Tarps and bivy bags??

[Pablo]

Hammock and tarp as a preference but I take a bivvi as well if I don't know the area. You can get all three for under £100 if you look around.

Good thing about a bivvi is that it raises the temperature of your sleeping abg a few degrees. If you get a side opening bivi you can use it in the hammock as well.

Pablo

 

[Bogman10]

I choose tarp and Bivi, only because, here in Canada, it stays cool at night unless it's July or August.
Would like to try a hammock in summer though, in lake country it can stay hot during the night.

 

[Prophecy]

I'd absolutely love to be able to sleep in a hammock, but I can only sleep on my front!

I know - very sad...

 

[Chris G]

DD camping hammock and a Calstermans Outdoor Survival Store (ebay vendor) 3x3m tarp for me.
Interesting to see the voting is 50:50.

Chris

 

[Graham_S]

i always carry both options.
Hammock/tarp is always the favourite option, but it's handy to have a bivvy bag for when the weather closes in, and if I can't find decent trees.
adding a bivvi bag doesn't add much to the load, but adds incredibly to the versatility of your kit.

 

[John Fenna]

I tend to take both hammock and bivvi bag - especially if I am using a down bag when I think that a bivvi is essential to ensure the bag is not soaked by horizontal rain - which is very common in Wales! - though my bag is always WAY too heavy to carry!:umbrella:

 

[Nagual]

I've never used a hammock, I'm not sure I could sleep on my back I prefer side or front. I'll make one and find out next time order material. So far it's bivvi n tarp for me.


Nag.

 

[andy_e]

I'm a side-sleeper too and find the hammock very comfortable. There's a slight knack to getting comfortable - lying slightly on the diagonal usually.

If we're both at a meet-up sometime in the near future Nag, remind me and I'll bring one along for you to try.

 

[Chris G]

Nag, I'm a side sleeper as well. Trust me, being slightly foetal is very comfy in a hammock!

Chris

 

[spamel]

Someones' been voting on an ancient thread!

It's starting to bug me by now!

 

[ANDYRAF]

:welcome: C'mon Mr Spamel that's what they're for, at least people are doing the searches instead of starting the same threads again.

 

[discoveringtheforest]

Cant I go for the bivy and thermarest option? haha

I dont have a tarp or a hammock

 

[bigmul]

I use the Alpkit bivi bag and while it's a bit snugger than the army one, I've got no issues with it all. Use it with a Tatonka tarp 2 simple (3m x 3m) and me and my son have loads of room underneath it even with heave rain.

 

[Templar]

Hi all,

I voted for the hammock & tarp, but to be honest it all depends on where I am going, out in the bush its easy to put up the hammock under my hootchie, which is good for summer, but in winter to be honest its warmer to use the Bivvy, if there are no trees my hammock stays in my pack and I just use the hootchie & bivvy bag, I just carry both out of habit, but then again I have spent too many years sleeping this way through my previous employer's good graces.... hmmm come to think of it I hate sleeping on the ground...

Anyway it's all good...

Stay safe and keep it fun...

 

[BOD]

... but then again I have spent too many years sleeping this way through my previous employer's good graces.... hmmm come to think of it I hate sleeping on the ground...

...

and basha not higher than 18" off the ground??

 

[Andy2112]

Bivvy and tarp, will i be ok to use it mid December or will it be too cold ? Not used a bivvy bag before you see so i want to try it out.

 

[mortalmerlin]

Tarp and bivi for me, but only because I don't have a hammock. I will get round to trying one some day.

 

[phaserrifle]

hammock and tarp (I love my hammock)
bivybag ect would be second choice, when there are no suitable trees.

personaly my suggestion for aquiring hammocks is to make your own, if you shop around a bit (and already have acess to a sewing machine) it only costs a few quid. mine was about £10 for the main matiriel, £6 for main lines, then add some nylon webbing (from army utill straps), some paracord and some thread and your finished. total cost was about £25 all told (and I had paracord left over)

 

[KIMBOKO]

I don't understand why you would use a bivvy bag and a tarp. I have only ever used one or the other.

 

[Apac]

Anyone ever tried a small dog in a hammock?

Sunday night I tried my new Hennessey hammock for the first time and I brought along my little fury jack russle shaped hot water bottle and to be honest I didn’t even notice he was there! That thing is surprisingly spacious. most of the night he laid at my side infill he woke me up about 4 in the morning shivering trying to find his way in to my sleeping bag lol..