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Nov 12, 2012 at 8:49 pm #1296000
Figured yu guys would get a kick out of this.
Just a spur of the moment thing…
Imagine waking up to find you have rolled your
hammock and are now laying on the clear mesh
used only to keep out bugs; my friend was lucky
enough to experience this on his first hang that
happened to be this one 80ft up a tree.None the less, it was an amazing experience!
Note. We slept harnessed in.
Nov 12, 2012 at 9:22 pm #1927935Right on.
The only reason I would ever want a hammock would be to try and sleep as high as possible.Nov 12, 2012 at 10:47 pm #1927948No way! How did you guys get up there? What was that platform put there for?
Nov 13, 2012 at 9:50 am #1928014Your buddy was lucky…a couple years ago I was using a Byers Mosquito hammock (with mesh and a zipper) and several of the support cords on one side snapped. They were tangled and were apparently bearing almost all the weight.
The end result was that I was stuck in my hammock with the seam between the hammock bottom and the mesh going right down the middle of my back. I couldn't reach the other edge of the hammock because it was almost 5-feet above me.
After about 10 minutes of struggling the sewn seam between the hammock and the mesh gave way and I fell 18 inches to the soft ground below me.
I cannot imagine waking up to find myself sleeping on mosquito netting 80 feet in the air (even roped in)!
Silly question – are the bugs bad enough that high that you needed to use the netting?
Nov 13, 2012 at 5:18 pm #1928129No the netting was not needed for bugs, just for sleeping on ;)
I built the platform a while back, I have been playing in that tree all my life :)
Climbing up is interesting, the first bit is all dead branches…I rope in most times I climb now adays.
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