Refreshing is Tree Fool.Originally Posted by gfranxman
Are you Steve Climber? Love your backpack!
Refreshing is Tree Fool.
Are you Steve Climber? Love your backpack!
I watched one of his videos and he acted like a weirdo. I don't know if I can trust a guy that crazy.
I am so happy that I googled this.
It's a gem. Always good for a hearty belly laugh!
That TreeFool person is such a refreshing personality.
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“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
Haha, I see what you did there
I'm fortunate enough to have a very-slightly-used Gamma UL with the cuben tarp shipping to me right now.
My question: with a pad, and no underquilt, how cold can I go? I'm looking at an overnight trip in a couple weeks, lows will probably be around 30. I have a Klymit Static-V Lite Insulated pad I'll be using (R value: 4.4). Am I good, or will it be too cold?
Paintball, I would necessarily let the tarp stop you. I really am jonsing for one of the custom tarps solely because how well they button up. But I have used a variety of tarps with my 90 degree. I have found an inexpensive silnylon 10x12 can suffice and give coverage in the rain. I prop the long ends up with expandable hiking poles (one in the center on both ends) and works well enough. I also have a CF Winter Palace that I have modified to work, mainly because I wanted to be able to use it both for the WBRR and 90*. Lastly, this fall I got a good purchase from Mountain Wilderness on their XLT/Amock tarp in Marpat cammo silpoly. I haven't deployed it yet but I am confident it should work for the 90* given the similarities of the Amok hammock style. Geez, seems I getting hammock rich and money poor all too quickly.
Mine arrived. It was about 1.5 weeks. That's pretty good from Switzerland to Texas! I was only able to hang for 5-10 minutes, but it seems fine for my 6'2" frame. It definitely shrinks and expands to your length. It was very comfortable without a pad. The set up with netting and pockets is very nice. Easy to hang as well, but I did not like the descender rings at all. Might need to switch to mule tape/continuos loops with the Beckit Hitch. I found it easy to get in and out of Overall I'm very impressed. I will try to see if it can work with my Tato stand in a few days.
But for the grace of God, there, I go...
Cool, I'm glad you like it, good luck! I doubt you can get a Tato stand set up high enough to hang this hammock, but I'd love to be wrong about that.
Followup on my "30 degree weather" question - I was fairly cold, even with a Klymit Static V lite Insulated + Thermarest Z-SOL pad. Reason being, they don't fill the hammock pocket very well, even when stacked. This allowed air in the pocket around the sides of the pads, and I got cold. And the pads were of insufficient size to stretch the hammock head-to-foot, so it compressed my down quilt at the foot end against the bottom of my feet, so I got cold. And the whole thing "bananad" a bit, causing my knees to feel hyperextended (which I fixed by putting my pillow below my knees).
Lessons learned: To avoid being cold, I probably need to fill the pocket completely with something, or use an underquilt. Two stacked pads that are skinnier/shorter than the pocket doesn't do the trick.
I have since purchased a pad which should fill the whole pocket, and fit snugly (Exped 7 UL size Large/Wide), and provide good insulation. In theory, this should keeps things warm, comfortable, and the hammock well stretched out. The pad is 21oz, excellent for the size/insulation and similar to an underquilt. We'll see... it either works well or I'm headed to a gathered-end with UQ :-)
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