My experience with Hammocks: Grear: - Wilderess logic Tadpole tarp with door kit - Dutch hexon 11' hammock with fixed ridge line (highly recommend the fixed RL!) and fronkey net - Hammock Gear Incubator under quilt - Sleeping bag or poncho liner or light blanket - Dutch extra long kevlar straps that I attach via marlin spike knot.
Pros: - Most confortable sleep ever. In hammock I sleep on back even though I am a stomach sleeper. - Vastly superior in the rain. You are above the wet not in the wet. - Gear stays cleaner - If you set up tarp first you can do the rest in the dry - Modular, depending on conditions I will not use certain elements of the kit - Allows you to often find a spot that tent campers can't use Cons: - Takes longer to set up perfectly - I am fickle about that. Hammock takes about 20 minutes start to finish, my tent is ready in 5. - You can't comfortable share a hammock - Needs trees or similar - Full kit is bulkier and heavier than my solo tent setup - Getting in and out is a little bit more annoying. Like when you are perfectly comfy and then realise you need to use the bathroom kinda sucks. - You need to get a little more creative when it comes to gear storage, but there are plenty of solutions. I use a ridge line organizer and a tivek sheet on the ground or a just clip stuff to the tree straps. - Learning curve. - Temptation to mess with setup. - Can get expensive fast All in all I am 60/40 in terms of hammock/tent use. I vastly prefer the hammock, but sometimes it just does not work out. Hope this helps! Clayton Scott SF, CA On Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 8:29:43 AM UTC-7, Brett Callahan wrote: > > Hi all, I'm heading out this weekend for a 2 day trip with some friends > and planning to take a hammock and inflatable pillow instead of my usual > tent setup that I use for backpacking. The only other times I've camped via > bike I've lugged the tent, but I'm going for lighter this time around. > I've a tarp to string above the hammock in case of light rain, and if the > forecast calls for anything more than that, I'll scrap this plan and bring > a tent. > > Seeing as there seems to be a pretty big cross section between Riv riders > and bike campers, I wondered if anyone has any tips to share? I'm > specifically asking for tips for a first time hammock camper, but if anyone > has any great tips for camping via bike in general, I'm happy to take those > as well. > > Also, I realize the "Riv-content" of this post is pretty loose, so if it's > not appropriate, someone let me know and I'll delete. > > Cheers, > Brett > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
