I've been lurking on the forum for a year give or take. Can't really say what got me interested in hammock camping, but something did. Anyways, I picked up a cheap hammock off of Amazon last Black Friday and used it for the first time earlier this spring.
I've had back problems ever since I was a teen (45 now). The comfort the first time I tried out the hammock was unreal. My back pain simply wasn't there. Now if that was all to the story, this post would be useless
Anyway, the first two nights out I made it in a couple hours before I got too cold. It took a long time to fall asleep, which from reading here appears to be a common event for new hammock sleepers. Lots of reading here got me through that, and the third night I slept through the night. My back felt great, but I had the worse sore throat in memory. You see, I do not sleep on my back, and apparently I snore even worse than normal when I did sleep on my back in the hammock.
So now I was on a quest to figure out a hammock system that would work for me. So far that quest has not been successful. The first hammock did not have a bug net, so I picked up a Hennessy hammock. It isn't working out at all. Feels too small, even though it is the larger version. I've tried it out three separate nights, it doesn't seem to be getting better.
In a bed, I sleep half way between my side and stomach. I'm 5'9", 250 lbs. Please give me some suggestions, I really want to find the perfect hammock for me.
Thank
Pete
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