Quote Originally Posted by Buffalo Skipper View Post
Not having yet camped in a hammock, I find this statement, well, puzzling. I live on the northern Gulf Coast (though I rarely camp near/by the gulf). There are nights here when I have woken up in the morning and everything was covered with a heavy dew. Even the underside of tarps and everything within their footprint. Granted, that was unusually heavy, but a decent dew covers things most mornings here, vitually year round, except during the less common "dry" days during the winter.

For me, to sleep without a tarp would be to wake up wet. Is my area so out of the ordinary that way? Prehaps it is our year round high humidity.
I've experienced the same thing in Charleston, SC. And in Monterey, CA, but it's dense fog there so you can see it coming.

There's no single piece of gear that excels in all conditions.