At least in California.
Went out for three days last weekend (Memorial Day) to Yosemite with some of my friends. One of them couldn't get Friday off so he hiked out the following Saturday to join.
We were in an established campground (backpacking) in a very heavily traveled region of the park (Hetch Hetchy) so I felt very leery of leaving my hammock up while we day hiked. You hear of gear being stolen in some of the Yosemite campgrounds. I took it all down, stuffed it into my pack and threw it in a friend's tent. One problem with the hammock gear, it's unique here, and I can just see it being a victim of one of the folks with HUGE packs - too easy to stuff into a small space and make off with it.
My friends were saying that the latecomer wouldn't be able to find us if I took down the hammock.... The tents were nothing out of the ordinary, two REI and one Eureka, and we didn't have a sign or anything.
We came back from our day outing, I set up the hammock, and then went to sit in the creek where the bugs weren't biting. The friend found my hammock while I was soaking my feet.
I think I'll start going National Forest soon.... I end up turning a little Vanna in busy campgrounds. "That's the shelf... yeah, it's comfortable.... please get out of my hammock, I want to sleep now...."
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