Opps
When I was taking the pictures of the knots the first one did not turn out so I retook it.  I started the knot in the opposite way to take the second first picture. The knot can be started either way just put the raps on the same direction as the half hitch.
ST Sounds like the rest of camp enjoyed your hammock more than you did.
MagicPaddler

A few things I have learned about (Hennesey) hammocks:

1.   It is nice to be up off of the ground, and when set properly they are extremely comfortable.  Setting one up is as simple or simpler than a tent.  Like a new tent, or a tent you have not used for a while, by the third night it is up in no time.

2.  Always have the "foot" of the end hammock just slightly higher than the "head" end.  If the "head" end is higher, a nylon sleeping bag and it's occupant will constantly slide downhill toward the foot end.

3.  The extra or oversize tarp Magicpaddler recommends is invaluable, both for use as general camp fly / rain fly, and for creating the "burrito" wrap for cooler nights.  The standard flys which come with the Hennesy hammocks work very well in the rain, but are not large enough to cover anything more than the the hammock itself. 

4.  The "Snakeskins" from Hennesey are a worthwhile investment.   They make the packing and set up a clean, simple operation.  The resulting "snake" also can be shoved anywhere in a pack.

After 10 nights in the hammock, (a couple as magicpaddlers pictured burrito) those are some tips.  I'll be useing mine again next trip.

Quentin

Just VISUALIZE it as a ELECTRIC sleeping bag warmer

cedarstripper wrote on Aug 20^th, 2007 at 10:15pm:


CS -

Beware tent sleeping, too!

At least ONE QJ'er has had some up-close-&-personal experience with a lightning event occurring while he was sleeping in his tent (I think).  I was hoping he would speak up here.  Maybe the mush that bolt made of his medulla oblongata has inhibited him.

In any case, as I recall, his equipment didn't fare much better than his brains and is STILL on display somewhere in northern Minnesota... what's left of it, anyway (I'm talking equipment, not brains).  Most of it got vaporized (I think I'm STILL talking equipment).

Root systems of trees are pretty good conductors of electricity.  Tent sleepers camped anywhere near trees shouldn't feel immune from the big ZAP (though I suppose they would be even MORE exposed & vulnerable camped out in the open somewhere).

I've had my own electrifying experience in the park but that was out on the water (& I swear I wasn't sleeping at the time).

All that being said, I can't say your notion hasn't crossed my mind a time or two while I have been strung out between trees in my Clark Jungle Hammock during a thunderstorm.  I've even thought about stringing up a kite to some other guy's hammock or tent in the hopes  that it might divert any atmospheric ill-intent elsewhere.

Wishing you "storm-free" camping,

Jimbo  

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I was trying for a double back flip with a twist , BUT either I'm way to old (the likely culprit) or the hammock wasn't high enough, (what I want to believe) adding a JOLT might of provided some must needed spin