Hi HF
been lurking for a few days.... maybe a week. This place is great.
My experience with hammock is:
One cold night with a Grand Trunk hammock.
I used a Grand Trunk ____. One of the cheaper ones from REI, probably bought it from one of their sales. At the time, I had no clue people used these for actual camping/hiking.
I still didn't know until I was browsing REIs website for 1 person tents/shelters... I saw they had a Hennessey Hammock that looked a lot more "professional" than my Grand Trunk. That's when I realized from my other hobby that there must be a forum full of enthusiasts with specialty vendors offering things that the mainstream never would. Quick google and here I am.
Just to embarass myself a little with my hammock experience:
*used paracord as my "tree huggers"... sorry tree. Didn't know any better.(obviously will never do that again). Best case, I would have used tie downs with the metal parts intact.
*no pad or underquilt, I didn't think it was necessary... I had a 20 degree bag- woke up really cold throughout the night.
*slept right down the middle, didn't know about the whole sleep in a diagonal thing.
*widow makers- ummmm, don't even remember checking... to my defense, I'm sure I gave it a quick look.
BUT even tho I was cold, and woke up inches from the ground... I slept better than I ever did in my bivy sack.
I guess that's all for now.... I've learned a lot already, and will probably learn plenty more. Need my WBBB/Superflyto arrive to visually "get" everything that I've read so far.
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