Hammock underblanket --- Group Buy
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MagiKelly
Making memories since '67
Hi I'm going nowhere particularly cold, but plenty of different places across the UK.
This weekend in the peak district, next in the lakes, mid-june brecon, late june sussex. Mid july sunny scotland, then the lkes and noth wales. Dartmoor in August.
I can certainly give you a good idea of how it will perform in a variety of micro-climates, and the weather will usually provide me with plenty of rain(why me??) as I have only managed 2 dry camps in the last 2 years (okay each was aa week long) and have a HH ultralight, so a cool(temperature) hammock.
Let me know, and as I stated earilier, I'll still be up for buying 1, come on SP get the prototypes completed so we can benefit from a working model by Sep.
Steve
This weekend in the peak district, next in the lakes, mid-june brecon, late june sussex. Mid july sunny scotland, then the lkes and noth wales. Dartmoor in August.
I can certainly give you a good idea of how it will perform in a variety of micro-climates, and the weather will usually provide me with plenty of rain(why me??) as I have only managed 2 dry camps in the last 2 years (okay each was aa week long) and have a HH ultralight, so a cool(temperature) hammock.
Let me know, and as I stated earilier, I'll still be up for buying 1, come on SP get the prototypes completed so we can benefit from a working model by Sep.
Steve
I would be interested in an underquilt (price depending !).
I bought a US poncholiner to use as a underquilt with my henny . I just havnt got brave enough to cut and stitch it , or come up with a design that works . allthough if tied to the inside of your basha it does warm the inside a tad as it helps to reduce heat loss .
Pumbaa
I bought a US poncholiner to use as a underquilt with my henny . I just havnt got brave enough to cut and stitch it , or come up with a design that works . allthough if tied to the inside of your basha it does warm the inside a tad as it helps to reduce heat loss .
Pumbaa
I was away camping with my hammock last month and it was bloody freezing...well, I did have to test out my new insect net lol.
Definalty count me in for 1, maybe 2 under blankets if the goup buy goes ahead
Definalty count me in for 1, maybe 2 under blankets if the goup buy goes ahead
i'm in. i was looking at making one, but if someone else is going to make one (and it'll probably be better than anything i could make) i might as well.
I've been trying to resist spending any more cash on things like this but it's going to happen in the end
Count me in - to which I have to add - price dependant.
Ogri the trog
Count me in - to which I have to add - price dependant.
Ogri the trog
Also interested; I was going to buy one from KAQ but if you can get it cheaper / quicker and it's at least as good, I'm in. No time to make one these days...
Just need more places to hang the hammock, since I found out that public sites won't allow them!
Just need more places to hang the hammock, since I found out that public sites won't allow them!
I'm interested, but as I sit here waiting for my first hammock to arrive (can't wait Magikelly! 
) I've no experience of trying to keep warm in a hammock!
My own (uneducated and assumptive! ) thoughts on the topic - Why can't you use a sleeping bag/ with a thermarest inside it if it's cold? :bluThinki
I can't wait to be enlightened!
Phil
) I've no experience of trying to keep warm in a hammock! My own (uneducated and assumptive!
) thoughts on the topic - Why can't you use a sleeping bag/ with a thermarest inside it if it's cold? :bluThinki I can't wait to be enlightened!
Phil
you can, and many of us do. (i use a thermarest andsleeping bag in a bivvi bag in bad weather)
the underquilt is simpler and lends itself to using with a quilt instead of a sleeping bag.
the underquilt is simpler and lends itself to using with a quilt instead of a sleeping bag.
MagiKelly
Making memories since '67
As Graham says a thermarest in your sleeping bag works great but an underblanket is way more comfortable.
I have a Gelert self inflating mat, but what I found was that the mat is just a bit norrower than my shoulders. So when in hammock the sides of hammock compress my bag in the shoulder area giving cold shoulders in the night. It also tends to move a bit in the night, I'm a restless sleeper, or so the wife says. I dont notice it myself.
Ian.
Ian.
Ian,
Certainly interested dependant on price and Magikelly claiming the last of my cash if his tarp group buy goes ahead
Red
Certainly interested dependant on price and Magikelly claiming the last of my cash if his tarp group buy goes ahead
Red
WanderinStar
Hope all is well, any news or progress from your man at snugpak?
Cheers.
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If you pile your clothing round the sides of your sleeping bag inside the hammock that adds a little more insulation and acts as a great windbreak. Though its always better to have the windbreak on the outside of the hammock, and you can add clothing, dry grass etc as insulation.
I was going to buy a hennessy undercover and blanket, Magikelly how did yours perform??
Hope all is well, any news or progress from your man at snugpak?
Cheers.
___________________________________________________________
If you pile your clothing round the sides of your sleeping bag inside the hammock that adds a little more insulation and acts as a great windbreak. Though its always better to have the windbreak on the outside of the hammock, and you can add clothing, dry grass etc as insulation.
I was going to buy a hennessy undercover and blanket, Magikelly how did yours perform??
