Hi Everyone,
I recently purchased a Hennessy Hammock - Expedition Classic, and spent a week at boy scout camp using it every day. First impression is that I'll never sleep on the ground again. It was so much better than tent camping.
I setup and took down the hammock a half dozen times, learning throughout the process on how far apart, and and much slack to put in the lines. After watching a couple videos I think I got the hang of it, but I do have two questions, which might be related:
First question is that I always seemed to have a fabric seam or fabric vein in my hammock. Basically unless I slept on a foam pad, it was too uncomfortable as there was always at least one bunch of fabric digging into my legs. This didn't seem to be a big deal, and the foam pad fixed the issue, but I wanted to make sure it was normal with my hammock. Someone else in camp had another hammock that I tried and I didn't notice this in theirs. The material in their hammock spread evenly and was more comfortable without a pad. I assume I could have slept in their hammock without a pad, which is something I wasn't able to do with mine.
Question number two, I spent a fair amount of time trying to find the hammock sweet spot, and although I slept fairly well, it did appear that my "outside" leg was always a bit cramped against the outer side of the hammock fabric. I'm 5 10" and weight 180lbs, and the hammock felt a bit tight. Since I'm not that big I was bit surprised that one of my legs always seemed cramped, and it was hard to find a comfortable position with both legs fully extended. Once again, I didn't have this issue when testing out my buddies hammock.
Thank for any input
Aaron
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