CCF promotes condensation, so it may add to your cold butt.
Try some fleece shorts or stack a mini quilt?
Heat packs and the hot water bottle should help also.
Is there a chance your quilts insulation has broken down? Or the shock cord has loosened?
CCF promotes condensation, so it may add to your cold butt.
Try some fleece shorts or stack a mini quilt?
Heat packs and the hot water bottle should help also.
Is there a chance your quilts insulation has broken down? Or the shock cord has loosened?
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Millergear, all good advice above.
I would not have pad under hammock-between hammock and underquilt. This can cause underquilt to have air gaps.
Pad, if used, should be in hammock or inside double layer hammock.
Your best bet is to get a zero degree underquilt and rig it so that it lifts empty hammock one foot above height of hammock. Shug shows this in his videos. Also secondary underquilt suspension and end cords must be adjusted at each use.
Again Shug’s videos are a goldmine!
- Will do Pad inside
- With a 0 Degree at 40 degrees would be a Sauna bath for the rest of me!
- I have some options for extra targeted insulation. A Down Throw between Hammock and UQ. Add my Poncho Liner UQ; over or under the UQ? More Gear to deal with.
- Swap my Potomac for a differential cut UQ to ensure a tight fit. Still need added Butt insulation
I have used most of the suggested remedies for years with good results. This excessive CBS is a recent issue. My Physiology has changed: fatter Butt, slower circulation (age and Cancer suppression drug)
I THOUGHT GETTING OLDER WOULD TAKE MUCH LONGER.
While trying to figure it out, why not just use pants? Preferably, the least breathable that you have available, some sort of rain gear, or spend just a few $ on some Frog Toggs or equivalent at WM or online. But, you might not be able to get just pants, so just whatever you have available? I know WPB rain gear is supposed to be breathable- and not a VB - but there are many reports of breathable rain gear ( might vary with how breathable, or the brand) functioning pretty well as a VB. Wear with only thin layers under the raingear, with most insulation outside the rain pants. Otherwise you risk condensation inside your insulation, which might prove a big negative. If the VB is kept about as warm as skin, without over heating, any moisture accumulation should be very minimal if any. If you do get a little, it won't make ypu cold, since it can neither evaporate nor get into your main insulation.
Even if it did not help, it would be a quick, easy free experiment, assuming you have some rain pants to try. Once, Dejoha("The Ultimate Hang" guy) wrapped his lower body in his tarp in an approaching hypothermia situation, with great results.
The pad you are using( most pads are VBs), is it directly under the hammock, and not between the UQ and say an UQP? The latter(under an UQ) might make things worse, due to condensation. But yes, either way, I think butt directly on the pad might give more warmth. And inside the hammock is less likely to interfere with UQ fit, maybe. Some folks report lots of condensation problems with pad use. But that is just one more problem that VB pants would prevent. It's worth a shot in a 1 night experiment with safe bail out available!
Maybe you need to wash your UQs with a good down wash and fluff them in the dryer to get the down back to it's best possible condition.
Also migrate your down or most of it in the area of your buttocks.
Could help.
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I have recently worn some cyclist shorts which have a specific integrated pad under the butt. That kinda distributes pressure evenly in the area. When wearing it, you do not feel your butt anymore. Maybe that would help ?
Although I am not sure the pressure of the hammock applies in the same spot. So maybe you could just cut a piece of foam pad or another more breathable hard fabric and insert it inside your night underwear.
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