How many of you exit the hammock during the middle of the night when nature calls? Asking for a friend.....
Seriously, depending on where I am camping and the location of my shoes and pack, I have found a much more convenient method!
How many of you exit the hammock during the middle of the night when nature calls? Asking for a friend.....
Seriously, depending on where I am camping and the location of my shoes and pack, I have found a much more convenient method!
I consider the ability to open the bugnet and roll onto my side to be one of the great advantages of hammocking, and I'm certainly not alone in that sentiment.
But I have pissed on my shoes before. Let he who says he hasn't pass the first kidney stone.
Only when I’m not camping.
Two issues:
1. Pissing on the spot where I'll be making my breakfast in a few hours time doesn't appeal to me.
2. Pissing out of my hammock while half asleep in the middle of the night means there's a very good chance I'll get it on shoes, UQ, or pack. Even worse, I might fall out of hammock, possibly into a fresh pool of piss. Or my TQ might fall into the piss. Basically something bad will happen for sure, and I'll be pissed off.
Originally Posted by Baka Dasai
^^^^^ Exactly THIS ^^^^^
One good gust of wind can make for a mess of epic proportions.
I have never and will never lean out of the hammock to relieve myself. Get up and out, take a few steps away and get it done.
If you're NOT doing this, you could be missing some of the best views, and sensory rich experiences backcountry has to offer you. They don't call it 'Nature Calling' for no reason. Cloudless starry nights, nocturnal life making its' racket, maybe a visitor eyeing you from the dark woods.. even in deep winter, I'll get up when nature calls. Truly surprised at how few eyes are looking back at me.
I never scope out where I am going to go, because I don't always have to go. If am with another hiker, and hear them get up, it won't be long before I follow. It's a safety thing.. they'll get eaten first and my coast will be clear. I do like the idea of stomping out a path in the winter. That's a neat idea.
Last edited by MikekiM; 09-20-2020 at 09:45.
Yes, my pack weighs 70lbs, but it's all light weight gear....
Bob's brother-in-law
Sometimes in the glades when the bugs are really angry I’ll go in a Gatorade bottle. But never hang it out and go right in my camp.
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That's actually a pretty good excuse. Those skeeters down there can be horrendous.
Five Basic Principles of Going Lighter (not me... the great Cam Honan of OZ)
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” ~ Gen. George S Patton
Right now at 31 years old, I don't wake up to use the bathroom at night. But I don't feel super keen on peeing right in my camp.
So what is the much more convenient method?How many of you exit the hammock during the middle of the night when nature calls? Asking for a friend.....
Seriously, depending on where I am camping and the location of my shoes and pack, I have found a much more convenient method!
Personally, I get up, walk a few feet downwind and take care of it.
This topic comes up often enough that it seems some people think it's a significant problem. OK then.
Five Basic Principles of Going Lighter (not me... the great Cam Honan of OZ)
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” ~ Gen. George S Patton
At one point I spent the time to compile all the pee/pee bottle/urinate more often threads. It was a few...maybe even a dozen.
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