I just made a new set of TQ/UQ using 7.5 oz climashield apex and slept outside past two nights. The first night, it was miserable. I was absolutely cold and had some bad cold spots around my legs and knees. I called it quits about 3:30 am and the temperature was 35F. I didn't understand why my back was warm but not my legs. Later that day, I asked my wife to feel between the hammock and UQ and apparently I had an air gap between the UQ and my hammock at my knees. My hammock made somewhat of a calf ridge there. It's a gathered end hammock. I also would, at times, get a cold spot on my neck. I then artificially made a neck ridge and I then had an air gap there. So it clicked, anywhere I had a ridge in the hammock there was an air gap and that created a cold spot. I was wondering why my UQ would go from warm to cold and back to warm but now I figured it out, I needed to get rid of my calf ridge and neck ridge however slight they may be. So last night I made sure to forcibly work out the ridges while I slept especially the times I woke up with a cold spot on my neck and my knees/calf area. Also, I tightened up my suspension overall. I slept warm last night and was comfortable and didn't come inside until 6am. As matter of fact, I got hot at some point and even had to kick off the TQ, briefly before I started to freeze again. The overnight low was 38F.
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