Just curious as to...

[Zigerot]

1996.

I was a teenage in the smokey mountains with my dad. It rained for 6 days strait and on the last day some kind of dam or pool broke looses and dumped about 500 gallons of water down the hill on to our campsite, at 3 in the morning. We got swept down the trail a few dozen yards trapped in the tent.
I sort of lost interest in the whole thing after that. I didn't start hammock camping for another 10 years.

[aka.jobbe]

I sleep in a tent every gear, ill GO sailing with some of my buddys. There isnt Any trees where we Camp....

[Gristlehead]

Does military tent with bunk beds count? If so, then this past March. If not well then it has been a full calendar year since I started hammock camping.

[mbiraman]

May of 2013. I slept on a bed of pine needles in an emergency shelter lean to.

[Cannibal]

Trail Days 2007.
I bought my first camping hammock there; never looked back.

[WakarusaRiverGypsy]

After being a hammock camper for the last few years, I took my 6 yr old son camping 3 weeks ago in a tent...I have never been so uncomfortable in my life. Fast forward a couple weeks and I got little man a HH Scout and we're never looking back...he loved it.

[APRock]

One year ago on a BWCA canoe trip

[The Old Boot]

At least 30 years ago!!

I moved on to camper vans and RVs because there was no way I was sleeping on the ground again.

When I stumbled across hanging while web exploring hiking stuff, I was 'alright, I can get back out in the bush again without having to crawl around on my knees and sleep on the ground'

I'm working on building stands so that even in organized campgrounds where hanging is not possible, I will never, ever see a night on the ground.

[hppyfngy]

I'm an equal opportunity camper. Travel trailer, van, tipi, tent, hammocks.

I got 'em all and use them all.

[peanuts]

i left the ground back in 2000, but then a boxer adopted me...she would not get in the hammock........went on a 3 day trip in ga with her, took the tent(ugh)
....last night of the trip, it poured and as usual, when you think your in flat ground, you're really not...it poured and poured....lets just say, mocha learned to love the hammock after that.