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    The Over 50 Gang

    I was wondering how many of us are over 50 and how hammock hanging has affected our camping experience?
    For me, hanging has afforded me more consectutive camping days and less time recovering from sore joints from sleeping on the ground. I can do longer sections now and I dont have to eat nearly the amount of Advil I used to. Oh.. I can carry more stuff in my pack than I used to also. Kinda makes me feel my youth came back in a way

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    I turned 54 two years ago, but I switched the digits, so now I am 47. I'll talk to you about it in three years!

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    I'm 53 and there are no signs of me slowing down. A few years ago I would lie on the ground waiting for the sun to come up so I can get up and stretch my aching bones. Now I sleep better on backpacking trips than I do at home.

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    Well it's definitely removed the "takes me a while to get moving" after crawling out of a tent. My vocabulary has improved ... from previously finding new ways to describe the @&#!#@ rock that crawled under me during the night. So yeah ... it's all plus plus.

    And it's just nice to have so many more options to camp than having to find that place you can pitch a tent. Something special about those hang sites over a river bank over rocks ...

    The only "draw back" and I don't see it as one ... it's so dang nice to lay back in your hammock ... watch the day awake and have a little breakfast from the hammock. I usually don't start the trail day as soon as I use to. Bummer huh?

    OH ... and 56 ... so best not reverse any digits for awhile!
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    it's the 15 th. anniversary of my 39th birthday this year. i spent 110 days in a hammock last year. i wouldn't of made it 3 days on the ground. it's been fun and will have many more years, God willing.

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    Thumbs up Yep

    Switching the digits for me doesn't work and if I try it next year I would be 65..
    Slipping down out of the hammock is so much easier than trying to get up out of the tent. Much more comfortable.

    cgul

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    well, I hit 32 this year, (if you are counting in Hexidecimal....)
    sleep is better, but colder, since haven't found a way to get next to my DH all night long- just have to take more covers. under-covers that is..
    also discovered the miracle of foam earplugs (how did I survive without them?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by KerMegan View Post
    ...foam earplugs (how did I survive without them?)
    I am reluctant to use them, 'cause then I would miss all the coyote songs. I am really getting to like them, especially since they relocate and give you different sounds during the night.

    In Big Bend, we had coyotes as well as owls. It was a wonderful chorus!

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    54 here. Hanging allows me to sleep better and to wake without an aching back. So I guess it'll prolong the years that I can still do it. I always look forward to getting out in the woods and that's a good thing

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    I hit 50 in 2008, & my story is much like others here... remembering how it was trying to sleep well on 2, even 3 pads when I went camping & still waking up stiff & sore in the morn.
    One extra bonus for me though was the how much better I slept in a hammock w/ the scar tissue from two back surgeries in 2002 & 2003.
    But unfortunately, it was early 2005 before I discovered the hammock.
    I too will something make and joy in it's making

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