Robcat
2004-02-17, 14:28
Morning, all.
I have a Exped A-sym I got from REI last year. Love ah say LOVE the HH. Best night's sleep I've ever had outside. I was so stoked to finally be super light and super comfy in the shelter dept. I kept bragging to my trail buds about how good I would be sleeping,how good it would feel to crawl in after a long day of ground pounding, etc, etc. So on a 4 day trip on the PCT, I was only able to hang my HH once. My buds and I are always pranking eachother and flipping eachother s**t, and having my HH smack tossed back in my face was agony! (s'ok though-- the one talking the most s**t unwittingly hauled about 5lbs of interesting looking rocks home for my girl--you shoulda seen the look on his face when I took 'em out of HIS pack!) Tree selection was a problem-ropes need to be longer for my neck of the woods (we have HUGE trees here in WA) Longer straps wouldn't hurt either. I used my HH in the backyard so much that the ropes are starting to fray a little bit in the 'knot zone'and need replacement. So my idea is to add longer ropes (by about 50%) and Brian is gonna make me a custom sil tarp/fly so if we camp somplace where I can't hang it, I can tarp it on the ground and have enough fly to keep dry and comfy. Has anyone fiddled around with the rope attatchments? I don't wanna just tie new rope to he old ones, I don't wanna lose holding stregnth. Thanks all,
Robcat
I have a Exped A-sym I got from REI last year. Love ah say LOVE the HH. Best night's sleep I've ever had outside. I was so stoked to finally be super light and super comfy in the shelter dept. I kept bragging to my trail buds about how good I would be sleeping,how good it would feel to crawl in after a long day of ground pounding, etc, etc. So on a 4 day trip on the PCT, I was only able to hang my HH once. My buds and I are always pranking eachother and flipping eachother s**t, and having my HH smack tossed back in my face was agony! (s'ok though-- the one talking the most s**t unwittingly hauled about 5lbs of interesting looking rocks home for my girl--you shoulda seen the look on his face when I took 'em out of HIS pack!) Tree selection was a problem-ropes need to be longer for my neck of the woods (we have HUGE trees here in WA) Longer straps wouldn't hurt either. I used my HH in the backyard so much that the ropes are starting to fray a little bit in the 'knot zone'and need replacement. So my idea is to add longer ropes (by about 50%) and Brian is gonna make me a custom sil tarp/fly so if we camp somplace where I can't hang it, I can tarp it on the ground and have enough fly to keep dry and comfy. Has anyone fiddled around with the rope attatchments? I don't wanna just tie new rope to he old ones, I don't wanna lose holding stregnth. Thanks all,
Robcat