well that is what I may have been doing wrong is not laying zipper up I had it on the side the first night second night i put it on outside hammock first and then got in that worked good but when you get out to pea twice a night this get's old real quick.
thinking about useing a gatorade bottle. that way once im in im in for the night.
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it"
Cavediver2
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I for whatever reason am a three pee a nite kinda guy and the zipper to the top with the head lite hanging on the ridge line so I can see for a quick "re-arrange"works the best I have found. Somehow I just can't bring myself to using the gator aid bottle. Mabe if the temp was a lot lower than we normaly get here in the winter it would be a lot more apealing.
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Green Therapy
But think of the consequences of a mishap!!!!
Ok so I must be the odd one here. I have a HH explorer D. With my DIY underquilt and a cheap 20 degree bag I sleep just fine down to at least 40 (it hasn't gotten colder to try it out lower.) My bag is a left zip mummy bag, that is a huge improvement over the first bag I tried which was a right zip and a rectangular one. Too much bag, zipper on the wrong side. I place it in the hammock in a diagonal position and then sit down on it, pivot my feet in place, squirm a bit and then pull and tug the sides a bit and zip up. It took me 4 or 5 nights towork out the moving around thing, but a bag works fine for me. It wasn't intuitive the first time but experience helps. Even getting out to relieve myself is coming quicker with practice.
Roads go ever ever on, under cloud and under star; Yet feet that wandering have gone, turn at last to home afar. Bilbo Baggins
Well after the first couple of nights hanging and reading how everyone gets into sleeping bag and hammock. So I desided on useing FreeTheWeasle's way and it worked out great. It's been in the low 40's and high 30's here all week so it has been great testing these things like bag how to get into it, peaing in a gatoraid bottle while in hammock and not makeing a mess. I take hammock down everyday and put into stuff sack. And put it back up before each night just to get use to it all. Last night was the 4th night out I am starting to think that my neihbors think im nut's or going through a divorce and I am not married but they have been seeing me allot outside hanging in eighter of my hammocks but anyhow last night I started before dark putting it all together and comming from my DIVING BACKGROUND I teach my students to do simple task with there eyes closed well that is what I did last night from start to finish with eyes closed from tying the knots on the fly to hanging of the hammock and that included getting it out of stuff sac, makeing sure that the fly was what felt good and strainght and tight putting sleeping bag in and and lastly getting in hammock. It all worked then I opened my eyes and it looked great. again I slept in just my underarmer underwear and that was it I was toasty in bag still have to open it up from time to time to keep from getting to hot. I am useing my pillow off my bed in the house and not the one that I use for backpacking but other than that everything would be as if I was back packing. I am so glad that ( FREETHEWEASLE ) said how he get's into his bag it made this so much easyer. Now I wonder what big change's I will have to make when it drops down in the low 30's to 20's I would say that I might have to add long underwear to my pack but other than that I should be fine, cant wait to find out though.
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it"
Cavediver2
CLARK HAMMOCK HOW TOO VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2pPSXdHTg
http://www.hammockforums.net/gallery...&imageuser=826
http://www.junglehammock.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Clark-Hammocks
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