Who doesn't use an underblanket?

[MagiKelly]

I am working on a simple and warm solution. Make a hole at the foot and head of your sleeping bag and slide the hammock through. Then you have the lofting all round.

Your going to need a very wide sleeping bag to lie at a comfortable angle

 

[gregorach]

And you're going to end up with loads of dead space inside it...

 

[Pablo]

PABLO, glad you bought up the reindeer hide, thought about getting one for my next trip but thought it maybe a bit heavy, do you know how much yours weight's? and compared to a normal foam kipmat how big it comes up?
Have been using a 3/4 length thermerest in mine and the only reason i've been cold is because i've gone a little light on the sleeping bag (1 season mtn marathon bag), but i like the idea of using a hide in the winter for a little luxury

Sorry, I can't weigh it at the moment as my scales are knackered. I suppose it's about the same again as the Nanok, about 3-4lbs. It's not really the weight though. It just very difficult to fold up and stash. No way will it go in any rucksack without leaving everything else out and it's difficult to fold or roll up to lash to the outside.

The length (depending on the skin of course) is on average the size of a 3/4 length mat but a little wider.

Nice and warm though.

Pablo.

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

DD hammock, put a thermarest or car windscreen sun screen inside the layers. Nanok -10 sleeping bag, bag inside a goretex bivvy bag, -9 cairngorms fine. Wet n windy the bivvy bag is essential. Wearing a dbl fleece hat with the brim folded done works well.

Nick

 

[MagiKelly]

I have never yet used a bivi bag in my hammock. If you have an adequate size tarp and it is set right you will not need it. In fact I have stopped even bringing a bivi bag with me now.

 

[nickg]

At the bushmoot this year i reailised that i had forgotten my thermarest so i picked up a fleece blanket in the motorway services for a fiver. Worked really well at first and weighed almost nothing. Badly pitched hammock let a little puddle of water in and soaked the blanket on the saturday night so had to do without and got cold feet. Dried the next day and was comfy.

Cheers
Nick

 

[gunnix]

Hey, I slept 3 months in a hammock on a ship and we just hung the hammocks as tight as possible so that we could lie quite flat and had matrasses made of small pieces of crushed cork, then just a woolen blanket on top.. Worked very well and slept good, 3 months and a half without a night on a bed. The matrasses were only big enough to be under the body, not under the legs, where it wasnt really needed.

Then later I tried camping in a MK hammock, with the sleeping bag all around it. Worked ok, I have a rectangular sleeping bag, quite big, I just put a sweater at my feet to stop air, and at my chest..

I tried the reflective mat, was warm in it, but it doesn last long, and sometimes it was just sliding around, didn like it much..

Never tried bivi with matress..

Ie now used the underblanket a lot, I think itś really comfortable and love it. I have quite many times slept in it with my girlfriend. We only needed to take one hammock and one blanket (sleeping bag) for on top of us, one tarp, one mosquitonet... So it saves a lot of space n weight to do like this. And we sleep good. Sleeping with two in a hammock can only be done when using an underblanket I think.. But then again not many people do that.. Well, I definately get the point that the underblanket is expensive.. and if sleeping on a reindeer hide or on a normal camping mat works for you itś probably much better as you can opt to sleep on the ground if you want to. The underblanket is just real luxuoury. And I actually like that when Ive been out all day

 

[Fin]

I have never yet used a bivi bag in my hammock. If you have an adequate size tarp and it is set right you will not need it. In fact I have stopped even bringing a bivi bag with me now.

I respect your experience MK - the only reason I would use my bivi in the hammock would be to keep the thermarest (or equivalent) in place - i.e. under my body. Having said that, I don't have a double skin hammock and if conditions are getting there - then it's almost time to go to ground IMO.

 

[MagiKelly]

I respect your experience MK - the only reason I would use my bivi in the hammock would be to keep the thermarest (or equivalent) in place - i.e. under my body. Having said that, I don't have a double skin hammock and if conditions are getting there - then it's almost time to go to ground IMO.

I always put the thermarest inside my sleeping bag I only use single skin hammocks to.