Continuing my "year under the stars quest", last night, like nearly every night since last March has been sleeping in a hammock outdoors.
Most of the time in the backyard lab, as often as possible, deeper in the woods of the Pine Barrens, mountains of Pennsylvania, New York or Vermont. Learning all sorts of useful, experience taught details, picking up more knowledge at group hangs and being gifted some excellent kit by family members. Speaking of family, they are almost completely assimilated into the hammocking collective, pretty proud of that. The 7 year olds will talk your ears off about whoopie slings, nacrabiners and finding the sweet spot.
But last night was a milestone for this flatlander in the coastal pine strewn plains of New Jersey. Temps reached -11.A personal best for sleeping outdoors. Windchill with 3-5mph breezes dropped the effective temps lower but I didn't notice.
Condensation was an issue, but a minor one, some frost in the WBBB XLC, on the Hammockgear 0 degree Burrow, but nothing too troubling. Plenty warm with my stacked New River and Jarbidge KAQs from Arrowhead Equipment all sheltered by my Old Man Winter from Wilderness Logics.
Wanted to share for posterity's sake as this will be gobbled up by the interweb's Wayback Machine and document something for the kids to research in later years. And more importantly, to thank everyone for pointing me in the direction of the most excellent cottage vendors supporting hammockforums.net.
Would not have enjoyed these past 10 months, or been smiling at -11 without the solid equipment and guidance supplied by y'all.
Checked out and ready for winter hangs in the mid atlantic region.
Sub Freezing Club - check
Sub Zero Club - check
Sub -10 Club - check
Sub -20 Club - not yet
Sub -30 Club - no plans for that yet
Sub -40 Club - I can juggle but I don't ride a unicycle
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