Originally Posted By Paulo
Yah, Once I get back from Bolivia I have plans to get my hands on a hammock. The biggest issue is that I'm used to hiking up to subalpine and trees there don't cut it.

I was chatting with the author of the ultimate hang and he gave me a bunch of good ideas for getting around that though. I'll have to pick up his book at some point.


Subalpine? I think we have two different ideas of what that is. I have to take long straps to hammock in subalpine - the trees get real big around 7,000 - 9,000 feet.

You may be thinking of alpine, where there can be little trees that are springy, short, and unsupportive of a hammocker. I've tried - you end up on the ground, in the hammock.
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