Hey all!
I'm a total newbie, and hammockless at that, on here to read up and try to determine what would work best for me.
I HAD a HH safari deluxe, but... the then-gf wanted to share it with me but we didn't fit well. In the middle of the night, we woke up cold and on the ground, the hang was pronounced a failure and the hammock shelved indefinitely.
Well, we broke up n she kept it for reasons I can't fathom, so now i'm looking for something smaller and maybe a bit more "me".
I currently tour Oregon and Washington on my cbr250 with a 5# tent, 9.5# go-cot, air mattress and sleeping bag. Given that my steed is so small and packing room so minimal, i'm looking to cut that down a bit. My back and joints require the cot if i'm on the ground, though, so I'm coming back to the hammock idea.
I'm small (5'4") and light (125#) so size isn't a limitation as mich as just needing flexibility in maybe having to set up my hammock on the ground as a bivy sometimes if there aren't workable trees at my site.
My present short list (though I'm still all ears) is a double layer Dream Darien or Nighthawk with multicam Tadpole tarp, whoopies, and ccf+reflectix pad. I tend to sleep cold, but if I need to set up on the ground, I'd rather have a pad under me than an UQ.
Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome!
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