Reaching out to Texas Hammock Hangers

**Optinaut** · 05-21-2019, 06:30

Is there a listserv for Texas Hammock Hangers? I don’t have a FB account, but would like to know about upcoming hangouts in Texas.

Regards,
Optinaut

**OutandBack** · 05-21-2019, 11:58

Originally Posted by Optinaut

Is there a listserv for Texas Hammock Hangers? I don’t have a FB account, but would like to know about upcoming hangouts in Texas.

Regards,
Optinaut

I think the THH FB owners have their own hammock website have you searched for that? I assume they keep them both uptodate.
I don't visit either these days so I don't know for sure.

**Optinaut** · 05-21-2019, 12:24

Originally Posted by OutandBack

I think the THH FB owners have their own hammock website have you searched for that? I assume they keep them both uptodate.
I don't visit either these days so I don't know for sure.

Thank you, OutandBack. I didn’t realize THH FB owners had their own website. After seeing mention of the group on this sub-forum, I did a quick and lazy google search and only noticed the FB page. As of now, it looks like their non-FB late is no longer hosted and they only maintain the FB page.

Hopefully I will stumble across some Texas Hangouts on this forum. As someone new to hammocks, I thought it would be a great opportunity to learn from more experience Hangers at some of the hangouts. To date, I’ve just been doing solo and family hangs.

Regards,
Shane

**UncleMJM** · 05-30-2019, 20:43

Originally Posted by Optinaut

... As someone new to hammocks, I thought it would be a great opportunity to learn from more experience Hangers at some of the hangouts. To date, I’ve just been doing solo and family hangs.

Regards,
Shane

One more comment on this note, Shane, I'll be taking my family out to Fairfield Lake State Park the weekend after next, June 7-9, to teach my Son in law and his son the ropes. My wife and son will also be along so we'll have about 6 hammock set ups to play with.

If that's a time you and your family or you solo feel like going out, I'd be glad to give a little show and tell and help in any way that I can. Feel free to PM me or replying here is cool too.

Mike

**Karla "with a k"** · 05-21-2019, 14:16

There was another hammock listserv which had a lot of Texas hangers. www.******************* However, the site has been down for a couple of days now and I don't know why.

**SilvrSurfr** · 05-21-2019, 15:07

Originally Posted by Karla "with a k"

There was another hammock listserv which had a lot of Texas hangers. www.******************* However, the site has been down for a couple of days now and I don't know why.

It was so popular it crashed!

**joe_guilbeau** · 05-21-2019, 16:32

Originally Posted by Optinaut

Is there a listserv for Texas Hammock Hangers? I don’t have a FB account, but would like to know about upcoming hangouts in Texas.

Regards,
Optinaut

You do not need a Facebook Account to view

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Texa...group_activity

**OutandBack** · 05-21-2019, 16:57

Originally Posted by joe_guilbeau

You do not need a Facebook Account to view

You need a FB account to join. If you don't join you basicly see the banner and nothing else.

**joe_guilbeau** · 05-22-2019, 01:28

Originally Posted by OutandBack

You need a FB account to join. If you don't join you see the banner and nothing else.

Then I suppose that you could join Facebook, set all parameters to "Private" and never post on your page. Configuring the view privileges to only family and friends with no "family and friends" might get it done.

I remember party-lines for telephone service, not much privacy there.

**Optinaut** · 05-22-2019, 04:18

Originally Posted by joe_guilbeau

Then I suppose that you could join Facebook, set all parameters to "Private" and never post on your page. Configuring the view privileges to only family and friends with no "family and friends" might get it done.

I remember party-lines for telephone service, not much privacy there.

I tried to go that route to join my astronomy club’s FB group (HAS for any Houston-area sky watchers) as that was where they pushed out event notices. I made a lot of effort to keep private, but FB managed to pull my contacts from my mobile device and broadcast to my friends and family that I was on the platform, but “private”...which opened a hole can of worms

I’ve since opted to avoid it entirely and receive club announcements via our listserv. But thank you for the suggestion, Joe. I see you’re just a little up the road from me - San Antonio. Howdy from Houston.