Short version: The Amok Draumr is easy to setup but harder to get into. You have to centre yourself head to toe in the hammock or risk tilting down at either end. It's as comfortable for side sleepers as back sleepers. Finally inflating your air pad in your nice warm house before moving it out into the cold isn’t as good an idea as you think it is.
The Longer one: I just bought a Draumr 5.0 in camo with grey Skjold 10 tarp a couple weeks ago from a gent whose dog apparently decided camping wasn’t for them.
Set it up in the yard after filling the Big Agnes insulated Air Core in the house. Even after dark set up was easy, getting in, not as much. There’s a reason Jonas specs a heavy fabric for the footbox. It takes a bit of practice to figure out the lay. Migrate to the foot end and the hammock tilts that way. Ditto for the head end. Gravity isn’t your friend as you grab the side straps to manoeuvre yourself to the balance point.
Sleeping on your side is as easy & as comfortable as sleeping on your back, but switching sides causes a weird short period (small & fast) side to side bounce. I didn't try sleeping on my stomach.
Even though the rated R4.5 of the pad should be good to around -15 C (5 F) I soon started feeling cold although the temperature only dropped to 6C. After an hour or two the pad was stating to feel, well, flaccid. When I pulled the pad from the hammock it was definitely under-inflated, Great I thought, my new pad has a leak on the first night. Then ‘maybe it’s the cold?’ Brought it in to warm up, it came back to the it's original tension. All in all a really great hammock, it still needs some practice to get the best from it.
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