I'm looking to carry a tarp in my hunting pack that I can hide under in the rain, turn into a hammock for a lunch time nap, and throw meat on top of when I'm boning something out. Light, water resistant, and easy to clean blood off when I get home. Any recommendations of what material to use?
That doesn't sound particularly hygienic or even remotely practical: it's a hammock, it's a tarp, and I can also use it to hold slaughtered meat? Please.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson
A polycryo sheet will serve as trap/groundsheet/butchery, then get a small pocket hammock in Hexon 1.0 or ripstopbytheroll's 1oz poly (he's got some cheap end of roll stuff on offer). Less than 1/2lb for the pair, and more hygienic.
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Gadget.
Try a separate hammock-ultra lightweight,or a hammock seat.Originally Posted by Thrillah
Thanks Gadget.
Good source of info about polycryo here,
https://backpackinglight.com/forums/topic/59450/
This is the one I made,
https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...peror%27s+tarp
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Gadget.
I'd go with a cheap fishnet hammock for the chair /napping bed and a good chunk of the vapour barrier in a thickness that meets your needs for keeping your meat clean or an emergency rain cape or fly.
I use to just use a 8'X6' cheap poly tarp rolled up on top of my day ruck.
I'm going to start carrying a fishnet hammock for a chair/napping bed from now on. Thanks for the idea T!!
were you seriously thinking about napping in something that you've cut up dead animals on?
Quick rinse and good to go.
(insert pithy quote here)
I think the idea is that predators have noses.
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