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I bought a xtherm pad about 5 or six years ago and just started using it this past winter on the ground and slept very well on it, well enough that 99 percent of my trips I was a ground dweller again...

another good tip, after all these years of pacing.....

under quilt, you will know it quick when your kidney area is cold.

it was probably matt moneymaker, no worries in rock bluff, big foot lives on the other side in rock creek, site 2 mostly...LOL.

creek

I am glad you asked, I don't know how many you would sell, it seems I may be the last person on earth using them but I am a big fan and know of only one place to get them....

light seamless...

for what it is worth I am in NW Fla and sleep pretty dang cold, I have a 0*, a 20* and Costco set I made, I am leaning toward a 40* and layering simply because there is only a few days a year below...

I would definitely try that as opposed to using a pad, imho pads in a hammock suck.

creek

that is the first hammock I ever had, I was about 11 or 12 as well. never even tried to sleep in it. my brother and I had 2 shelter halves and a pole set and abandoned that as well. we and our...

good job, like your taste in flags to.

creek

good on ya Chris.

I still am excited........I want one !!

creek

Copied and pasted from the xsforis thread linked above.

I bought 3 of these and after using it inside for about 5 days I cant imagine it being worth the weight for anything but a true florida...

I bought 3 of these and after using it inside for about 5 days I cant imagine it being worth the weight for anything but a true florida summer. it will work well for me and my grandsons for summer...

10-4, Thanks.

creek

I experimented with the sleeping bag thing and it is very doable but when it got down to it I couldn't bring myself to cut up any of the bags I had that would have kept my butt warm. I tried rigging...

I see this is nearing a month old but I hope I can help ease your mind, I have 3 revolts and they are very good quilts. I work on the premise that 0* means 20*, 20* means 40* etc. I have had my 0*...

I did a search and found nothing, does anyone here have any experience with the Twisted Root summer under quilt ???

thanks.

creek.

I have used a Yukon walk about and one of the blue sil tarps from bass pro rigged as a hex and have never gotten wet, in fact it's been flooding here for a few days off and on and it's been killin me...

and 11 bucks for a demo just add some straps or whoops.

I throw my top quilt over the ridgeline or across the foot of the hammock, get in the hammock and then retrieve the quilt and lifting my feet place them into the foot fox and adjust as needed, no...

you both have definitely done your home work, those are nice rigs and the video was awesome, share your channel and review some gear for us or some trip reports.

I hate summer camping in florida...

I am jealous as well, God speed and good luck and please share your trail journal with us.

creek

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this is my Baby Tinker, she passed almost a year ago and I will never get over the loss. I have 4 dogs and I love them all but none of them are a Tinker.

I put my smallest ( another...

Amen!!

I Thank God it wasn't worse and wish you a speedy and complete recovery. I admire your spirit !!!!!!!!!!!!!

creek

I meant to mention/suggest a video of Shug doing a presentation for a group of scouts. it is not on his channel but it is on youtube and it is very entertaining.

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I would skip the pad thing, other than that it has been and is fun learning.

creek

i'll try to keep this short, I could write a short story.

the number one helpful thing Shug has done for me is to provide one stop shopping. I decided I wanted to switch to hanging and started...

IronFish, I have a brand new Ridge Runner you are welcome to, just send me a PM if you want it. I don't have spare quilts but I do have a couple of thermarest pads, I can offer you one of those.
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must be a Scotts Irish thing, my grandmothers folks were from the Brunswick area and she taught me toboggan.

I got a custom .62 cal flintlock smoothie with a curly maple stock and iron furniture, WHOOO BUDDDY !!! the son in law got my wife and me a flat screen tv. I made my grandsons knives and sheaths and...

AMEN George!!
I do my best to buy American, for home and work but sadly it is getting harder and harder. I would have never thought my favorite Wolverine work boots would have been made in China, I...

was there about a month ago and it got in the teens at yellow gap I was told, there was a good wind all night so it sure felt like it. I sure have a whole new respect for mountain folk i'll tell you...

I am sure I speak for many in saying thank you for pushing the envelope, when one cottage vendor sets the bar higher others are bound to try to reach it and it benefits us all in the end.

thanks....

I love the zipper extension and can picture this being an option one day.

keep up the good work.

creek

your not alone, it took me awhile too and even now if I experiment and get it off it can take days to get it right again. one thing you are bound to hear that made no sense when I first heard it is...

I actually considered taping the 50 pound bags together to make a ground cloth for a tent but didn't like the idea of cleaning the oil off because of the time it would take so I used tyvek but I have...

made a matching TQ and UQ with two of the browns and two TQ's with a copper and blue for the grandsons. I stole someone else's idea, I just sewed one end to make a foot box and gathered it up into a...

that sounds like a good system, I have a few of the Costco down throws I may try something like that to get some use out of them.

creek

back problems are almost non existent for me now after 20+ years of suffering, all because of hammocks.
as someone else said it takes some tweaking but once you get it right it beats a sleep number...

I don't know how low a pluq will take you but we are in north florida and despite the perception it gets cold here, not like Chicago but in the twentys and occasionally in the teens.

creek

If you want to explore the florida trail south of Tallahassee or maybe visit Torreya I have a ridge runner you can try out before you buy. I should be able to shuttle you as well if you opt for the...

used my 0* revolt in the Roan Highlands last week with the lows at elevation in the teens and a wind of probably 20 MPH and never got cold butt at all. I wore a mid weight wool poly base and a...

that's what I was thinkin as well. I kinda hope we get to talk to some sobo's finishing up but it will make it all the harder to come back to work.

packing the last of the food items either...

then my wife will always be safe from bears, don't tell her I said so though, she can be a bear at times to.

it is quite costly I will admit and if you sleep well on your pads then its all go. if I was willing to carry an EXPED I would probably still be on the ground but after one trip with a hammock I was...

thank you both, we will look at those options.

10-4 on the leaf watchers. I hadn't really thought about it until recently but maybe we be crowded with them while on trail. it is all of our first...

many thanks, I had given up on a response and quit checking, came on to ask a different question in a new thread but i'll post it here and begin praying.

I was planning to be in the Highlands as...

thanks Karbo, I am going to give that a try.

creek