Never again…

[southmark]

Took my two dogs on a hike in the Sipsey Wilderness this weekend. This being Dixie's first time I took my two-man tent because she was not used to sleeping all night under my hammock like Lucy and I didn't want all of the night sounds keeping her awake barking and in turn keeping me awake. Well after a 10 mile hike Saturday she and Lucy slept from about 6:30 until 6:30 but I did not sleep a wink. I forgot just how awful it is to sleep in a tent on the ground but I was reminded why about six years ago I converted to a hammock. I will not make that mistake again, never.

[canoebie]

Kinda like that Joni Mitchell lyric, "You don't know what ya got till it's gone."

I have on different occasions considered a tent, then some common sense strikes me up the side of the head.

[BillyBob58]

Just a little reinforcement of a previously learned truth.

Curious: what type of pad were you sleeping on?

[southmark]

BillyBob, it was a 1/2" ccd with an older air mattress together. It was a shorty air mat from years ago with individual tubes inflated separately. I forgot who made it now. I used it many miles on the AT 30 years ago. I have a neo-air but did not take it for fear that the new young dog might puncture it. Still I'm just too old for that nonsense.

[MidTNHANGER]

Amen. Stay off the ground

[dragon360]

Nothing like being reminded to make it even better!

[nothermark]

Never say never, it has a way of getting back at you! ;-)

The last time we slept on the ground we ended up buying our first Motor Home.