What I currently own:
* 15*F Marmot Sawtooth Long bag
* Hennessy Hammock Deep Jungle XL
* Hennessy Hammock Double Buble Pad XL
* Therm-a-rest NeoAir UberLite Sleeping pad (r value 2.0)
* Paria Outdoors 12x10 hex cut tarp
* SOL Emergency Blanket
So I'm headed to Yosemite the 28th, 29th and 30th of October where weather lows could be 33-42*F. If I started my hike from Tuolomne Meadows instead of staying in the valley, October's low averages are 24*F and November are 16*F.
I'm wondering, if I wanted to camp in my hammock would I need to buy a bunch of new things? My gut reaction is this would be a bit too chilly to camp in comfortably with my current setup. I did use the above setup at Rainier in August and found myself to be pretty warm into the 50s/40s (I didn't have a thermometer, or rather didn't think to use my watch to measure actual temperature using barometric pressure) except for when my feet slipped off the pad that I had in my pad. I found that closing the bug net around me prevented the pad from slipping out and I slept toasty after that. To be clear, I had hammock set up, then put the pad on top of the hammock and then struggled a bit to get into my sleeping bag where I slept above the NeoAir pad.
Since my hammock is double layered I did try to get the neoair pad in between the two layers but I probably had it over inflated; and I'm not sure it would fit. UPDATE: I tried under inflating it, inserting it then inflating it the rest of the way and it fits great! AWESOME! Will be doing that next time.
To be honest, I'm a little apprehensive of hammock camping in such conditions. I have done some cold weather camping in general (in a tent) but not lots.
I was also thinking of using the emergency blanket and clothespinning it to the hammock ridge line so as to trap some of the heat I generate.
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