OK, so here I am at the beginning of my UL career, standing in the backyard pitching tarps, hanging hammocks, sleeping with or w/o groundsheet, with or w/o bug net just trying to generate both experience and questions.
So last night I throw down a sleeping pad under my newly-pitched tarp. Sleeping is fine, but the morning brings an underside (of pad) full of little slugs and their slime trails. I scraped the little buggers of leaving the pad looking like some Harry Potter troll sneezed on it.
So I'm thinking to myself: What do my new BPL friends have to say about all this. It's not a crisis, and maybe the philosophy is "I don't care bout no stinkin' slugs." But, it certainly strikes me as unpleasant carrying around a snotty sleeping pad. Do I just suck it up and embrace my inner slug? Or simply consider that ground sleeping in dampish environments is not the best choice.
Any practical or philosophical wisdom is welcome.
Tom
