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.

When I click "buy product" on the Ridge site it takes me to the Amazon link and the 360 and 180 are unavailable. The only Ridge hammocks they've got stock of are the Yosemite ($49) a reversible with attached bugnet and the halfmoon ($38) just the hammock. Both 11ft.

If I can't get the 360, thoughts on these two compared to the other options?