My Hennessy…

Yesterday my Hennessy EXPLORER DELUXE ASYM arrived, today I set it up in our local park.

First let me say that it’s not as easy as the Hennessy Website claims – the first time. I expect I will have it up in 2 minutes flat next time. Part of the problem I had was simply not starting far enough up the trees. Once I moved things up it was wasn’t a problem. All in all I think I got it in less than 10 minutes including retying the lines up the tree. Like I said, next time it’ll be a snap. Yeah. Sure.
A bigger problem is the Hex Fly that I substituted for the regular fly. I love the size of the fly. I don’t love trying to set it up in the wind. It seems as soon as I started it got a bit windy which made things a wee bit dicey, but I got it as you can see.
You can also see I didn’t really get it quite right, I’ve got to reposition the fly a bit to the left to cover the entire hammock. I noticed it when I took the image, then I did it – but didn’t bother taking another image.
Now about getting in and out. It’s a little scary the first time you backwards into it…did I tie off the hammock properly? Will it hold me? [Get one your size, I did.] So on and so forth. It worked as promised. Getting out is a breeze, even the first time. The second time I got in it was a snap. By the third I was practically falling back into it.
I still have a lot to learn about it, but I think I’m ready for its first real use, maybe next weekend!
Now, for the “snakeskins.” They work great. I was even able to get the Hex Fly wrapped up. I don’t know if I’ll do it again, but it fits. I learned how to do it on The Place with No Name –
SHANE STEINKAMP’S BACKPACKING BASE CAMP. Thanks Shane!
I learned how to do the knot on the same website, a different page though – right here.
Another excellent source of information is this article, “A prolongated test of the Hennessy hammocks” on the Outdoors-Magazine.com site. They don’t like the knot though. 🙂
All in all I’m stoked.
Aloha!