Spike camp with a hammock and tarp?

[QuackNSmack]

For those of you "on the fence" about hammock camping, here is a pretty good website to check out: http://tothewoods.net/HammockCamping.html

This site was awesome! Read up on a bunch of different scenarios and got a basic sleep system for the trip. Thank you!

 

[QuackNSmack]

I'll tell ya this, if I were hunting in an area with thunderstorms I would NOT want to be in a tent on the ground. You are far more exposed to death by lightning being in wet ground that you are suspended from a Whoopie Sling. Plus, finding a spot that is flat, won't flood, is free of rocks and roots ain't always an easy thing, especially if you've been tracking your elk, dressing it at midnight and then looking to set up camp. Finding a couple trees to hang from is usually easier than finding a nice flat spot and you are less likely to wake up dead with a tent melted to your face. To each his/her own. The young guy in this tent didn't make it.

Excellent point, I never really thought of the lightning, but as for tracking the heard and keeping on them, I figure the hammock was a quick set up and not having to look for flat ground a tent can be set up could be less ideal after hiking all day.

 

[ds2]

Just got back from a Colorado high country deer hunt. Rained, and/or hailed every day . Major lightening along with it. Wasn't super cold, but I think that I would want a tent. Violent rain!

 

[Deleted member 33033]

There were tents on the pads here before the storm but they disappeared in the middle of the night...gee, I wonder why?

 

[augnmike]

Regarding benefits of hammocks, if you or your partner snore like a water buffalo setting up to get some distance from the noise is a plus.