Going to sleep and waking in a hammock is a blast but clearly I was doing something wrong. I used a Feathered Friends Flicker as an underquilt, which worked pretty well but the head side seemed to sag so it didn't offer as much insulation around the shoulders. My top quilt was just a fleece blanket and it was a lot colder than I'd expected. Slept mostly on my back, which is interesting because I'm usually a side sleeper. I tended to tuck my legs, sometimes in a lotus position while laying back and sometimes fetal kind of off to the side. Not sure how much sleep I got, but it started raining around 5am and I hadn't set up a tarp so I went back inside (I was just in my backyard to try it out). I used my eno doublenest since I'm still waiting on some 1.6oz hyperd to make an 11 footer. My neck is really killing me today. I had a camping pillow, and I don't think I was as flat as I ought to be because it feels like I slept all hunched forward. Having a ridgeline might have helped with that but I still need to make one. The doublenest is only 9 1/3 feet long and I'm 5'9" so maybe that had something to do with it. All in all, it was a good experience but not a good night's sleep. Also, does alcohol hit harder in a hammock?
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