Hammock campers?

ripv2 said:
This year I spent my coldest night in a hammock. 22 degrees.

WB Blackbird
WB rainfly
WB yeti underquit
Thermorest ridgerest SOLite
Kelty light year 25
Sea to Summit extreme bag liner
SnugPak jungle blanket

Was surprised how comfortable I slept.
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Bit of a funny story... fell asleep all toasty warm, woke up at about sunrise -4 iirc with it snowing inside my tarp from the condensation just from breathing.
 
I spent last Saturday night at a retreat with some other fellas. I slept in my hammock outside, they bunked in a cabin.

It was 27 degrees according to my phone but I was toasty warm.

Yukon Outfitters hammock and Rainfly
OneTigris Underquilt from Amazon
Snugpak Hammock Cocoon
Snugpack Jungle blanket.

I'd have slept better if everybody else didn't have to get up to pee 6 times a night and slam the cabin door, but I slept well enough LOL. Wasn't cold at least......
 
rantingredneck said:
I spent last Saturday night at a retreat with some other fellas. I slept in my hammock outside, they bunked in a cabin.

It was 27 degrees according to my phone but I was toasty warm.

Yukon Outfitters hammock and Rainfly
OneTigris Underquilt from Amazon
Snugpak Hammock Cocoon
Snugpack Jungle blanket.

I'd have slept better if everybody else didn't have to get up to pee 6 times a night and slam the cabin door, but I slept well enough LOL. Wasn't cold at least......
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Funny how that is happening more and more as the years go bye
 
So an update to my gear:

WB Blackbird
WB Mountainfly
HG Phoenix and Burrow
2qzq UQP
Dutchware for the ridgeline and tie outs
 
rantingredneck said:
I spent last Saturday night at a retreat with some other fellas. I slept in my hammock outside, they bunked in a cabin.

It was 27 degrees according to my phone but I was toasty warm.

Yukon Outfitters hammock and Rainfly
OneTigris Underquilt from Amazon
Snugpak Hammock Cocoon
Snugpack Jungle blanket.

I'd have slept better if everybody else didn't have to get up to pee 6 times a night and slam the cabin door, but I slept well enough LOL. Wasn't cold at least......
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You just mad you got up to crap and could not preform!!!
 
Ok, I have to admit I got the hammock bug/illnes.
Around Thanksgiving I tried my son's eno for an afternoon nap, was so comfortable I decided to sleep outside in it overnight. I "camped out" in his a bunch up until Christmas when I got an eno double of my own, a bugnet, camp pillow, Onetigres UQ and pack rain cover from Santa. At the moment I am using a 10'x12' camouflage poly tarp drawn down tight with door flaps.
Now with my own gear I sleep out 3-4 nights a week as my wife allows. Between my bad back, her snoring and my insomnia sleeping out has really been a blessing. Coldest so far was 23, no problem at all. We had a few nights in the hi 50's and I was already wishing it was colder again, that doesn't bode well for the summer hammock season for me.


I know what I have is crap to the cottage, gram counting, hammock hiking purest but for the time being I sleep very well and am learning a lot. My intention is to make a bunch of my own stuff. I have a sewing machine and I'm not afraid to use it.
 
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MadMardigan said:
What ever you do @Johnny avoid Dutchware.

Seriously it’s bad for this habit. I mean, what’s a couple dollars here and there for some titanium bits...
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I have resisted the Dutch so far. I did purchase a Hang time hook from him and managed to check out with nothing else in my cart after having about $125 worth of crack in it.

I just ordered another cheap underquilt, this time a cottage industry one from Hang tight shop on etsy. I needed another one as the wife is supposed to hang with me at the bbq and then we will head off to some unimproved NF camping while we are "up north".
 
I'm a couple of weeks in with the Hang Tight underquilt from etsy. Best money I have spent on camping type stuff so far. It is super light, wicked packable, easy attachment and adjustment and plenty warm.

We are out in hammocks at Badin Lake tonight. Frost warnings just mean good sleeping.
 
Johnny said:
I'm a couple of weeks in with the Hang Tight underquilt from etsy. Best money I have spent on camping type stuff so far. It is super light, wicked packable, easy attachment and adjustment and plenty warm.

We are out in hammocks at Badin Lake tonight. Frost warnings just mean good sleeping.
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Bum

I did enjoy being in mine this past weekend. Gonna try to do that more from now on.
 
Spent 3 nights in mine this long weekend in the Smokies. Bought a hex tarp off Amazon. I am thrilled with how easy it is to set up, particularly after making a better tree suspension for it. The one it came with was suspect at best. It weathered rain and wind fine. Spent a night at an AT shelter. Traded one of the guys my sleeping pad so he could stay in the shelter and I used his under quilt.

Learned a few free lessons. Underquilts rock. Narrow under quilts suck though, I could not lay diagonal and it squeezed my shoulders in too much. So I need to pay attention to the width. And my bag slides around a lot without the pad in it. It got down into the upper 20's Sun night. I could probably make it a bit more comfortably with a lighters sleeping bag and over and under quilts or some such. The wind getting into my setup was a little annoying at times.
 
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