Jungle hammocks
Has anyone had experiences with using a jungle hammock on their tour?</p>
I bought a Hennessy Hammock ( http://www.hennessyhammock.com/)
for last summer's bike tour in east Europe and the Alps, and there the experiences were mostly good.
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The hammock is swift to set up and pack and requires very little space. It is also designed so that you can sleep comfortably straight in a diagonal position, and keeps you quite dry even in heavy rain or flooding ground.
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While you're not sleeping on the ground, you still need some insulation under you because your body weight squeezes the sleeping bag. After one cold night I bought a small space blanked for this purpose -- this seemed to work very well with my ultralight summer sleeping bag.
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However, the obvious question with hammock is what to do when there are no trees. My solution to this was to attach one end of the hammock to my motorcycle and one end to a fence, but I guess two about one meter long sticks and some rocks to hold the ropes might work too. This setup would work quite OK in semi-hard terrain if you have tent stakes.
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Some pictures:
Hennessy Hammock
Hammock without trees
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Has anyone had experiences with using such a setup on a longer tour or in mostly non-forested areas?
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