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meg_c /r/hammockcamping
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1970-01-19 19:50:34.622 +0000 UTC

Make sure your hammock is 11 feet long in order to be able to get a good diagonal lay. (I feel almost silly giving this advice, but an insane percentage of the hammocks on the market are only 9.5 feet long.)

I had a Dutchware Chameleon that I loved, but alas my dog scrambling to get out of the hammock to greet someone ripped it... If you want a backpacking hammock that is fairly lightweight and modular, I highly recommend it (as long as you're not in the habit of snuggling with a big dumb lab in your hammock 😛). However, I think it costs about $165 for the hammock and bug net, so it's definitely an investment.

A shockingly good alternative is available by a company called Ridge Outdoors on Amazon -- it's what I replaced my Chameleon with after The Incident. It isn't as lightweight as the Chameleon, but it is both comfy and sturdy enough that my dog has poked a couple of claw holes but none of them has ripped further 😀 There's a $65 version where the net is completely removable, and a $50 version where the net just unzips on one side.

I've been using their non-camping hammock (no bug net or zipper) every night in my house for the last 10 months or so, along with their underquilt, and I really like both products 😀 The underquilt is synthetic, so the weight/warmth ratio probably isn't good enough for backpacking, but it is shaped far better than the other sub-$100 underquilts I've looked at, and for car camping above 45˚ it would be great.