First Hang!

[jloden]

I really was planning on waiting to the MAHHA hang to give this hammock thing a shot, but I spend waaaaaay too much time on this forum and couldn't wait Bought myself a Grand Trunk Nano 7 as a starter hammock and gave it a whirl today.

Thanks very much to Shug and GrizzlyAdams for their youtube videos, they really helped me understand the basics! Since the Nano doesn't come with suspension I ordered some JRB tri-glides to give those a try - but Amazon got the Nano to me so fast the JRB order hadn't even shipped yet! For now I'm using a set of Amazonas Microropes which were all I could find locally.

The temp dropped down to 65 tonight while I was out there and I got chilly fast, but again thanks to the forum I knew to be prepared for that. I used a windshield reflector from wal-mart underneath me and a GoBlanket on top. Everything worked great, except the reflector was about 6" too short so the top of my shoulders/back got chilled (time to get the truck-sized one).

All in all a definite success, and I enjoyed it - will definitely give it some more hang time tomorrow. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for all the advice and knowledge shared on this forum. I was able to make informed decisions on everything from hammock choice to suspension to quilts just by reading through the wealth of info and experiences here!

-Jay

[Shug]

A terrific time was had by you!!!!
Easy to tell by that huge grin on your mug......
Shug

[JayS]

Welcome aboard! I'm just up I-78 about 25 minutes and my in-laws live at exit 24 (Oldwick) so I'm out there a good bit. PM me if you'd like to try out an underquilt or a tarp or even another type of hammock. Or anything else hammock-related that I might have.

[jloden]

Yep Shug, definitely fun - I'd be out there trying out a night in the hammock if I could get away with it (wife already thinks I'm nuts)! Plus, I live in a condo so the neighbors might call the cops on the weird guy hanging from a couple of landscaping trees in the middle of the night

JayS, I'll shoot you a PM, thanks!

[perrito]

Way to go Jersey!

[Mountainfitter]

Nice! How do you like the size of the Nano 7?

[jloden]

The Nano seems a tad on the small side, but admittedly I don't have anything to compare it to yet

I'm still working on learning how to rig it comfortably but I think it's definitely workable.

[eflat7]

It only gets better! Congrats!