Hello
Thank you for all your posts and comments I read while I was preparing to my first winter trip with a hammock!
A few words about how I started hammocks era of my life.
I got my Ticket To The Moom 320x200cm (real size seems to be about 305x185) hammock a couple years ago just for some daytime resting during cycling trips and to use it on my balcony. It's wide ('double') version because I wanted a hammock big enough for me, my wife and our 4 years old (now) daughter (not for sleeping, just for fan). 20170512-DSC_4581.JPG
Then I tried to sleep in the hammock on a balcony and on my parent's backyard (they live in Ukraine and I spend a few there when I have a chance to visit them). I liked this kind of outside sleeping and slept many summer night in the hammock. Last summer I started to use the hammock to sleep in the middle of a forest and later during a fall I spent a night (it was about +5°C) in the hammock with my 4 years old daughter 20181014-DSC_6784-2.jpg This is when I decided that I really like sleeping in a hammock and I will rarely use my tent again. I used to sleep in a tent in The Carpathian and The Crimean mountains in Ukraine. This is where hammock is not a choice, because I usually slept above tree line and often in extreme weather conditions - strong wind, heavy rain and snow. But mountains is not the only good place for traveling and this means I'm going to use my hammock for most of my trips now. I already tested the hammock in winter conditions. And I'm going to spend 3 more nights in Sweden at the end of the February and I think it's a beginning of a new era of my life! Era of Hammocks
As a suspension system I use webbing + whoopie sling with a carabiner between them. I do not use under and top quilts for now, just sleeping pads and bags. My tarp is Ticket To The Moom 248x248cm. So far I'm happy with this setup. For sure I will need one more (ultralight) hammock. I'll use either one of the hammocks while traveling alone and I'll use both of them when my daughter is with me. I want to try DYI hang spacers using tent poles for two trees / two hammocks hang.
My wife still prefers tents to hammocks for night sleeping, but who knows, maybe she also will want a hammock.
I also will need a bigger tarp for extreme weather conditions and one more mosquito net (for the second hammock). But for now I decided that I don't need any additional insulation for this winter. Maybe before the next winter I'll think about under and top quilts, but for now I'm happy with sleeping pad + sleeping bag setup. See my first report here https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...mmockChallenge
I read the hammockforums to get a lot of information about hammocks while I was preparing to my first winter hang and I'll be glad to share my growing hammock experience with all members and visitors of the hammockforums.
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