Has anyone ever had straps slip down a tree? I've been at this for several years now, and until today I'd never had it happen either.
Nothing dramatic...just a little scary. I heard a crackling sound and felt a slight shock to the hammock. It was a new hammock settling in, and I'd been fooling with an adjustable ridgeline so I figured it was the CLs or the adjustable ridgeline settling.
Then I heard/felt it again, more dramatically, so I gingerly got out of the hammock and found the webbing had slipped down and started rolling around itself so it was no longer wide along the tree, but kind of bunched up.
A couple odd things about this hang...VERY deep angles,...> 45 degrees. Dyneema (super slippery) straps. The tree was an old oak I've hanged from a ton of times.
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