Been meaning to post this up for awhile now (couple months ) but I checked back over the log I kept, I know crazy, right?! and it seems that out of 365 nights I slept outside on 268 of them.
This all started when I saw the "12 nights" thread and though "that's a great idea!" Even the talk of some kind of patch or other form of recognition seemed cool. Then I realized "wait, that's not even two weeks and I'm a pretty hardcore outdoors person" so I started logging how many nights I actually slept outside in my hammocks.
The nights missed are from sleeping in my lady's rig, or during vending trips when there was no where to hang, or at my mom's place in a retirement community, and on some kayaking trips.
Because of those trips I made a few versions of single, and double, pole stands. Finally I bought the Tensa Solo after too many kayak trips where I saw the opportunity to use one tree but two trees the right distance apart and nothing in between, near a river or lake in the SW desert . . . not happening. So now I expect my non-outdoor nights to decrease even more.
So far I've been out in snow, some good rain storms, a hurricane, and when the daytime temps were at 115°. I've also hung in some pretty industrial places where scrap metal and rolled up fencing was under me in addition to some great wilderness spots.
Here's to finally being able to do the thing that I fell in love w/ while traveling Central America and living in a Mayan net hammock almost 30 years ago.
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