is this derigible available or a plan availlable for diy
is this derigible available or a plan availlable for diy
I am using a HH explorer ultralite and a HG incubator and want to protect the underquilt from the weather what is the best solution. I was thinking of hanging my poncho under the UQ to keep wind driven rain or splash off of it but a sock would have more benefits. I dont have the sewing skills so an off the shelf sock would be the first choice.
I've used this sock several nights - 45/50F windy and 28F calm night. Blocks the wind well. Didn't see any heat retention on the calm 28F night.
I also used it with a Jarbridge Apex UQ and it fit nicely - sock did help to retain heat in the UQ.
I need to improve on the draw string area - too much of a gap at the bottom (2") and my shoulders are only 1/2 covered. Overall - breaths well, no condensation, and a tad over 8 oz.
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Thanks for the tutorial! I stumbled on this bass akwards after trying a night ground tarping.
Long time hammocker but I was doing a single night overnighter bike-packing and because of the climbing and technical terrain involved I wanted to get as light as possible so I decided to ground sleep... BUT my old gortex bivy needed to be re-seam sealed after being in storage for years so I switched gears and got thinking about UL tarps... somehow because of my experiences with emergency bivies and condensation issues I realized if I brought a single white trash bag as a "foot bivy" for my 6'4" height I could use my golite poncho tarp or virtually any small tarp I chose instead of some huge long thing like my huge ENO Housefly. Eureka! The trip was a success! (Though I sleep way better in a hammock.) The key thing my njght of grkund tarping taught me was I don't always need my humungus ENO tarp to hammock! With a simple "rain sock" / "foot bivy" / "pea pod" / "rain skirt" i can get much more warmth and protection out of my smaller and much lighter tarps! The crazy part is because of my bug net in the summer and underquilt in the winter I need almost zero extra rigging because the sock ajoins these lines to form a drip proof barrier. If all my experiments go well with glorified trash bags and eventually higher breathing tyvek and silnylon I may eventually add a shirt sock to the head of my hammock as well. I suspect these will add warmth in the winter and can easily be pushed back when its not stormy in the summer to reduce condensation.
Your tutorials here and follow up with what worked and didn't have confirmed I am moving in the right direction and no doubt saved me countless hours of experimenting! Thank you! I need to find more tall guy tricks. I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner!
Cheers to trying new things! Like sleeping on the ground for a night to teach me new tricks so I can be a better hanmock'r! Now I can use all those "too short" hammock tarps I have been avoiding for years!
Last edited by mmeiser; 11-06-2019 at 04:30.
This old sock/pod is still in use. Over 100 nights and quite worn, but the Tyvek has held up well.
The tutorial doesn't mention the V neck cut out (top 15%) I ended up doing.
I did make a 2nd out of a grey car cover - it is a little bulkier than the soft tyvek but lighter because I used less tyvek tape - it also works well.
I do get a lot of questions from my (tent camper) fishing buddies on why I use a sock/pod and small tarp vs just a large tarp. This combo blocks all wind, adds about 10F heat retention, and I just like a DIY experiment that meets my need so well.
On a side note, I had a hammock seam start to come apart once while remote area camping, so for safety I used this as a Bivy on the ground. It worked as good as my Heavy/bulkie Goretex Bivy.
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