Blue Ridge Camping Hammock

Introducing - the Blue Ridge Camping Hammock

Product

Blue Ridge Camping Hammock

Promise

A dream come true for campers, hunters, fishermen, whitewater rafters and kayakers negotiating the most difficult climates and terrain - a lightweight, weather-and-bug-resistant tent that you can string up between two trees? Surely not.

Performance

Whether you want to use this one-man tent as an ordinary tent - ie. pegged down firmly on terra-firma - or you want to suspend it four feet above the ground between two trees like a, er, hammock, then the Blue Ridge Camping Hammock is for you. This is a fantastic bit of kit. It fits into a large rucksack or straps to the top of a smaller one, is really light-weight at 4.25 lbs and you can kiss goodbye to bugs and critters bothering you at night (possibly not bears though, unless you string it 20 feet in the air between two trees, in which case you might have a bit of a problem actually getting into the thing).

You'll sleep on a nylon pack-cloth bed and the rip-free nylon fly sheet will keep the rain off. It's dead easy to set up (just push a couple of poles together and string it up to two suitable tree trunks and you're away), and on the night we road-tested it, it stood up to the wind and 180lb (13 stone) load fantastically.

Verdict

Marvelous invention. Not sure quite sure I'll ever use a conventional tent again.