starwatcher wrote on Jan 18^th, 2025 at 4:02pm:

solotripper wrote on Jan 13th, 2025 at 9:50am: Hammocks, I have a love/hate relationship with them  :-/ ;) ;D ;D I'm not much of a hammock person, I usually sleep out under the stars, unless severe weather strikes; but my friend Jason loves them. Here in this photo, he is one with the water.

I sure hope that was just a "day hammock" and not a shelter hammock! 

Wouldn't want to be out there during a storm.  Also, back in my early days of hammock camping, I set up much like that one (except a little lower) on north Crooked Lake somewhere.  I hadn't yet learned to account for the "stretching effect" of rope very well yet.  Yup, you guessed right... I woke up with my butt in the water!  Idyllic?  Yes.  Dry & safe?  Not so much.  In the years since I have routinely set up deeper in the woods (with a careful eye on potential widow-makers).  Too often I learn the hard way, if ever I learn at all....

Jimbo   8-)