Out this weekend for an overnighter.. with a little under ten miles done, most of which was in the rain, we made camp with the intention to do another 10-ish on Sunday.
Set up everything, had a bite to eat and since it was still early (EARLY!) I got the urge to take an afternoon nap.
No sooner did I ease my butt into the hammock, and.... Riiiiippppp! Down I go.
Total and catastrophic failure of the Monolite hammock.
I made this hammock a few months back.. Right when this fabric/netting was first launched. Prior to this one I had made about five hammocks so this wasn't my first rodeo. I didn't plop, hop or otherwise drop into it... I never do. It had about fifteen trail nights on it and a few more in the back yard. It showed no signs of distress or damage.. it lust failed in the middle and the rupture went right up to the side seams.
Immediately packed up everything, snapped a few pictures and was ready to hike out.. Fortunately we had met a few other hangers at camp, and were under two miles from where they parked. One of them had a spare hammock so I hiked out to their car and back, salvaging the trip. The hammock... Not so much. It's trash.
The upside is I got to try 1.0 Hexon for the first time and liked it quite a bit.
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