Does anyone else sleep on the ground when out and about or is it just me that does not like to be suspended at waist height all night?
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I do both!
but!!! I always get a stiff back on the ground so I try and avoid now must be my age 
It all depends on the place - rough/boggy ground = hammock.
Nice level dry ground = ground.
In summer I tend to go to ground as I can sleep in the "starfish" position if I get too warm!
Nice level dry ground = ground.
In summer I tend to go to ground as I can sleep in the "starfish" position if I get too warm!
Ground for me too. Tried the hammock, not for me. Only so many times you can put up with the hammock wrestle after a midnight pee.
I recently bought an alpkit hunka for testing, I found it ok, but much prefer the hammock for comfort. I think it will just depend on what mood im in and where I go what ill take in future. I can pritty much sleep anywhere.
I love sleeping in my hammock, in fact so much so that I felt compelled to write this short song 'Living on the Ceiling' about hammocking back in the 80's. I then made the mistake of sharing it with vocalist Neil Arthur from British synthpop band Blancmange in a pub in Harrow, who subsequently plagarised it for a well known song.
You keep me running the hammock lines round and round, [I use a round turn and two half hitches]
Well, that's alright with me
Up and down, I'm up the wall, I'm up the bloody tree
That's alright with me, yeah, that's alright with me
Well, it feels alright to me, yeah, it looks alright to me [but my advice would be to check the knots before you get in]
And I'm so tall, I'm so tall
You raise me and then you let me fall
I'm so small, I'm so small
Wrap me round your finger, see me fall
Here we go......:
Neil and I have not spoken since, although he does send me a Christmas card each year. True Story.
You keep me running the hammock lines round and round, [I use a round turn and two half hitches]
Well, that's alright with me
Up and down, I'm up the wall, I'm up the bloody tree
That's alright with me, yeah, that's alright with me
Well, it feels alright to me, yeah, it looks alright to me [but my advice would be to check the knots before you get in]
And I'm so tall, I'm so tall
You raise me and then you let me fall
I'm so small, I'm so small
Wrap me round your finger, see me fall
Here we go......:
Neil and I have not spoken since, although he does send me a Christmas card each year. True Story.
As said before, both depends on what and where, but I do prefer my hammock (1 of 3).
Aaron,
Sorry mate but I dont beleive a word. Damd good song though. Radio version had the edit and Cukoo was used in place of bloody! Never seen a cukoo tree.
Aaron,
Sorry mate but I dont beleive a word. Damd good song though. Radio version had the edit and Cukoo was used in place of bloody! Never seen a cukoo tree.
Gotta be carefull about saying I swing both ways
Love the hammock all through the year with my modified Ogripod, also enjoy the warmth of the Laavu and woodstove - it just depends on the situation I find myself in.
ATB
Ogri the trog
Love the hammock all through the year with my modified Ogripod, also enjoy the warmth of the Laavu and woodstove - it just depends on the situation I find myself in.
ATB
Ogri the trog
I usually sleep wrapped in the arms of the great mother of us all. Never felt the desire to sleep in the air. Plus my historical "camping" leads away from those 1700's and 1800's naval/sailor things.
And YES, I've slept in all conditions on the ground - mud, snow, rock, sand, with grass/leaf padding, even froze solid ground and freezing slush in an old cornfield. Some was comfortable, some was not, and some you just endured/survived. Altho, I do try hard to keep parts of me out of flowing water.
And in HOT weather, that "starfish" style sleeping while sky-clad helps - if the breeze keeps the bugs away and you can put up with all the laughter from the women folk (who seldom seem to follow the example).
Mikey - yee ol' grumpy blacksmith out in the Hinterlands
And YES, I've slept in all conditions on the ground - mud, snow, rock, sand, with grass/leaf padding, even froze solid ground and freezing slush in an old cornfield. Some was comfortable, some was not, and some you just endured/survived. Altho, I do try hard to keep parts of me out of flowing water.
And in HOT weather, that "starfish" style sleeping while sky-clad helps - if the breeze keeps the bugs away and you can put up with all the laughter from the women folk (who seldom seem to follow the example).
Mikey - yee ol' grumpy blacksmith out in the Hinterlands
"And in HOT weather, that "starfish" style sleeping while sky-clad helps - if the breeze keeps the bugs away and you can put up with all the laughter from the women folk (who seldom seem to follow the example)." MA
The traditional image of a starfish has five limbs....
The traditional image of a starfish has five limbs....
Tried a Hammock several times but never got around to buying myself one - fancy one of those trick ones with tarp etc but....as I said. Ground all the time..
Steve
Ive been using hammock and tarp for a while now but went out last month with just a wool blanket and poncho and had a great nights sleep,but ill use the hammock when the grounds wet.
SimonM
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I spent a night on the ground in front of a fire with Bernies' feet to rest my head on the last weekend. Bernie was busy cooking himself! We were limited to the distance we could get as it was the barbeque brick thingy at Hill Holt Wood and it is under a lean to. You should be a full pace and a half away from a fire to keep warm but not fry yourself. We were about a half pace away! I had two blankets and a thermarest, Bernie roughed it with his Confederate sleeping system of a woolen blanket and oiled camvas waterproof cover. I woke up now and then to throw another log on the fire and keep the embers alive. Bernie woke up now and then to water the trees!
(coughs)
well you know what monkeys are prone to throw at you from the branches?
(they dont call it 'chimping' for nothing!)
