How do you store/access your backpack while hanging?

[jcksparow]

I hang mine from a tree with The Big Carl Pack Hanger and if expecting rain cover it with a garbage bag.

Ditto. Made my own slightly elongated version of the Big Carl with some Lash-It and a dutch hook. Hasn't failed me yet! Makes setting up and breaking down camp much easier. For rain protection, pull a garbage bag over it and tuck the open end between the line and the tree.

[MikekiM]

I like to use my hammock chair/gear loft. It keeps everything off the ground and next to me so I can get to it while still laying in the hammock.
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It's such a handy piece of gear and I just love it. No more cleaning my ground mat or worrying what got into my pack at night.

I've tried to use my AHE Bushman Hammock Chair as a gear loft, but it ain't working for me. That's one of the reasons I bought the hammock chair. I use an integrated bug net on the Blackbird so hanging the gear hammock behind me makes no sense since I can't reach it and don't want it laying up against me.. Doesn't that bother you?

I keep mine on a modified Big Carl Pack Hanger I made with Zing-it and a fleaz. It sits on the head-end tree with the straps toward the tree and a silnylon pack cover on it just in case. Since I'm sleeping by that point and my bear bag is hung, there really isn't anything left in the bag except a few essentials.

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I carry an eight foot length of reflective cord in my hip belt for backup guy line if I need it. Fixed eye in one end and a CL prussik'd in the middle. That's my pack hanger. I usually just wrap the tree and thread the end through the eye, then make a MSH thread through the pack's carry loop and hook the prussik around the toggle. Plastic liner bag if weather is foul.

I just clip my backpack onto the hammock ridgeline with a carabiner. Since I hang head right, feet left, I can clip it "feet right" and it doesn't in any way interefere with my sleep. I don't even put a pack cover on it since it's safely secured beneath the tarp.

I always think I will do this.. but first thing I do when I've made my tree selection is hang the backpack at the head end tree.. never bother to relocate it to the suspension..