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HYOH, but it is tip down for me. I have loops at the corners of my DD tarp big enough for the handles to go through - I twist the poles so the loops tighten around the handle. I find this does not...

The Caddis (as in the cased larva)? Might appeal to those who fly fish as well as hammock (says the fly fisherman who also hammocks!)

Hello from your side of the pond. Hope your Hallowe'en hang went well!

I think it is a rare forum indeed these days where you can have such a friendly and good natured debate about a potentially controversial topic. Really like spending time on here!

That's a really good point -although to date I have I only used pullouts when I fold in the ends of my tarp to make doors



Another really good point! (IMHO)

Many thanks to everyone who has pitched in with their views so far - really appreciate it!

I guess another reason for my (current!) preference for CRLs is that ideally I like to hammock with no...

Right - let me state from the start that I'm not dissing anyone who shuns CRLs - hang your own hang and all of that!

I've noticed that many on here - including the "Royalty"! - go for split...

Twin peak / twinpeaker?

I always think of this setup as a split ridge myself.

Scotland is more wild camping friendly, although this seems to be changing at certain spots, and a lot of the Scottish countryside is a bit sparse tree-wise! Thought you would have been well-off with...

Not over the pond to me! Welcome from the UK. Your English is an awful lot better than my German (or my English if I'm honest!). What's the hammocking scene like over the North Sea? Do you have any...

That really is quite something!

I take it you are using dutch clips on it...!

I'll get me coat......

Great idea - been seeing this on some YouTube videos - isn't dependant on you always taking the same kit. Otherwise, putting patches on backpacks is of generations-old tradition. You could also put...

Couple of thoughts in light of this latest tragedy.

First - hammock camping and hammocking in general seems to have exploded in popularity, particularly on your side of the pond. This means that...

I'd go along with the current consensus on this.

I prefer a safer (and lighter?) alternative. On the rare occasion I have any light (I like being in the dark, and I even cook in the dark if I...

A couple of events come to mind, which is pretty impressive bearing in mind that here in the UK the most dangerous thing is perhaps wasp. When I was in my mid-teens I was camped out on the bank of a...

I carry a piece of CCF with a layer of reflectix and covered with a piece of old tarp - these layers are all edged together with duct tape. It lives flat against the inside of the back of my pack. ...

Hey, Chansta - great that you are giving it another go. I am still fairly new at this stuff myself and the only gear we share is the 3x3 DD tarp , which I too hang on a paracord CRL with prussiks. ...

Single central ridgeline for me. Secured around each tree with a Farrimond hitch, and prussic loops connecting to each end of the tarp with a mini Nitize caribiner, and a third on the tarp's central...

Having a pretty rubbish time at the moment, and the end of a pretty rubbishy period in my life. I have a lot to be thankful for, but my work life has been for too long unrelentingly unrewarding,...

When we are family camping at a "proper" campsite in a "proper" family tent, my wife and I sleep on extremely comfortable inflatable mattresses. When I am wild camping I would always go for a...

Well, that's at least three of us then.

Welcome!

Jellies eels.......... mmmmmmmm!

Re: Sunny Bear's cabin site suggestion - now THAT'S a plan! Many thanks for that - now to find me the right venue.......

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Erm, just for the avoidance of doubt, when I said "what bears do in the woods", I was refering to restroom related stuff - not sure my whoopie slings are rated for any other kind of...

Try incorporating a long break into one of your hikes. Pick a really nice spot, like next to a burbling brook. Make it long enough to justify a snooze, and bring a couple of hammocks for the purpose....

Ooh! Ooh! A question I can answer with some authority!

I have two, a DD Camping and a DD Frontline.

I want others, but I have "The One In One Out Treaty" to consider. This household treaty...

Long obsession with non-match firelighting. More into friction fire methods such as bow drills and whathaveyou, but I also like having a real carbon steel strikealight with me (the one pictured in...

Ah - not just me then!

Nice spot!


Kind regards -

An impressed noob

Pretty much every time I set up a hammock in my garden and lie down in it to test it out, I fall asleep. Got real stick for it from my wife until - yes you've guessed it - I found her sound asleep...

Rigged up my two hammocks side by side last weekend so my young son was close by on his first night out in the woods in a hammock as opposed to a tent. Only the third time I have spent a night in a...

Hello, all.

Been lurking for a few weeks to learn about hammocks, having never used them before. Wild camped on and off since my teens.


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