Originally Posted by
ricktreks
It sounds like either:
A- Your hammock was sagging too much, as in more towards a "U" shape, making your ridgeline too loose and droopy (this usually happens when the trees are too close to each other and people try to make their hammock fit between them anyway, or the suspensions are set up at an angle steeper than 30°).
or
B- The suspension was set up correctly making the ridgeline nice and taut, but you raised the hammock's foot end or the head end too much causing the ridgeline to ride on an incline.
The solution for A is to device a way to quickly gauge the distance between the trees, even before you pull your hammock out its sack. I for example do this by standing between the two trees and stretching my arms out while holding my trekking poles. If the tips of the poles touch the trees then I know the distance is too short for the length of my tarp, which in turn dictates where I can hang my hammock. Other people do it by measuring their steps between the trees.
The solution for B is to consistently set up the hammock leveled at first (the ridgeline should be horizontal and the suspensions ideally at 30°). If later you prefer to have the foot end a bit higher than the head end, you can slide the webbing up that tree a few inches, but always do this after you've found the mean horizontal line.
Hope that makes sense.
R
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