Here's hoping the 1.1dl netted light hiker goes on sale next!! I'm starting to go hunting a want a lighter, pad friendly hammock. But $230 is hard to scare up,especially while looking for work.
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Here's hoping the 1.1dl netted light hiker goes on sale next!! I'm starting to go hunting a want a lighter, pad friendly hammock. But $230 is hard to scare up,especially while looking for work.
Sorry cant afford to outright buy it and all i have for trade is a Clark NX-250.
Allright I'm going to lay out everything I took with me and if I can afford it get a scale. Ill try to get it done today.
Scratch the above. A friends house flooded and I'm helping her out.
Honestly my watches alarm will not wake me.
I know to call the local ranger station, I just forgot and trust me I feel stupid for it.
As for Asthma, I have a daily regime of medications I take and...
Sue me, I get into story telling. Tis a family trait. And nah its all me.
So I guess I should recount my first over night trip, gear I carried, and lessons learned that brought me to this point. And a little on me, with that being the most important piece of kit I take...
Yeah thats my beauty of a multicam pack and I dont intend to give it up for good (unless I have to). As for the hammock, I do love it, it's hard to beat the Cadillac of hammocks the clarks NX-250....
Thanks papa smurf. Im thinking a single layer multicam blackbird and a pack from ula....
Well my packs 8 lbs, and the hammocks close to 5 lbs....
So me thinks they be the first to get lightened. But a scale is a good idea too...
Bob marley, i can translate yoda.
I have no idea what your trying to say here....
So I have officially done my first over night campout. While some of the problems I had hiking to my chosen site is due to my being outta shape and my asthma (pronounced MIasMA) I a positive that a...
Ill take the camera and the goal zero adventure kit please!
For me it'll depend on how my finances are looking. My wilderness survival class has me driving all over the place for class and its really hurting my play time funds. On the other hand im outdoors...
May I suggest the swift kick test? Or the hard shake test? Its worked thus far in my limited experiance
Look on the forums for a tensgrity (dunno how to spell it) stand. I've seen plans for three and four person version here on the forums.
Its reputation among my old unit and I tend to beat the daylights of my gear. Gentle isn't in my vocab much, if it cant survive being dropped, thrown, stepped on, kicked, sat on, etc... I really am...
Funnily enough the TQ and UQ i got from Hammock gear was also in multicam! Much to my joy and surprise!
Stormcrow over at hammock gear does camo down under quilts.
I should be able to make it. We will see when its a bit closer!
Multicam fabrics is owned by duro industry who owns the rights to the multicam pattern. Any other place that sells it is either fake, or being resold from duro. Aside from that, smokehouse has played...
That's the idea RR, a hot tarp. I'm not super friendly with old man winter, but I'm hoping this will take us from brief nods to at least speaking. Have a warm shelter to crawl out into first thing...
Wow I just got told this exists. Yes smokehouse I love it! Do you think if I asked to run away with me it say yes?
A little on the development notes: Originally I tried to talk smokehouse into a...
No rain thank you! It was indeed a great hang, my inaugural hang in my own hammock. The fires were insane to get started, hardwood is a different beast than soft wood. Lots of good stories and lots...
I'm debating being early as well, even with this hole in my leg. I just want to be and about! But there is the slimmest of chances that my quilts may arrive ( or am I deluding my self?).
I don't have a tracking number, it just says "awaiting fulfillment". Shot him a line and havt heard back this time. He did say something about a down crisis, so I'm planning on the pads with the...
I'm still hoping my quilts arrive from stormcrow in time, if not (as OnB knows) my plans are to double ccf pads, and zliner. If that doesn't work Ill try throwing a sportsman Mylar blanket underneath...
I'm about a quarter of a way through the wood, only a single blister thus far! Wet wood is a pain to split, I've actually considered getting the full sized sledgehammer rather than just my little...
Ill vouch for what OnB is saying, at the wolf hang I was planning on attending as a ground dweller. Cannibal set me up with a complete, different, hammock setup for the two nights we were there.
Dunno, we may and we may not. Better over prepared than under prepared is my view, besides anything we don't use can be set aside for use later. It also give me a bit of a workout and another way to...
I've got good news and bad news.
Good news is I have a short truck bed full of wood. Mostly aspen and pine with a touch of 2x4 and the like.
Bad news is its mostly fresh cut. I'm going to...
Some one, long ago, once posted a pic of a hammock hostel. It was very cool with open construction so you had a roof and a view.
That's some warm looking wood you got there!
Might be a stupid idea, put why not install some kind of roll bar to hang on? Tell the wife it enhances safety (it should right?), drill through the walls and through the pipes, add your eye bolts,...
2+ tons for a full cord of hardwood? Dang! I have heard great stories told by those who came before that burning pinon smells amazing.......subtle hinting in progress: warning!
So I'll grab anything available that can burn. With luck we will be ok on the firewood department.
Stormcrow has told me that I should have the quilts in time. My backup plan is to double up on cfc pads and the z liner. If that doesn't work add a space blanket. As for the smokehouse tarp, it...
Thanks OnB, I kinda splurged stupidly and bought a metric ton of gear. I got me the Eberlestock Dragonfly so I should be ok. It my tarp and quilts I'm worried wont arrive in time.
I don't plan to wonder, I plan to (eventually) B.O.A.T. And pick up one or two more! Have to have something to share right?
They ain't my first pick either. So I'll ignore pallets.
Thanks all! I finally got out it this unseasonably warm weather and got to hang it for the first time! Other than the foot end of the z-liner not quite wanting to sit perfect and no idea what to do...
I'm 6'4" at 220lbs and am comfy relaxing and napping in a GT ultralight. At only $20 it's hard to beat the price. Haven't done much else with it though.
I hav read of some people packing an amsteel dog run to give fido room to maneuver at night. As I am lacking a best friend currently I haven't a foggiest but am enjoying the ideas presented here....
I wouldn't know if I could chip in till the day of our trip. I'm fairly well broke till then unfortunately.
I'm keeping an eye on Craigslist. Hopefully there will be some freebie stuff available to burn before the group hang. Especially if no one objects to pallets.
I know smokehouse is making more of his self named tarps out of multicam material that's not only water proof, it's fire retardant! Not exactly ultralight but hey safety rarely is.
I'm in either which way.
Campsite looks good. Make it a bit easier on this here rook. Snowballs are not appealing tp.
National means I don't have to pay, woot for saving money! If anyone knows of a free source in the springs ill bring a truck bed full of wood. Don't have gaiters, or cleats, need more foil tape for...
Couldn't we just haul wood from the bushcraft camp? It's what, a mile? All hands on deck once or twice and we should be good right? Ill bring a buck saw, pocket chain saw, double bit axe, and a...