I just did my first hike with the Clark Jungle Hammock NA in Monangahela National Forest in West Virginia. The weather up there can get dicey, so when I saw the forecast was for 50 degree nights, I planned for at least a 45 degree night which is exactly what I got. I used the under pockets for storage and an Exped Mulitmat for extra insulation:
http://www.exped.com/exped/web/exped...8?opendocument
I laid an exped downmat 7 on top of that and was in heaven. The multimat is large enough to cover the entire bottom area of the hammock and the sides where your sleeping bag makes contact with the less insulated side walls. It still felt pretty toasty when i removed the downmat and just used the multimat for the second night. I figure it would also make a decent ground cloth if I had to set it up as ground tent. When I wasn't using in the hammock, it made a nice group dining floor for me and my buddies. It doesn't compress into as small of a package as I like, but it weighs next to nothing.
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