Does it have large old growth trees?
Having a couple setup options might help. I sometimes have trouble finding just to perfect trees where I hang.
Hi O&B
We're heading to Sweden for this trip. There are trees aplenty. Not too many really fat ones but with so many to choose from we should find something suitable.
The area looks like this. (not my video)
"Live like you will die tomorrow, but learn like you will live forever." Gandhi
I have done this a bunch of times with my wife and with my daughter. Just used stoutish sticks as spreaders, no issues. You do feel if they really flopp but have always slept just fine.
All i did was carve a slight indent in the wood and larkshead some light line around it the tie off to the suspension. Any pressure on the wood is compression so no worries. Worst that can happen is it breaks and you bump together.
I just tried out this method using just one hiking pole at the head end of the two hammocks. It was a great success and surprising how short you can go with the pole.
I only extended the fatter sections of the pole and inserted the point and handle into each of the continuous loops on the hammocks.
I'll definitely use this method when I go hiking with my wife.
"Live like you will die tomorrow, but learn like you will live forever." Gandhi
Did over-under with 2 trees on the trail. my tarp, so i got the top
"Tenting is equivalent to a bum crawling into a cardboard box, hammocking is an art" KK
the guys tarp got shredded the night before.
"Tenting is equivalent to a bum crawling into a cardboard box, hammocking is an art" KK
So would you do it that way if you didn't have to? I'm planning a week long trip with my wife and it will be her first time sleeping in a hammock so I'm looking for a practical method that she will like. (Unbelievably she still likes sleeping near me, even after all these years!)
"Live like you will die tomorrow, but learn like you will live forever." Gandhi
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