The weather's been terrible over the midsummer festivities – bad enough that my family decided to skip any attempts to enjoy the main festive day of juhannus and instead chose to drive the eldest's house moving load to her new place :o)
Yesterday looked like a surprisingly decent piece of summer, so I ran to the woods for a moment of peace and, as it turned out, solitude – the place is a campsite for a group of friends, but I had it all for myself. Cooked food, enjoyed my own spruce tip beer, played the djembe to get it to battle tune after a head replacement, got the tent sauna going and swam in the lake. Good times.
What is the deal with the tent hammock? That's an great idea. Can you share a make/model?
Well no, it's not a product :D What you are looking at is just a regular hammock and tarp hang...
The hammock is made by me, and it's hanging like hammocks regularly are, strapped to trees. There is a ridgeline on the hammock and that is supporting a bug net.
The tarp is a DD Hammocks 3 x 3 m Superlight tarp on a Derek Hansen ridgeline (you can google this one, really neat) and there is a tent support bar spreading the tarp on the front-back axis (this is again my own idea, highly recommended). The trick is to have a bar that's longer than the tarp, so that it ends up bowing up and supporting the tarp. Mine is a 3,25 m spare part for some expensive tent that I do not have :D