hamock/tarp instead of a tent

[ILUVSWTAS]

Come to the other end of Australia on the other hand and I reckon people are about as silly tenting it as those hammocking in Tas

Most sensible thing said on this thread yet. Well done young man!!

[Liamy77]

LIKE I SAID BEFORE THEY ARE SKIRTS NOT KILTS. *that is all*

I want to see someone wearing a "skilt" (new compromised name) a poncho, vibram five fingers, and AARN boobies.

well given enough strong drink...... but only if you promise not to poke my buttocks at all (with sticks or otherwise) if i pass out in my hammock?! and i think that pasties should be attached to the AARN boobies? - only to assitst in using the fastenings/zippers when youre wearing gloves of course


... but if i did all that i'd then have to run for politics or something

[Liamy77]

:lol: just givin you *&%$#!

I'm going to report that post for bad language.

As an aside, I can see certain situations where a hammock would be quite handy - for instance off track climbing of some of the more remote Tas mountains where flat ground is a premium. You can just duck below the rockline into some sloping forest and camp suspended (probably with a bed of bauera... but it's better than nothing).

Surely tarptent are working on a bivvy/hammock/tent transformer monstrosity?

*&%$#!? no young man you misunderstand me.....
S pecial
H igh
I ntensity
T raining

must be my refined academic sense of humor??

[ULWalkingPhil]

i am a fan of hammock camping and generally the first to advocate it.

But, having lived a few years in Tas and done plenty of walks (including experiencing being holed up with the blizzard trying to blow you off the mountain / kill you - when it should be sunny and is summer) - i would recommend a tent.

If you were really keen for the hammock in Tas - maybe the east coast or if you were sticking in lowland / forest areas only (being of the soggy ground may be some advantage in some places).

Agree that the cold hammocking in the USA is not necessarily a good comparison - Tas ain't that cold by the thermometer - but the combination of wet, cold, wind, the fact you are often wet and muddy after any walking and the extremely unpredictable weather (especially as you go west and up) makes that little bit of cold much harder to manage day-in day-out.

Come to the other end of Australia on the other hand and I reckon people are about as silly tenting it as those hammocking in Tas

Very well said.

When I was at the Blue Mountains just before winter, a couple days it was maximum 5C, that's the warmest it got. I was out hiking on this particular day. All I wore was a Merino wool long sleeve shirt (200 weight) Long Merino 150 undies and a Event water proof trousers, with a light weight fleece top. I felt very warm. There was no rain, no wind. Upon returning home. I was out hiking in 13C, it was windy and I felt colder up in QLD than I did in the Blue Mountains, because of that wind factor. I was lucky at the Blue Mountains to have such wonderful weather and the best thing, the cold kept the Leeches at bay, Not one leech. A couple days prior I was at the Royal National Park hiking the overnight 2 day coastal walk and on the 2nd day I was bombarded with leeches.