Tempting

[TimberWolf]

Travel Hammock / Bivi - DD Hammocks

Advantages over a tent:

• With no metal bits and with its smaller size, the potential of fitting all camping gear into a single aircraft cabin bag beckons. For cheap destinations, avoiding the cargo hold to store a rucksack containing a tent can almost half the flight cost
• May not need a rucksack, just a single sports bag
• May feel a bit weird using it at a camp site, hence would likely end up on saving on camp site costs too
• May be quite comfortable to sleep in?
• Seems practical for warm climes. If there are no trees to hang from, it also serves as a bivvy (small tent)
• Good stealth factor
• Even more freedom than a tent - no more needing to return to a camp site in the evening, or even need to search for a camp site

 

[d000hg]

This is your new "working away from home" solution?

 

[TimberWolf]

This is your new "working away from home" solution?

Holiday season has started:

BBC Weather | Tenerife
BBC Weather | Ibiza
BBC Weather | Lanzarote
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It was 30 degrees C in Tenerife yesterday

 

[Sands of Time]

Travel Hammock / Bivi - DD Hammocks

Advantages over a tent:

• With no metal bits and with its smaller size, the potential of fitting all camping gear into a single aircraft cabin bag beckons. For cheap destinations, avoiding the cargo hold to store a rucksack containing a tent can almost half the flight cost
• May not need a rucksack, just a single sports bag
• May feel a bit weird using it at a camp site, hence would likely end up on saving on camp site costs too
• May be quite comfortable to sleep in?
• Seems practical for warm climes. If there are no trees to hang from, it also serves as a bivvy (small tent)
  [*]Good stealth factor
• Even more freedom than a tent - no more needing to return to a camp site in the evening, or even need to search for a camp site

Bing!

 

[TimberWolf]

Bing!

A tent can be seen from outer space, especially the luminous orange or yellow ones as sold in shops. A hammock is more stealthy and can be used in places where a tent wouldn't work. Camping isn't encouraged in some places.

 

[Sands of Time]

A tent can be seen from outer space, especially the luminous orange or yellow ones as sold in shops. A hammock is more stealthy and can be used in places where a tent wouldn't work. Camping isn't encouraged in some places.

Ahhh... fair point, I thought you were going on the run??


Bing!

 

[TimberWolf]

Ahhh... fair point, I thought you were going on the run??


Bing!

And I might add, some of those wooded places on a cliff top overlooking an azure ocean whose waves lap gently in the wind would probably be locations restricted to the VIP or political classes for you hotel users/suckers. For free.

 

[d000hg]

A tent can be seen from outer space, especially the luminous orange or yellow ones as sold in shops. A hammock is more stealthy and can be used in places where a tent wouldn't work. Camping isn't encouraged in some places.

Are zealous farmers using satellite surveillance to spot campers?

 

[TimberWolf]

Are zealous farmers using satellite surveillance to spot campers?

Probably not, but it's nice not to be a blot on the landscape anyway. A hammock doesn't even leave a mark on the ground.

 

[DaveB]

Travel Hammock / Bivi - DD Hammocks

Advantages over a tent:

• With no metal bits and with its smaller size, the potential of fitting all camping gear into a single aircraft cabin bag beckons. For cheap destinations, avoiding the cargo hold to store a rucksack containing a tent can almost half the flight cost
• May not need a rucksack, just a single sports bag
• May feel a bit weird using it at a camp site, hence would likely end up on saving on camp site costs too
• May be quite comfortable to sleep in?
• Seems practical for warm climes. If there are no trees to hang from, it also serves as a bivvy (small tent)
• Good stealth factor
• Even more freedom than a tent - no more needing to return to a camp site in the evening, or even need to search for a camp site

Thats actually pretty cool, and has just gone on my list of kit for a potential plan for next year.