I bet they'd be a good ride in some rough wind, lol.

I regret not breaking in my new boots before the first actual backpacking trip I took. That still rates as one of the most cumulatively painful experiences of my life.

My main source of regret w.r.t. gear is more about an overall process than tied to any one particular item. The process is likely familiar to many, it's incrementally (and expensively) inching your way towards what turns out to be your ideal pack base weight.

It's where you buy what seems like a nice sleeping bag, then a few years later buy another one that's explicitly lighter or warmer (or both). Then when you get more serious about lightweight backpacking you buy a third one. Double the above in terms of storage space at home and cost if your spouse backpacks.

Then expand the concept to shelter, backpack, clothing, and various other gear.

A lot of potential for regret there. I think it's really hard to jump right to where you'll end up wanting to be, but perhaps I could have skipped an (expensive) intermediate step on a lot of gear.

Bigfoot:

This from that link to the tree-tent blog about the artist who creates them:

"Dre Wapenaar doesn't understand how one moment you can be neighbors,and the next, enemies at war . . . He doesn't understand, and so ... Dre Wapenaar makes tents."

He doesn't understand, cause he's not making backpacks with aluminum vs. plastic/kevlar/polycarbonate stays. No, he's a happy guy just making wild, scroti-looking tents.

I'm just wondering: Would any of the forum's hammock-users have the b@lls to get in, let alone get one? You only need ONE tree, BTW.

No thanks. it looks kinda heavy

hahahaha! What if you were perched in a tree on top of a hill, and "bam", the support snaps, you go rolling down the hill like a giant green snowball.