there are small battery operated fans you can attach to your ridge line that may help with the heat, and keeping some of the bugs away.
I, personally, just deal with it. I'm hiking Harpers Ferry to Front Royal next Fri-Sun, temps in the upper 90's to low 70's. Going to video "the roller coaster" section of the AT.
Takes more than oppressive heat or deep snow to slow me down. I'll carry a little extra water and hike a bit easier and have a wonderful time, as always.
Amen, the weather up here sucks.Originally Posted by ScottD
I have a little fan that I also attach to my ridgeline for those especially hot or humid VA nights... but this is just bordering on ridiculous. I'm sitting at home with the AC at 72 expensive electric bill be damned. I can't wait for Sept.
Come Washington. We are having a cold summer.
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. ~G.M. Trevelyan
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright
We always hear reports about those brave souls who dare to hang in sub zero weather, but not many heroic reports come back about those who are bearing the triple digit heat... we ought to come up with some hot weather hammock gear: Evaporative cooling quilts, breeze catcher tarps, and the like.
"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities." - Mark Twain
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” - John Burroughs
I'd be temped to haul a small window a/c unit and generator before I went out in triple digits, haha.
haha +1 for than one
Here is a thread that discusses alot about hammock fans.
http://www.hammockforums.net/forum/s...ead.php?t=1537
and below are some pictures of the one I use! Ths fan uses a D-cell battery but the AA battery pack has metal ends and will go right in where the d-cell goes. when car camping I use d-cell because they last longer and when backpacking I use AA to save weight. I have slept with no insulation, just the bugnet and my fan clipped to my ridgeline. It was 101 during the day and still 89 degrees at midnight! pretty comfortable with the fan blowing right on my face!
Are you trying to tell us you are still sane? Come on, we weren't born yesterday!!I used this method as much as possible when I was hiking on the East Coast during the hot months. Saved my sanity more than once.
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It is a relative world. I feel pretty sane when I watch the news.Are you trying to tell us you are still sane? Come on, we weren't born yesterday!!
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