Welcome to the hammock camping world. Steve is right on all points.
It can be expensive, but your equipment is usually extremely well built to hold your weight. (Clark in particular has a reputation for being overbuilt and tough). And your equipment lasts a long long time because it never touches the ground.
A second caution, though: Algonquin camping presents a few wrinkles, as all campsites were developed with tents in mind.
Many are the times I’ve come ashore and checked out a site only to find there are not two trees anywhere that are the right distance range apart for my bridge hammock.
Or there are, but there is a biggish tree between them that I can’t tie back out of the way for the night (I carry cord just for this purpose).
Or there is a big widowmaker (big dead standing tree or branch ready to fall on you) in just the wrong place.
That said, you can usually find something if you are willing to go way way back behind the site. But Now you need two tarps—one for living at the site proper, and one for the hammock.
It adds a new dimension and way of thinking to your travels. Instead of “I’ll just plop my tent down here,” you are thinking, “How can I make this work?”
And you’ll make it work because the comfort is worth it. And the view. And the feeling of sleeping outdoors instead of sleeping indoors behind a nylon tent wall.
Steve, did you go with the Dreamhammock?
Last edited by Methye (2/24/2018 11:21 am)
It's an addictive way to camp eh? Lol