- Adult Size Hammock
- No-Knot Nylon Construction
- Mesh Drawstring Bag
The benefits of hammock use are legion. The first of these is, of course, comfort. You are off the ground, which is much more comfortable than being on the ground, even if you are carrying your air mattress. That's the most important benefit, especially for older folks like me (33!) with bad shoulders, bad hips, or a bad back. A further benefit is less tossing and turning. Once you find the "sweet spot", you will sleep like a dream. Sleeping in a hammock is beneficial for those with bone, joint, and spinal problems. In a properly suspended hammock, your body assumes an orthopedically correct position. If you try it, you will not want to go back to sleeping on the ground. Second, hammocking gives you more campsite options, and you will be able to camp where no traditional tenter or tarper could ever dream of camping. You won't be stuck sleeping on wooden tent platforms. You can camp on terrain that isn't level. You can camp in damp and wet conditions -- even in a swamp -- with no risk of getting wet. You can even camp between two elephants, or over water, which isn't something you can do in a tent or with a regular tarp set-up at all. You no longer have to worry about rocks, roots, thorns, cactus, poison ivy, or little critters. A hammock allows flexibility. Home-made rigs and most commercial solutions can set up as a protected tarp or even as a tent if you have no trees - so your tarping system still hasn't changed and isn't compromised. Hammocks are also Leave-No-Trace compliant. Hammocks do not cause compaction of campsite areas as tents and regular tarp rigs do. You aren't sleeping on the ground, and the ground appreciates that. If you use webbing straps around the trees, the trees aren't damaged in any way. A hammock is fast to set up and easy to use, although the learning curve can be steeper and less forgiving than with other systems. Once you learn how to set up your hammock properly, you will often set it up during breaks. Why? Well, it only takes two minutes, and a hammock has multiple uses.
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