My wife and I went up to Turner Falls Park for a quick over nighter since it's close by. Next week we're planning on heading to Dinosaur Valley for a night stay, but may end up going to Ray Roberts or another place, we've got I think 4 trips planned this month just quick get aways and then in July we'll do our 3 night trip to Eagle Rock Loop. Snapped a few pics of our trip. If you're around Oklahoma, and haven't ever been to Turner Falls, it's a real nice place. The park staff were all curious about our hammocks. They'd seen cotton hammocks, even sell them there, but hadn't ever seen the "elaborate" setup like ours, which I told them wasn't elaborate at all compared to some. Overall, the sleep was great. I woke up a few times, once a coon had knocked over the trash can nearby, another time when a deer was about 5 feet from my hammock, sneezed and startled the crap outta me, then slowly walked away. Stars were gorgeous, no tarp used since the weather was great. I did learn, even when it's 60 degrees, a blanket certainly won't cut it. Had CBS pretty bad, but my z-lite pad worked out great.
Our first setup, we had the hammocks on one tree, we've done this in the backyard a few times and liked it. We ended up moving though to another, more secluded camp site and glad we did.
Now, my wife said this was likely just a bull snake, but after getting home and taking a better look at the pictures and comparing them, I'm partial to believe it may be a rattler with a button instead of a full rattler just yet. Anyone have any input? We did keep our distance pretty good just in case.
Pretty sweet looking twisted tree.
View from our camping area.
View from the top of the falls.
Our second set up at the new site. Was nice and secluded.
Morning after. Didn't notice much sag or stretch through the night with my 297 pounds in it, I think everything held up quite nicely.
Breaking camp. Since this was our first trip out with the hammocks, I decided to haul my gear in my pack just to see how everything packed up and weight wise. With extras, liberally packing, the pack felt tons better than carrying a tent around with the tarp. The hammock and all packs down so nice it's pretty crazy.
Not sure if she was the one that spooked me last night, but she sure was pretty out eating breakfast.
Lower falls. We tubed down this section since the main pools were closed due to water flow (sucker was moving). Got pretty beat up on the rocks, but was fun overall.
Awesome Turner Falls. I'd been up here about 5 times, and hadn't seen the falls moving so fully.
And lastly, as we're leaving, finally got a pic of the road runner. We'd seen him quite a few times, but never able to snap a pic. He was pretty still here, I think he was more curious.
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