Hi All,
I finally gave up lurking and decided to join up. It's been two years since I discovered what I was missing hammock camping. Like most others I was an avid tent camper, but that ground just kept getting harder and harder. My first year was spent on what worked for me. I loved the ease and simplicity of 1" straps and caribiners. 550 cord made up my tarp ridgeline and a quick tighten before I crawled in for the night seemed to hold up fine. I used my U.S. poncho as an asym tarp and it worked well even in inclement weather.
Then I found Shug...what can I say, what an ambassador for the hammocking community.
My wife thought I was crazy going out in -20 degree weather on a winter's night for a cold hang. She was probably right. I did use my ground pad, but my sleeping bag that said it was good down to -15 must have been talking centigrade. Even bundled up with my best thermals, a fleece balaclava and knit wool cap, I spent a rather unpleasant, although quiet, night. Better in my backyard than out in the woods away from civilization though, at least for my first cold hang.
Anyway, I finally talked my wife into hanging and just got her setup this week. I made my first Whoopie slings for the both of us and I've upgraded my suspension. We haven't made it out just yet due to the smokey dry conditions in our neck of the woods but I might just break her in out in the backyard. Plenty of time in the future to bring up my idea of a couples weekend cross country ski trip and hang to some hot springs I've heard of.
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