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Substitute polycryo for space blanket, and that’s my current option. I’m also thinking about substituting an inflatable pad for my underquilt this May in Southern England.


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I’ve been very pleased with Hofmann out of Brandon MB. I’ve bought various supplies from them for doing a DIY underquilt as well as for adding zippers onto my HH Classic hammock. Gerrit has been...

I’ll second those comments. I’ve used two different Thermarest Prolite inflatable pads, and an inflatable Klymit Swiss-cheese pad. The Klymit was small when deflated, so that was good. It was also...

I like the feature of my Hennessy tarps that have a little pocket for stashing each tarp cord right in the triangular piece that he uses to attach the cords. It’s a delightful and insightful feature...

I don’t use forums at all. In fact, I’m seldom aware of them.
I use Tapatalk on my phone to read HF, and set it to show unread messages.
So despite proudly being from Canada, and frequently...

I am concerned with digging channels. In a heavily used campsite, this is not sustainable, and would lead to erosion that could be come serious.

My personal preference is to minimize disturbance...

Just exactly what I do last night! Window-shield under pad, and top quilt on top. HH asym big tarp held up by trekking poles. Heavy rain, moderate winds, totally dry overnight!

I took the foot end...

I’m in awe!

While you folks were paddling Killarney, I was up above you, hiking the LaCloche Silhouette Trail with two partners. It was tough at times for this body that’s been around the Sun 69 times.
I’ve...

I would caution against that approach of placing sticks between bark and straps. In effect, that concentrates the pressure into a much reduced area, which would surely increase the damage to the...

Shug, your videos have given my already very supportive wife an even better understanding of why I hammock and why I hike. We are truly indebted to you!

It’s not just saved weight for me. It’s also about volume being saved.

I cut my cookset weight significantly but my greatest saving was in volume (as well as adding in two extra possible fuels)....

A lot dummer, and a lot less happy!

I sewed a Climashield UQ this winter. Very successfully, I think. Not elegant, but certainly effective.
I spent some time adjusting the tension to get it even. That helped.
Eventually, I ended up...

Between a Spartan apple tree and a Bartlett pear tree, amusing the folks in the nursing home behind me. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190409/e40e187a271fe13f39dde0c6a0af07a3.jpg


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I slept outside the other night, eager to test the zipper modification I’d just finished converting my Hennessy bottom-entry hammock to a side-entry hammock. The mod is great, especially because my...

I’ve had good results with a Klymit Inertia O-Zone inflating swiss-cheese holey pad in the hammock. Light (360gm) and rolls to the size of a small drinking bottle. Would be minimally acceptable on...

No — just camp with a tenter. Let them be on tenterhooks!

I started using my Hennessy with a Prolite pad and then found the so much lighter and less bulky Klymit Inertia O-zone full-of-swiss-cheese-holes inflatable pad. The Klymit worked well enough for me...

I just slept outside last night testing my DIY Climashield underquilt (excellent kit from HOGS Equipment, Manitoba, that I sewed extra-long with an added extra layer of insulation hoping for -5°C). I...

I’m puzzled …

If I think that my feet are more important hiking, then I lay right. If I think that my brain counts for more, I lay left. If I don’t think, then I just squeeze myself into my...

This whole thread has been one of the best online threads I’ve followed. Thanks Bill & Bill — and the rest of you!

I now have to apply what I’m learning here to what actually happens to me on the...

Maybe I need to put more on … Never lasts me more than about a dozen snores or so …

My understanding is that the milkweed fluff wets really easily — and then disintegrates without being recoverable.


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Call them by telephone perhaps.


Bruce Traillium

HH is a Canadian firm. Go to their website and order in Canadian dollars. That's how I got my asym Hex. Great tarp!


Bruce Traillium

I just finished thruhiking the Bruce Trail, Niagara, hanging in my HH. (I joined with Kookork after a chance meeting on my third day. Wonderful!)
I tend to drink a lot during the day, and reduce the...

iPhone user here. Always willing to try an app — I have too many, but once in a while a goodie comes around.
Must say, though, that Tapatalk works for me. I also use it to read other forums on...

I'm thinking of using a carabiner to hang my backpack from my Whoopie Sling, attaching it near the foot end of my hammock and under my tarp?
Problems?


Bruce Traillium

As an Ontario dweller, I could only find permethrin in agricultural supplies stores — and a pesticide permit is required. ****!
I am trying to get a friend from below the border to bring me some...

In the past, I've used paracord-type material. So, yes, strong.
I just made another one using Amsteel (with properly locked Brummels — as I learn well through fid'dling …)
Magnetic breakaways …...

Point taken. This was a proof-of-concept and of technique. (I've used non-breakaway lanyards for years, always aware of that issue but no problems so far … Poor excuse, eh? …)

Spent a few hours 'fid'dling and turned out a quite serviceable mini Whoopie Sling for my botanist's magnifier.
I traded a jar of homemade marmalade for a couple of used guitar strings — unwrapped...

I spliced ZingIt with a big–headed darning needle that I carry in my repair kit.

I have the same hammock. I'm almost 6'4" and it's fine for me.
Looking at your first overall hang photo, I can't quite tell your hang/sag angle, but it does seem to me that you've hung it too flat,...

Soap in a lake?
No, no, no!
Big pot of water warmed over a fire and carried back a couple of hundred steps from ant watercourse for a sponge bath & rinse? Absolutely! Then dive off into the...

But … I only need quantities in the hundreds … Surely Dutch can come up with that option, eh? …

I just installed my first DutchWare — oh my!
So delicate and dainty looking — yet so strong and so much more efficient!

Please send help …
And more Dutch bling!!!

Just replaced my stock HH suspension with bling from Dutch. Oh my! A bit lighter, and so much easier!!!

I'm waiting anxiously for my Whoopie Slings to come from Dutch. I've also bought his complete ridgeline system and tarp guy lines.

I figure I could make my own, but I can't find dynema whatever...

I've succumbed to the koolaid and have Dutch Whoopie slings on order for my HH …
And now I've ordered Dutch bling for my HH tarp — and that before I've actually received my first Dutch order …
Oh...

On my last two canoe trips into Quetico (the Ontario side of BWCA), I followed the advice of the major local outfitter: we left the food on the ground by the fire pit in a cardboard box in a Duluth...

Love this!

Stunning!

(Envy from this flatlander!)

Wow — I'm impressed with your result — thanks for detailed testing! What a great bit of data!

I've just switched to a hex tarp after spending a very windy night with temps dropping to the freezing level under an asym tarp. I stayed dry, but oh my, the windchill was fierce …
I'd definitely...

FWIW, I've had great advice and great gear selection from Adventure Guide in KW. See Ashley, though the rest of the staff is also very good.
I've been the rounds of all the outdoor stores I can...

+1 to dkurfiss.

Like the OP, I'm from Southern Ontario. Unlike the OP, I'm 192cm / 96kg (6'4", 205lbs).
I slept very comfortably outside last night in my backyard, slung between an apple tree...

Sweet projects!