Handle Your Schwammock

I never thought I'd say anything that might even be mistaken for, "this hammock fucking rules," but that is exactly what I'm saying about this thing.

It's called the Hennessy Hammock and it pretty much looks like it beats the pants off of any one-man tent for camping in places where there are two tree-like things available. It would be perfect for bike touring or backpacking and I really want one. The most obvious advantages it has over a tent are that you don't have to find a flat spot to sleep on, you're not going to wake up with some kind of gigantic puddle seeping through the bottom, there aren't any poles, and significantly fewer crawly-type bugs will bother getting into it. Considering there are still a pretty good number of trees around, I don't see why anyone would want to set up some jackass tent instead of using this thing (besides that it sort of turns you into a food piñata for bears).

I'd probably go with the Explorer Deluxe A-sym, mainly because it wouldn't explode under the terrible strain of holding me off the ground. The "A-sym" part just means that you're not laying with your head and feet pointing directly at the supporting trees, but at an angle across the middle which makes the sleeping position a bit more flat.

That's how you get in and out of it.