Smelly Hammock

[grey721]

Do cooking smells and/or campfire smells stick to the hammock or tarp? I want to keep mine as fresh as I can for as long as I can.

Washing Tips?

[default]

they can, but hopefully your hammock isnt that close to the fire!!! i worry about errant sparks.

but theres ways to wash both, someone covered the tarp washing a while back, and depending on the hammock type you can just toss it into a bucket and wash it (i have with my eno). just use some kind of hunting detergent so it doesnt become a bug magnet.

[OutandBack]

Good Idea to hang the hammock 30 or more feet from the fire.
As REV says, sparks and nylon don't mix. Then there's the bear thing with smells.

I have only washed my hammock 1 time and I soaked it in a bucket of cool water with 1 cap of woolite for
~20 minutes then hung it up in the back yard and sprayed it down with the hose and left hanging
over nite to dry. Worked great.

[default]

yup. your hammock WILL get smelly from your body anyway, and on hot days its guaranteed, lol.

[dejoha]

I hand wash using Dr. Bronner's Soap. Love it.

[hutzelbein]

I have just washed a TTTM, a WBBB and a WB Traveler. Simply popped them in the washing machine (front loader) and used the synthetics cycle on 30°. I had the WBBB in a net to prevent the bug net ripping. None of the hammocks were damaged. All looked like new after air drying.

[grey721]

Ok, thanks! I guess I'm just over-worried about me avoiding my hammock like a smokey jacket.

[koaloha05]

Do cooking smells and/or campfire smells stick to the hammock or tarp? I want to keep mine as fresh as I can for as long as I can.

Washing Tips?

Bear bait! Bit bear paranoid. Don't cook under the tarp I sleep under. If possible I prefer to cook the supper a km or two from where I will probably set up for the night.

Would just stick the tarp or hammock in the washing machine using the gentle cycle with temp set at cool.