Just starting to sleep in a hammock and have had two experiences. I slept in it for the first time last week. It was about 65 degrees and I slept fine in a pair of sweat pants, a t-shirt and had a light fleece blanket. When I felt my back in the morning, my skin was noticeably cold, but it did not affect my sleep.
Last night a storm blew in and it cooled off to 55 degrees so I decided to try again. This time I took a cheap blue foam pad and placed it into the hammock to sleep on, then put the light fleece blanket over the pad. I laid on that, and then zipped open a sleeping bag and used it like an top quilt.
The good news was that my back did not get cold at all. The bad news was I got so hot that I was sweating. When sleeping on the ground I have always been able to unzip the bag a little, put my arms out, or something to cool off just enough to sleep well. But in the hammock, whenever I shifted the bag on top of me, I couldn't really "vent". I had to move it off of me where I would expose myself and I had cold spots in seconds.
The easy answer would probably be to get a lighter top covering, but I would still like to know if there are any tricks to regulating the temperature in a hammock when you start to get too warm.
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