What percent of campers do hammockers make? I'd venture a guess and of course, we are a growing trend over the last 5 or 6 years. Is there a reliable poll that anyone might know of?
What percent of campers do hammockers make? I'd venture a guess and of course, we are a growing trend over the last 5 or 6 years. Is there a reliable poll that anyone might know of?
I've never seen any statistics, but I would be interested in seeing the same info.
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." -Terry Pratchett
IMHO: We are a very very very small group (hangers) of a small group (backpackers).
We are growing exponentially: I have officially converted at least 8 people, I know that some of them have also made conversions. So it would indeed be neat to know how many of us are "out there" but I'm thinking that is an unknowable number. There are 2869 members here at HF.
Of those that hang, there are even fewer (1%?) that do so in winter, about 50% of them make the Mt Rogers hangout each year, & Jan there were 40 of us if that helps.
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The number of winter hammockers is in all likelyhood unknown and unknowable. Did you count me in?Originally Posted by Doctari
Maybe I'm just being humour-deaf.
Wow, you're like the Amway of hammocking, Doctari.
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Yea, now if only I got paid for it I could hike more. Altho honestly I have made about the same amount "selling" hammocking as I did the year I actualy was in Amway in the early 80s. In other words: $0.00Wow, you're like the Amway of hammocking, Doctari.
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I mainly canoe camp in the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota and notice that hammocks are being used there. There's been talk on another board (canoeing the BW) I'm on about hammocks and I definitely see a hanging trend. No shortage of trees there.
I would totally go to Mt. Rogers if it wasn't so dern far from northern New York. But I'm a winter hanger too.
I've gotten a bunch of people interested, but none have yet made the jump from the ground to the sky. The usual reasons include camping with a significant other (rather harder to cuddle in two hammocks as opposed to one tent) and fears that the tarp won't keep them dry. Note that all the times the groundpounders have gotten soaked, I was happily dry in my hammock.
Ever considered throwing a more northerly hang-out?
If you host it... they might come.
I may be slow... But I sure am gimpy.
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Yea, I always wanted to go to "Upstate New York" & you guys get colder weather than VA do.
But then so do Finland, Hmmmmm. And that is more of a foregin country than New York is , , , ,
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Well, you are nowSo now we are up to 81 instead of 80
We need to add someone to leave at home, so next year we don't have to cut someone in half in the parking lot.
BTW: 50% is just a very rough estimate.
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