![]() You’ll also need a tarp big enough to sling over a ridge rope or guy out over the hammock, and in some seasons or geographical areas a bug net as well. For winter camping, serious hammockers sling a loose, fluffed up quilt under the hammock to retain even more heat. You’ll also need a foam or inflatable mat to lie on in the hammock you lose most body heat where your weight presses against the hammock skin and moving air under the hammock will chill you like a fridge if you’re not properly insulated. Avoid tropical-style netting or heavy fabric garden hammocks to sleep out comfortably you need a lightweight fabric skin and a proper attachment system using ropes and knots or webbing and clips. If you haven’t used hammocks before and don't know how to use a hammock, what do you need? Start with something simple – it’ll be cheap, more than adequate for many trips and it’s a great way to learn key techniques. Sites I was able to use included slopes far too steep to have bivvies on, inside hay barns and, once, suspended over six inches of water in a marshy wood. Given my need to travel light across Europe’s forests, high ground and farmland it was a smart choice, ensuring reasonable nights sleep off the damp ground. That interest has led to more hammock manufacturers, new design innovations, arsenals of accessories, and above all, an expansion in skills and techniques, all of which are now spreading across the globe as growing numbers of people in other regions try hammock camping for themselves.įor a midwinter, 500-mile walk between Munich and Paris I slept out every night in snow, rain and gales using a home-sewn light-weight hammock, a foam mat, a very inadequate 2-season sleeping bag and a poncho-tarp. ![]() Hammock sleeping has had a big following across North America for some time, where it’s often the lightweight choice for long-distance trail walking, backwoods trips, or for getting above the snow in winter camping. Hammock campingĬompared to the hot climate, jungle version, modern hammock camping in temperate weathers and through all the seasons is a relatively new and more complex activity. All of the great apes, our cousins, weave ‘hammocks’ out of pliant branches to sleep on, high off the ground. It’s not just us humans who appreciate a night swinging in the trees, either. They’re cooler, as well, and being held aloft in a soft cradle of netting or fabric is luxury compared to a night on the hard earth. In hot and humid places, and especially in jungles, hammocks are the smart technology for raising yourself in the air, so you’re not sharing your bed with snakes, scorpions and spiders. Anyone who’s travelled in South and Central America, parts of Asia, or just lounged around on tropical beaches will have already done some hammock swinging and know how comfortable they can be.
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