Trip No. 2 with a Hammock
After the first hammock trip, I got myself a used underquilt, also from DD Hammocks. I’ve also gotten wiser about how the hammock should be angled. So off I go to try again! It was fairly easy to adjust the underquilt, but the previous owner hadn’t really set the elastics up properly, so it required a bit of a fight with wild knots and a pair of scissors. I also did a quick test lie in the hammock to check that everything felt right. The trick of raising the foot end and lying diagonally made a huge difference. I packed everything into a DD Hammock XL sleeve. It works perfectly – it fits around the hammock, underquilt, and Carinthia Defence 4, so it’s really easy to pack down and set up. Ridgeline and Setup I’ve been tinkering with a way to set up the ridgeline quickly and easily. In my head, I’ve been playing with different wooden locks to secure a ridgeline without using knots. But then I came across exactly what I had in mind – just small and in aluminum. From there I also came...
