Hello all, I'm fairly new to the hammock world and have no plans to sleep on the ground again. I recently had my 1st experience with a hard rain all night. My setup (Chameleon, HG 11ft dyneema tarp) did pretty good but I got a ton of splash back or blow in. My tyvek sheet that I keep under hammock for shoes and stuff was soaked as well as my shoes. I was using a UQ protector (1st time using one so not 100% was set perfect) and got just a small spot on UQ was damp. My wife was on her 1st ever hammock trip and was in WB BB with superfly tarp. She had no slash back and was dry under her hammock
That said, my tarp was set about eye level and pitched at a more straight down angle (narrow at the bottom, doors almost overlapped) My thinking for doing it narrow was to keep the sides lower, closer to the ground. Now I'm feeling that maybe a wider pitch would be better to give more distance from the edge of the tarp to the hammock to help with splash back. The down side is there would be a little more height in the bottom of the tarp to allow blow in.
All-in-all, for hard, hard rain from around 11pm till 6am I was pretty happy with how dry we stayed.
Anyway, when you know it's going to be hard rain, what are some tips for pitching the tarp to help prevent splash back and blow in?
Thanks for any tips you may have.
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