Hammocking

[SkyPainter]

Tim,

I take it you are using a mummy style bag, and wish to sleep in it al a traditional bag? You could just open it up as much as it goes, climb in, move the footbox around and slip your feet in, and then use the unzipped bag as a quilt draping it over you. Or, you could do what I do, and use a rectangular bag opened all the way, and then draped as a quilt.

Fer yer shoes, untie them, sit down, pull feet in, take shoes off, tie laces together, then slide one shoe over the ridgeline, drop the shoes through the entry and push all the ay forward. Shoes are outside, but suspended from the ridge, and under the hammock so they should stay dry.

====> EXACTLY what I have done the last two hangs, in the rain, and awoke to dry shoes in the AM! Good advice! Plus the little critters who love to chew on the laces for the salt are thwarted!

[tim_n]

I have a strange sleeping bag - it's half mummy half traditional in that it is rectangular (gives loads of room for my feet which mummy bags do not) and has a hood.

I now climb into my sleeping bag outside the hammock, sit back and swivel in as normal. The nylon makes it easy to pull myself up, but equally easy to slide down the hammock as well.

Footbox doesn't seem to work well when you're 6ft 4.5ins. My feet always tend to slip so I'm rarely at the optimum angle.

I had another go at hanging this weekend, but the sat night was pretty bad for sleeping. It may have been the ground dwelling brother in law 'snuggling' with his new lady friend and then copius snoring...