{"id":5548,"date":"2016-01-31T12:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T17:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:41:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:41:24","slug":"experience-with-a-hammock-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2016\/experience-with-a-hammock-tent","title":{"rendered":"Experience with a Hammock Tent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I went out last night to get some experience pitching and sleeping in my new hammock tent<\/strong>. It came with\u00a0no instructions and there is only limited info available online. I’m getting better using a bit more tension and added a small relieving\u00a0line<\/strong> to the fly so it can hang along the side (keeping the netting clear for viewing the trees and stars!).\u00a0In future I’ll keep it rolled so it stays off the ground.\u00a0I paddled in the dark<\/strong> to a place I’d picked out. Once you find\u00a0two trees\u00a0the rest is pretty easy. In fact, it’s trip-over-a-log easy compared with a surface tent! Plus everything is dry!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I brought a small towel to wipe my feet before swinging them inside. I like the little pouch on the outside<\/strong> for a water bottle\u00a0and\u00a0miscellaneous small stuff. There is also a small pocket in the netting overhead<\/strong> that works well for phone and glasses. One cool thing about all\/most of these tents is the way they pack up, basically two narrow funnel-shaped sleeves<\/strong> (called “snake skins”) that pull to the center. Take down is as easy as setting up.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0diamond-shaped\u00a0fly<\/strong> has “wings” that\u00a0tie\u00a0out sideways. I think this will\u00a0work well, but you have to stoop to enter\/exit. Having recently\u00a0pitched a conventional tent in driving rain (i.e., everything wet), it strikes me that the above arrangement is far superior. When you hang it and pull back the skins the fly is on top<\/strong> and drapes over the inner tent\u00a0keeping it mostly dry. That’s the theory anyway!<\/p>\n

Update: I slept under the fly during a vigorous rain storm<\/strong> and it was amazing! Not one drop<\/strong> of water got through to me!! It was the driest tent I’ve ever experienced. The only caveat is the rain that night was mostly straight down. It would be a bit more vulnerable with a significant crosswind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went out last night to get some experience pitching and sleeping in my new hammock tent. It came with\u00a0no instructions and there is only limited info available online. I’m getting better using a bit more tension and added a small relieving\u00a0line to the fly so it can hang along the side (keeping the netting … Continue reading “Experience with a Hammock Tent”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,47],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camping","category-reviews","tag-hammock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}