I have the Hennessy Jungle Explorer Zip and I think after 2 seasons it's time for an upgrade. I narrowed down my new hammock to DH or Chameleon but I'm afraid the 6 week lead time for DH is too long so I will have to go with the Chameleon. Also Dutch seems to be doing great things and happy to support him!
I've been doing quite a bit of research on the final setup but I do have some last questions I'm hoping you'z can help out with:
For reference, I'm 6'0 and 200lbs - I will mostly be hanging in the North East in the summer time.
1) Wide vs regular: I've read various claims and reviews that the hexon 1.0 is a lot more comfortable than the 1.6 for some - especially side sleepers of which I'm one. Wide only comes in 1.6. I only have the Hennessy as point of reference which I do find a bit small (granted it's only 10' I think). The chameleon regular I imagine would automatically be better. I do camp on my motorcycle so keeping weight, size down is important so I'm leaning more towards the regular instead of wide.
2) Is anyone aware of photo galleries of chameleons in various colors and printed colors? I prefer to blend in as much as possible so I will probably opt for a forest green body. I would do coyote brown but somehow my mind tends to think that I may look like a stationary deer or moose to a bear! I suppose a printed leaf bugnet might also personalize the hammock as well as help to blend in but there aren't many pics I can find. I don't have an oz. of creativity/imagination so hard for me to visualize from swatches
3) Regarding double layer, I admit if I had ordered this thing a month ago I would have went with double layer hexon 1.0 because I'm super paranoid of mosquitoes biting me at night. I've never been bitten in my double layer Hennessy but I can absolutely hear those mothers buzzing around my hammock. I think the UQ should help mitigate the risk and also learned that permetherin should help so I will just treat with that. Unless of course someone wants to warn me otherwise!
4) For suspension to keep things light, I'm going to go with whoopie slings like Shug uses in his videos. I'll figure out when I call Dutch what other hardware I need i.e, toggles, etc..
Now that I've dumped my thoughts here, i guess the biggest consideration is wide vs regular and really fortifying the colors/patterns before pulling the trigger.
Thanks everyone!
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