I mostly kayak camp so I, as a minimum, carry a plastic ground sheet and a ¾ length Therm-a-rest pad as Plan-B. I’d probably do the same thing - maybe replace the Therm-a-rest with a lighter CCF blue pad - if hiking. If hiking several days, I’d use my hiking poles. When kayaking or on short hikes, I usually carry REI collapsible poles to use in porch mode or to tarp an eating area. In the photo below, I’m using poles from an older MSR tarp.
I lay the plastic on the ground, then the pad, then the hammock with built-in net. I use the poles to support a tarp and I tie the bugnet of the hammock to those poles so it is off my face.
The photo below was just an exercise at a beach on Blackberry Point. I told my adventure partner that my hammock could be used as a tent better than his tent could be used as a hammock.
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