Hey guys I'm new. I am well aware that there are hundreds of hammock tips and tricks. I'm asking me to drop on me the most useful hammock tips you've gathered from experience. Thank you! This will help a ton to get me started.
Hey guys I'm new. I am well aware that there are hundreds of hammock tips and tricks. I'm asking me to drop on me the most useful hammock tips you've gathered from experience. Thank you! This will help a ton to get me started.
#1 Tip Go and get a copy of The Ultimate Hang on the way to you or download it to your favorite device. Then Read It...All of it.
#2 Read and read and read and read and read here.
#3 Hang your hammock. Lots, take it down pack it up and then hang it again.
In 1-8 years you will be well on the way to being a hammock expert.
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1. Welcome to the forums from down at the beach!
2. Come to one of the group hangs planned this fall. The Yates Place Hang in late October is very close to you. You can learn so much very fast by seeing other hangers rigs.
There is also a hang at Watoga State park in south-eastern WV. Not too far north of Lewisburg. Not sure how far that is for you.
Take all the advice you can get, but remember to tweak it for yourself.
Throw away your mattress.
I'd rather be hanging.
Read read read and read some more
Hang yourself over and over and over and over again
Write nothing in stone
Be very very very wary of that Rabbit hole
Hang back, relax, enjoy the ride
Oh yah plus 1 on throw away the Mattress and hang away the nights
Life is too Short to not feed the addiction....Hang on and explore the World
Hang out here often and if you have a green hammock don't use an angle of less than 20 degrees.
Tip... with all the talk about how great hammocks are, don't expect perfect sleep. That is one of the things that keeps us looking for nirvana - with new hammocks, etc., to improve the experience. That said, you should know, your body should tell you from the very first morning that the hammock is better than the ground.
"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe... ?"
- Kate Chopin
Be sure to hang your foot end higher, if you don't have a ridge line get one.
My two tips not necessarily in order are:
1. Do not hang any higher than you are willing to fall.
2. Do not underestimate the importance of bottom insulation be it an underquilt or pad or something else. Unless you are somewhere where the nights stay very warm you will need something.
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