Hennesy Hammock tent question

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Does anyone here own a Hennessy hammock tent?

_Yes. I think if you want to camp in a hammock it's
the best solution available. Relatively cheap, light
and good.

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One thing that concerns me but is probably silly is
that since these tenets are suspended between
trees....... what are the chances you could get shocked
if lightning hits one of the trees its attached to?

_ If lightning strikes the ground anywhere near you in
any shelter, you have a good chance of getting shocked.
Camping under trees increases your risk,
I don't think using a hammock makes it significantly more
risky. I've never worried much about it, but I haven't
camped through many thunderstorms. Where I camp thunderstorms
are an afternoon event usually, not a night time one.

_ Booker C. Bense

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Quoted message said:

trees....... what are the chances you could get shocked
if lightning hits one of the trees its attached to?

I'd be more worried about shrapnel from the bark blowing off the tree.

Booker C. Bense
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Quoted message said:

_ If lightning strikes the ground anywhere near you in
any shelter, you have a good chance of getting shocked.
Camping under trees increases your risk,
I don't think using a hammock makes it significantly more

Well like I said..... I know it sounds like a silly
thing to worry abt..... but I was. <g>

I'm planning my first bike tour ever for next summer
and the area I will be going thru has lots of
thunderstorms at night, lightning, etc

And I was just "wondering"....

"amakyonin" wrote: I'd be more worried about shrapnel from the bark
blowing off the tree.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Make a skull cap and a pair of slippers out of aluminum foil to wear during
thunderstorms.

Quoted message said:

Does anyone here own a Hennessy hammock tent?

One thing that concerns me but is probably silly is
that since these tenets are suspended between
trees....... what are the chances you could get shocked
if lightning hits one of the trees its attached to?

I'd say that in a hammock your fears are not well grounded.

Cam

Quoted message said:

Booker C. Bense
<[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

_ If lightning strikes the ground anywhere near you in
any shelter, you have a good chance of getting shocked.
Camping under trees increases your risk,
I don't think using a hammock makes it significantly more

Well like I said..... I know it sounds like a silly
thing to worry abt..... but I was. <g>

I'm planning my first bike tour ever for next summer
and the area I will be going thru has lots of
thunderstorms at night, lightning, etc

And I was just "wondering"....

I've camped through a fair number of thunderstorms, but only one that
was REALLY scary. Most campgrounds in the mountains are situated in
hollows or below a mountain crest. Stay away from ridge tops and the
biggest trees in the area and you should be OK. Don't know about
plains or coastal flats, though.

Pat

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Patrick Lamb said:

I've camped through a fair number of thunderstorms, but only one that
was REALLY scary.

What kind of tent where you in at the time?

Quoted message said:

Does anyone here own a Hennessy hammock tent?

One thing that concerns me but is probably silly is
that since these tenets are suspended between
trees....... what are the chances you could get shocked
if lightning hits one of the trees its attached to?

You'd probably be no more or less screwed than in any other tent in the same
area.

Ron

Group: rec.bicycles.tech Date: Thu, Jul 20, 2006, 10:13am (EDT-3) From:
[email hidden] (Cam)

Quoted message said:

I'd say that in a hammock your fears are
not well grounded.

Quoted message said:

Cam

<very large groan>

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Quoted message said:

Patrick Lamb said:

I've camped through a fair number of thunderstorms, but only one that
was REALLY scary.

What kind of tent where you in at the time?

In a basic pup tent, but that wasn't the scary part. We had stopped
off the trail in a 1/4 mile gap between two rocky promontories when a
mother of a thunderstorm came over. I expected to be crushed by a
falling tree for each of the 30 minutes or so the storm took to blow
over.

Couldn't get the stupid stove lit that night, so we had jerky for
supper. Blech!

Pat

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