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    Senior Member titanium_hiker's Avatar
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    10 beginner mistakes

    So, everyone was a beginner once.

    What were some mistakes you made, as part of your learning curve?

    Then we can compile the 10 crucial things to know for newbies.

    Don't panic if you can't think of ten.

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    *) Cranking the hammock too tight. You need a bit of sag to be comfy.

    *) not sleeping with any under insulation. Brr! who knew that the air around you would mosey off with your heat?
    my hammock gear weights total: 2430g (~86oz)
    Winter: total 2521 (~89oz)
    (see my profile for detailed weights)

    gram counter, not gram weenie!

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    Senior Member shrek's Avatar
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    Make sure your suspension is set up properly. The ground can be hard.
    "I used to be sane, but now I'm better."

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    Use those slippery half hitches for back up!
    “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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    make sure what you are using for suspension will hold you
    I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane. - Waylon Jennings

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    Don't use a 50 year old WWII surplus hammock until you replace the ropes.

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    Make sure the foot end is slightly higher than the head end.

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    Practice setting up your hammock before going out camping.

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    If you're setting up in the dark at lower elevations, look down with the headlamp at least once before you set up.

    My first hang was over some brush in a river bottom. Some of the brush was poison oak.

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    Don't setup your hammock in the front yard (because there's no trees in the back) at 6am in the morning ... it makes the neighbors talk about a homeless person on the block.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hike4WD View Post
    Don't setup your hammock in the front yard (because there's no trees in the back) at 6am in the morning ... it makes the neighbors talk about a homeless person on the block.
    From where I come from that's a pretty high class form of homelessness.
    I may be slow... But I sure am gimpy.

    "Bless you child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way."
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