On the PCT

[DevonHowton]

Thanks Chop. I bought a Dream Hammock (I love it) and I'm having it sent to me at Kennedy Meadows. I'm currently on the trail at Big Bear Lake. I hate my tent and air mattress. I'm going to have my hammock sent sooner but don't know what the next three-four hundred miles holds for hammock camping.
I read your journal a while ago and I'm short on time these days but do you think I could get by with just the hammock or should I carry my air mattress too. I cannot sleep on the ground, period.
I'm doing about 15 miles a day on average. When I get into camp at night I'm purely exhausted. I have flat feet and they hurt so hiking an extra couple of miles to a suitable hang spot is out of the question.
I hope I can find the time to reread your journal again to see where you camped and couldn't camp.
Thanks!

Luke Sierrawalker, in 2012, posted some spots where you can hammock camp on his postholer.com blog...

The following is pulled from his post.

I tried to recall good hammock camping areas in southern SoCal, hoping this might help future hammock hikers (in a northbound order, with Halfmile's mileage):

• 16 Hauser Canyon
• 20 Lake Morena Campground
• 24-27 Cottonwood Valley and Boulder Oak Campground
• 37-38 Long Canyon
• 40-49 Mount Laguna area
• 53 Pioneer Mail Picnic Area
• 77 Scissors Crossing
• 101 Barrel Spring
• 108-109 Canada Verde Canyon
• 111-113 Agua Calliente Creek Canyon
• 115-116 Agua Calliente Creek Canyon
• 120 Lost Valley Spring
• 126 some trees right next to trail
• 128.5 some trees
• 140 Nance Canyon
• 152 trees near hwy 74 and Paradise Valley Cafe
• 168-194 San Jacinto Mountains, on and off
• 219 Whitewater Canyon at the Preserve
• 226-308 Mission Creek Canyon pretty much to Deep Creek Hot Springs, on and off
• 314.5 Deep Creek Canyon
• 317 some trees
• 329 Cleghorn Picnic Area
• 335.5 some trees in Little Horsethief Canyon
• 342 Cajon Pass
• 362 northwards, with a few extended treeless areas around Agua Dulce, Antelope Valley and Tehachapi Pass to Kennedy Meadows.

This list is not complete and most likely contains some errors, but might give you an idea.

Resupply stops where I camped in the hammock as well were the following (southbound order):

• Elk Lake Resort (stealth camp)
• The Callahan's Lodge (in their gazebo, very comfy!)
• Burney Falls Campground
• Drakesbad (stealth camp)
• Chester (stealth camp)
• Sierra City (in the backyard of the great Red Moose Inn)
• South Lake Tahoe (at the Campground by the Lake)
• Mammoth Lakes (at the campground in town)
• Kennedy Meadows (at Tom's place)
• The Andersons (in the manzanita forest in their backyard)
• The Saufley's (between two beams)
• Idyllwild (at the campground in town)

[Karla "with a k"]

My friend is on the PCT right now (mile 200). Wish he knew this info.