My son went camping this weekend, and managed to ruin a smartphone when an all night rain created a puddle in his tent. It reminded me of one of the things I like best about hammocks. You're high and dry. I now enjoy it when it rains all night long.

I'm going to have to get that boy up off the ground!

I was out this past weekend also and had two nights and a full morning of rain. I brought my WBO Superfly and stayed dry as a popcorn fart the whole time. It was the first time I've had this particular fly out in such weather and it performed perfectly.

One advantage hammocks have is packing up wet. The fly of course stays wet and has to be dried out at home, but the hammock just needs it's suspension lines dried, which is easy if you use snakeskins or a bishop sack. The tent will have a wet floor and groundcloth that will need to be aired out.
For rain, hammocks do have an advantage over tents in my opinion.

...the hammock just needs it's suspension lines dried, which is easy if you use snakeskins or a bishop sack."

Or not even that...

Single Line Tarp/Hammock Suspension

quote shsylvester: "

...the hammock just needs it's suspension lines dried, which is easy if you use snakeskins or a bishop sack."

Or not even that...


Single Line Tarp/Hammock Suspension "

Is this what you're running for suspension? How does it keep the tarp from sagging? Is it easier that using a amsteel tarp ridge line with prussic's?

RGR

Yes, it's what I'm using. Look at the vid posted by the OP. Amazingly, the tarp does not sag at all. In fact, it tightens a bit.

The tarp is actually attached to the ridgeline by prussics. I use the straps that came with my wbbb as tree huggers and then a marlin spike hitch to attach the whoopie sling to it (for marlin spike hitch, go to 6:12 of this video: . Making a whoopie sling out of 7/64" amsteel is also dead simple, especially with this mod since you're just putting the whoopie loop on each end and not messing the the closed loop on the other end as well:

The unique and ingenious thing is that the hammock is attached via loops made in the ridgeline by butterfly knots. It takes some fiddling to figure out how much space between the knots for each loop and how long you want to make the loops (for my wbbb I have 140" between knots, 19" loops), but once you've dialed in your own sweet spot you get the exact same hang angle every time. You don't have to eyeball a 30* angle from the tree, don't need to have two attachment points for each tree. Don't need to try and hang onto the hammock back while your're looping the webbing around a tree and hooking a biner to it. And, best of all, you just clip the hammock into your loops with a biner on each side and you're good to go.

I modded my wbbb by cutting off the existing loops of continuous amsteel at the gathered ends, thereby removing the aluminum buckles and then put back continuous amsteel loops I made in their place to hook on the biners. Now I just have the biners hanging out each end of the stuff sack when it's packed. I clip them together to stow the hammock. I never have to open up one end of the stuff sack, as the biner is always right there to be hookeed into the loop after I've opened up the other side, hooked that biner and drawn it out. It's really brilliant.

marlin spike hitch#! whoopie sling

Seems things are a bit off. For some reason the links will not insert where I put them, but added on the end of the message.

I stayed High & Dry too, was hanging for 4 days in Nebraska through some crazy, cold, wind, rain, hail & some of the craziest electrical storms I have seen... 2 of the tents got pretty wet, & both were dirty wet & nasty packing up.... only thing wet of mine was the rain fly.

Love'n the hammock life.

I was hanging last weekend in beautiful, clear weather. Sunny, mid-70's during the day and mid-30's at night. It was just heaven.

Had visits from a few friends, also ...



... both are good reasons to hang.

I like the fact that a hammock keeps you high and dry. I use a set of cotton shoe laces tied to the suspension to wick any water down the laces and not to the hammock.