Just another reason I like backpacking and wilderness areas!
Just another reason I like backpacking and wilderness areas!
Thats the problem,lack of knowledge like was said they think of a rope net hammock held with chains and or nails.
"We the people" need to educate thoes who dont know.So maybe next time they say no to hammocks just ask if you can demonstrate hoe its hung and emphasis that the webbing doesn't hurt the trees.
There just trying to preserve the trees so there isn't a bunch of dying trees from bark being striped off of it.
Has anyone thought that Parks might want you camp in a particular place ( tent pad, RV parking area) as opposed to somewhere kind of close to your camp site?
I have also seen LEOs evicting a group of people trying to make a "camping unit" out of old lumber, plywood and blue tarps. Hammers and nails were involved in that incidence.
Wow I'm getting on an old thread here but I was just reading up on rules for the Alabama State Parks and find this thread still quite relevant.
But I digress. When the photograph was taken there were probably plenty of cars going by and lots of people moving around. The way to make all that invisible, and only capture stationary objects in the photo, is to use a very dark neutral density filter coupled with a very long exposure (with the camera on a very good tripod), so that moving objects such as autos trucks people etc. don't show up in the final capture. Its a great technique to use for shots of public buildings, inside museums, and the like where the action never stops but you don't want people in the shot.
Hangin' round beats on the ground...
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Bob
Old thread indeed, but had an interesting "positive" experience regarding hammocks not being camping units this weekend up at Desoto State Park. When I was checking in and getting out site, I told him there would be 4 "tents", as I had used hammocks before with no problems and did not really want to get into a discussion about how crazy I was to sleep in a hammock in 28 degree weather at that moment, so figured we would call them "tents" for now and move on. Anyway, the rule is 2 camping units per site, so I said I need 2 sites. As he was ringing things up, since for some reason he has to enter one site at a time in their system, we were making small talk...and I mentioned that at least 2 of us slept in hammocks. The ranger working the counter looked up and said "Hammocks, well those are not tents are they?" My first thought was "Crap, I am going to have trouble now". So, I say "Well, that's what I use as a tent, so I consider it my tent". His response was, "Well, if it don't look like that picture on the rule sheet of a tent, I ain't gonna charge you for it. If you only have 2 tents and 2 hammocks, then you only need one site for the weekend."
I was quite pleased with that outcome, saved me some money. Not sure all the rangers interpret the rules that way...but he did.
"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln
That would have had me border line flipping out.
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