i started out hammocking in may 2002 in a hennessey 1.6 ultralite backpacker
i only hammocked during warmer months 2002,2003,then in the fall of 2004 i decided i was going to be a 4 season hammocker.
i started out hammocking in may 2002 in a hennessey 1.6 ultralite backpacker
i only hammocked during warmer months 2002,2003,then in the fall of 2004 i decided i was going to be a 4 season hammocker.
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I think it has been 3-4 years but I can't remember exactly. I started using a hammock not long after finding White Blaze. My first hammock was a HH ULBA.
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." -Terry Pratchett
February of 2007.
Still pissed it took me so long to find out. Somebody had a signature here when I first joined that said "Why didn't anybody tell me I didn't have to sleep on the ground". I always liked that one.
going into my third year now- and wishing i started much sooner as well!!
I rounded up to 2 years. It's been about 1 year and 9 months... Wow, time really flies!
"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities." - Mark Twain
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” - John Burroughs
One weekend in 1964 in a military jungle hammock followed by a 43 year hiatus probably doesn't count for any more than the time spent with my HH since July '07. So... less than one year. But, one year and counting on more with no hiatus.
The first year I camped in a hammock was in 1964 at Bass Lake, California. Pitched it up with a view of the lake and set up a rope to a stake that I would use to get it rocking after climbing in. Don't ever remember it stopping.
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I started in 2002, after I met Hammock Hanger on Springer Mountain on New Year's Eve of 2001 when I was finishing up a fall through winter section hike of the Bartram Trail up to Cheoah Bald and the AT back to Springer Mountain. I had recently thru hiked the Appalachian Trail and when Hammock Hanger mentioned backpacking with a hammock it sounded like an interesting way to get through the White Mountains of New Hampshire if I ever backpacked the AT through there again.
Last edited by Youngblood; 12-07-2007 at 12:09.
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Rounded up to 2 years. Like NCPatrick, 1 year 9 months.
Almost one year...BTW, welcome to the board, Youngblood!! You are a great designer!
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