How to go to ground with Ridgerunner as bivy?

[esotericist27]

Hey guys, so I've been preparing the past few months to go on a pretty major hike this coming Thursday--Ansel Adams Wilderness, just outside Yosemite via the John Muir Trail. I had planned on showing off my Ridgerunner and Cloudburst combo (which I still hope to do), but much of where my friends and I are going will be above treeline Therefore, there will be at least one or two nights where I'll have to go to ground. The thing is, I've gotten great at setting up the RR and Cloudburst...that is, when trees are abundant. However, I have been scouring photos of the area including Ediza Lake, and there appear to be very few trees at all. Now according to Warbonnet, the RR can be used as a bivy. Does anyone have any tips, advice, photos, suggestions on the best way to go about this? And how would one go about rigging the Cloudburst to accommodate this? I'd like to practice before looking like a putz in the wild. Thanks in advance!

[Shug]

Hey guys, so I've been preparing the past few months to go on a pretty major hike this coming Thursday--Ansel Adams Wilderness, just outside Yosemite via the John Muir Trail. I had planned on showing off my Ridgerunner and Cloudburst combo (which I still hope to do), but much of where my friends and I are going will be above treeline Therefore, there will be at least one or two nights where I'll have to go to ground. The thing is, I've gotten great at setting up the RR and Cloudburst...that is, when trees are abundant. However, I have been scouring photos of the area including Ediza Lake, and there appear to be very few trees at all. Now according to Warbonnet, the RR can be used as a bivy. Does anyone have any tips, advice, photos, suggestions on the best way to go about this? And how would one go about rigging the Cloudburst to accommodate this? I'd like to practice before looking like a putz in the wild. Thanks in advance!

Here is Ed Speer in a ground set-up. Not a bridge hammock but it would work the same I do think.
Shug

[Billiard Pete]

I know I'm a Noob, but I don't get the advantage of using your hammock like this. I mean, you could put a cloth down, maybe your uq down and then your top quilt on top. unless it is for the bug net, then I guess i understand, maybe.

[esotericist27]

Here is Ed Speer in a ground set-up. Not a bridge hammock but it would work the same I do think.
Shug

Thanks for that, Shug! That was what I had imagined all along. Btw, I am a big fan of your videos--"Whooo buddyyy!"

[esotericist27]

I know I'm a Noob, but I don't get the advantage of using your hammock like this. I mean, you could put a cloth down, maybe your uq down and then your top quilt on top. unless it is for the bug net, then I guess i understand, maybe.

Yeah, HammockPete--it doesn't seem like there is any particular advantage. I suppose it's just a possibility to improvise when going to ground. I just opted to buy a 1 person tent. Won't be as comfortable, but at least I'll have another option for when I know trees won't be around.

[priller]

Yeah, HammockPete--it doesn't seem like there is any particular advantage. I suppose it's just a possibility to improvise when going to ground. I just opted to buy a 1 person tent. Won't be as comfortable, but at least I'll have another option for when I know trees won't be around.

Yah, it is all about the bugnet.....I don't have a bugnet on my RR, and thus would have no reason to use it on the ground. If I have to go to ground, it's using my existing tarp, pad and quilt(s).

[RowdyRob]

Bugs and ground creepers

[Tikker]

I know I'm a Noob, but I don't get the advantage of using your hammock like this. I mean, you could put a cloth down, maybe your uq down and then your top quilt on top. unless it is for the bug net, then I guess i understand, maybe.

this is where I'd use a pad, instead of an UQ. this way at least you're still comfortable and insulated whether you're on the ground, or hanging in the air.

[Benson Burner]

Last year me and goforth hiked the loowit trail around mt. St. Helens. There was a night and a questionable second night perhaps without trees. I opted for the ridge runner for the big protection. I went with my sleeping pad as my insulation that trip whether in the air or not. So I left my UQ. So, I brought a very small pad from gg. This protected the air pad. It was a sweet set up for when I was forced to go to the ground slept like a baby and could hear rumblings under me the shifting lava and glacier fed drainages which stopped flowing in the night during refreeze. It’s the best set up to concert to bivy. IMHO. Also these are reasons why I do it. So they exist.
At the very end it shows the set up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrc91zz04UA
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