No zippered fly/screen over hammock
for me–I won’t risk scrotum snag for nutin’.
Just a little bug repellent and sneakers is all I wear when using a hammock–Never know when you’ll have to get up in the middle of the night to have a naked knife fight with a bear!
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2495967460105552613Xnaqom
And if you’re going to carry along poles to rig up a hammock, then you might as well just carry along a little spare lumber, and git yer tent up off the ground proper! An LL XP 10 should be able to carry a set up like this–
http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2628704790105552613sfizOr
I don’t mess around when camping, ANYTHING ELSE WOULD BE UN-CIVILIZED! (
I have a Tentcot and really enjoy it
but it can be a challenge to haul it around. Here is a picture of it on my SOT at Fargo, GA on the Suwannee River.
https://picasaweb.google.com/kayakken3/SuwanneeRiver#5149964902381294562
an setup on a small island.
https://picasaweb.google.com/kayakken3/SuwanneeRiver#5149965069885019138
http://www.gandermountain.com/modperl/product/details.cgi?i=402125&pdesc=Kamp_Rite_Oversized_Tent_Cot_with_Rainfly&str=tentcot&merchID=4005
I have been giving some serious thought about getting a Kamp-Rite™ Collapsible Combo Tent Cot
http://www.gandermountain.com/modperl/product/details.cgi?i=430318&pdesc=Kamp_Rite_Collapsible_Combo_Tent_Cot&str=tentcot&merchID=4005
Tentcot
Interesting. Have you ever slept through a night in a downpour? Just wondering about the seam sealing and the ability to avoid water pooling on the top?
my daughter lived in a hammock
while with the Peace Corps in Africa.
well, she spent more nights in the hammock than in bed because it was cooler (her thermometer broke at 140+) and kept the bugs off her.
But we spent money and got a top-of-the-line hammock, soaked it with mosquito repellent, modified the ropes with 1" webbing and added zipper pill-lines.
She also found them to be more comfortable if she put her thermarest pad inthe hammock and slept on the pad in the hammock.
I prefer a tent myself.
I have a neice in the Peace Corps
in El Salvador. Everyone in her village (her included) sleeps in hammocks for those reasons. Babies through grandparents.
She has issued me a challenge to install a hammock stand in my apartment and to sleep in a hammock as often as she.
Jim
Problem resolved…
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Paddle a canoe.
Take a tent larger than necessary for the number of tent occupants.
Carry an an extra thick/extra long Thermarest, and a comfy pillow. Sleeping bags, sheets, or covers of your choice; no problem.
Also carry "anything else" you could "possibly" want, or "need".........like a Cooke Custom Covers rainfly, which I can walk under as I exit my tent. Rain, snow, sleet; no sweat.
Try spending a day trapped in a hammock, cooking in a hammock, sitting in a chair in your hammock, or drying wet clothes inside your hammock.
Not a minimalist anymore.
Been there/done that; my opinion......it sucked.
BOB
I do all that and more…
…in (sorta) my hammock…I use a 10 by 10 tarp, which gives me a 14 foot corner to corner 100 sq foot place out of the rain…I cook, Sit, hang out and all that underneath…the hammock stays velcro’ed to the ridgeline until I want a nap…
Granted, hammocks are not for everyone, but I’m one of the ones they are for!
Two words Bob:
Warbonnet Superfly!
Cavernous, adjustable, private. With the netting of my Warbonnet Blackbird zipped open and reefed I can sit sideways in a lounging position. Cooking possible as well. No need to carry a chair.
Jim
Debating for the sake of debating
Depends on the areas
like other people said. Works in some places and doesn’t work well in others. I prefer a free-standing tent to hammock, easy to set up and more privacy for changing clothes or eating when it’s too cold or rainy outside.
Cooking fly - again, with a proper tent there is a small vestibule in front that can be used for this purpose. For stays longer than 1 night in one place I prefer a silnylon tarp of proper size.
ok ahem, well, gee
I have been one of the loudest proponents of a Hammock for camping but this last weekend, I simply could not get comfortable with my regular positioning in the Hennessy. Maybe I didn’t have the pitch right, or something. It was raining and blowing and I was plenty dry enough as i had brought down the fly prior to the rain.
I have the Alps Mountaineering zephyr 1 and 2 and am looking forward to using them a bit more this year. for some reason the hammock has lost its magic a bit.
Paul
Another good thing about tent
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...that I forgot to mention - spending time inside during a daytime when it's too buggy outside. If it's a warmer climate, 2-door mesh tent like Hubba Hubba even with fly attached is still mighty bright inside. You can repair something or just have your tea without being bothered by bloodsuckers (and not being covered with stinky repellent either). Even on a dark day it's still bright in there. Not a replacement fir a full-height mesh gazebo, but this is as close as it can be.
I confess I didn't try a hammock, but can't believe it is same bright and roomy inside. There is no flat floor in a hammock, and way less head room (with cover on).
yep
In both the zephyr 1 (which is really a very small solo tent and the 2, I can sit up and the vestibule gives me lots of room to store stuff. With the hammock in weather I had to rig up another tarp to put my gear under etc. Kept everything dry ok but it would have been one tent/vestibule as opposed to having to set up 2 structures (hammock and tarp)
since they are mesh tents, I get lots of ventilation and in good weather I can sleep under the stars.
they really are great tents and for the money cannot be beat.
Paul