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Main Boards => Gear => Topic started by: gunwharfman on 17:28:43, 22/07/19
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I've read about them, I've heard how they used to be standard issue in the Navy and watched a few You Tube videos about them but I've only met one hiker that used one routinely en route.
I saw this today which reminded me - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hammock-tweets_l_5d2f604de4b02fd71dde82ff
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Biggest drawback is that you need trees to string a hammock between, which rules out most of the places that I like to camp.
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Biggest drawback is that you need trees to string a hammock between, which rules out most of the places that I like to camp.
Pack a brace of sky hooks - problem solved.
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Pack a brace of sky hooks - problem solved.
They are hard to obtain. The Royal Navy bought most of them to use on aircraft carriers for the Harier jump jets. There may be some second hand ones available as the jump jets have gone out of fashion.
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They are hard to obtain. The Royal Navy bought most of them to use on aircraft carriers for the Harier jump jets. There may be some second hand ones available as the jump jets have gone out of fashion.
I'm afraid the RAF cornered the stock for the F35Bs. Best write to RAF Marham.
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I don't think that I would get a good night's sleep suspended from skyhooks, they hardly make a secure belay - besides, I don't camp on El Cap!
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Have come across a Dutch lady using a hammock at the Conca Gite/camping in Corse....strung up between two trees.
She was heading Northwards but left in the morning far ahead of me and never saw what happened for the overnights in the North of the route where there are few trees.
I guess good for keeping out of the way of the scavenging foxes that are at some locations a bit of a problem. I had my food bag snatched when on one of the lower routes on the island at Bonifatu.
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Used one in Belize about one hundred years ago, or so it seems. The ground was mud or water. Trees all around and snakes. To say their not my favourite accomodation would be something of an understatement, I found them very uncomfortable.