The ultimate, ultimate hang hammock set up
For a lot of years I tried and failed at hammock camping. I just couldn’t get it right. I kept hearing and reading that hammock camping is the most comfortable night’s sleep ever and that people would never go back to sleeping on the ground, no matter how thick or comfortable the air mat. This was quite frustrating as I always got cold, got hyperextended knees, slid to one end and just generally couldn’t get comfortable. Sometime in 2021, after a particularly rough sleep on a log bed I had to make to get something resembling level to sleep on, I decided to put some research into hammocks and make it work. People make it work and rave about it so I must have simply been missing the trick. The problems I faced My three problems to solve where: Cold sides Sliding to one end hyperextension, specifically of knees. Cold sides Being cold was easy to solve. I used to use a closed cell foam sleep mat inserted into my hammock. This was fine for my back bu...