I tend to agree.Originally Posted by FLRider
I tend to agree.
Time is but the stream I go afishing in. Henry David Thoreau
Okay - this is nothing new, well at least the concept. Fly fishermen wearing lots of insulation and being far from tree cover have a similar need.
This was one of the attributes of the bottom entry HH. You could, if you had to, relieve yourself via the bottom entry.
Thoughts:
1. If you sleep in a warm layer(s) getting up at night is not so bad, slip on your Crocs and go. This is my preferred method.
2. One could also use a pee bottle, keeping it and the warmth in the hammock with them - I prefer not to, but I live in the southeast with mostly mild winters.
3. Or..you could use a pee tube, I wouldn't knock it in really cold temps.
Bottom line is it depends on how freakin cold it is and how hard the wind is blowing, maintaining your body temp in a tough situation will cause you to be very practical.
Last edited by trouthunter; 12-12-2014 at 02:17.
I like to go solo - off trail - immerse myself in the area - explore - eat really well - and make it back home.
Suppose you could also dig a little hole below your hammock beforehand..
It appears that there will be few converts to this practice...that's cool. Everyone can do things in their own way. But I do think the risks have been been drastically overestimated by folks who wouldn't try it. There are no Beijing-style roving urine clouds, no sesspools at the foot of the hammock...just a small hole in the snow. It's quite easy to avoid mistakes. Finally, getting up is not the problem I'm addressing here....it's warming my quilts back up in sub-freezing temps. This can take a long time for me...time I now spend sleeping.
As an aside, I simply boil a few more ounces of water in the morning to rinse. I store the extension on the outside of my pack. I'm a rather fastidious person in general, and my process falls well within acceptable tolerances for me.
Your way is cool too.
LOL...my first reply was not a dissing of the idea. I actually kinda like it. Just trying to wrap my head around it. Got me thinking and I remembered that I have about 5 feet of 2 inch diameter tygon tubing... I could cut that up and use a velcro strap to loop it to my back.
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To go for a walk or lay above evaporating urine.....hyoh guys, just hang a fair walk away from me!
Ur-in your hammock.....no thanks, I try to minimize the foreign particles in mine.
Keep up the outside the hammock thinking hough!
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Wrong. Urine is not sterile
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I'm waiting for someone to start the "I pissed my hammock and quilts because I was too ______ to get out and do it properly!" thread. Horror stories from beyond the loo!
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Interesting, thanks.
Is everything I know wrong?
My kids are only 12 - I figured I had another year or so before I became bereft of any relevant knowledge.
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