Just wanted to stop by and say hi. I live in Rochester MN I’ve recently decided to take the plunge into hammocking rather than a tent. This forum was super helpful in finding information in making the switch. I’ve been backpacking/camping/fishing since I was little. Nothing super hard core I just love the outdoors and enjoy sharing that with my wife and kids.
As of recent I have had a lot of trouble with sleeping on the ground on a pad. I even invested in a Seatosummit Ether light XT in a Rec Large to try to help because I sleep on my side. I am not a light dude at 5”11 and 220lbs and constantly had shoulder and hip pain in the morning from bottoming out. So that’s my story on what brought me here
I’ve always kept a small cheap compressible hammock with my when I go camping/backpacking but quickly realized this would not suffice as a sleeping hammock based on its length.
After a lot of reading I ended up with the following
- Blackbird XLC single layer in the purple dream-Tex nylon
- superfly tarp 11’ in the silpoly
-enlightened equipment 50deg TQ
- apex UQ kit (nylon shell and interior with insulation to get it to 20degrees. I do a decent amount of early spring trout fishing and it’s snowed a few times and gotten below freezing) from ripstopbytheroll to sew together myself. I would have preferred a down quilt for packing small but I didn’t want to invest the money just yet and I was struggling to find anything that was going to ship anytime soon 😂
anyways really looking forward to setting this all up and trying it out.
happy adventures!
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Originally Posted by FLTurtle
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