Experimenting with Layered Hammocks and Covers Using our Poncho Shelter System

Description

A very comfortable sleep in cold windy conditions using a set up of our ponchos and Polartec fleece liners. This sleeping pod type set up is made with standard gear, so if you already have our Poncho Shelter System you can make this up right away. Another plus is you don't feel constricted at all. Check out our gear with these Links

Poncho Shelter System (PSS) http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=1935

Polartec Fleece Liner http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=2415

EZ Clip Midi http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=2846

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Video Transcription

well as perry peacock wilderness innovation and hope you're showing you i'm camping but i'm going to show you a little bit about some of what i've been experimenting with sometimes i have showed some of those things in my camp videos but some people complained that i want to see my crap on there on the video they just want to see camping or whatever but so well just kind of keep the separate and make its own video but but anyway so so this this video is about our using our ponchos a hammock and some of the stuff with setting that up alright this this is one of our fleeces this isn't really on here to keep things under wrap or anything but it's just anyway I'll show you I'll show you why it's on there and fact I think maybe I'll show you I'll show you the police part first yeah three or four weeks ago with the Boy Scouts camping out in the sand dunes out in the West desert and there's just howling up a windstorm just sand you just breathing it you know it's just crazy so i went to bed at night i used my hammock tight and some junipers and i wound up throwing my fleece over top of me over a ridge line and i found that that took out took care of all the sand that i felt like i was just breathing in and and actually it worked pretty nice it even rained on us a little bit that night and I didn't even know it the fleece just handled it all I didn't even I didn't even know tell other people told me the next morning okay so this time like I was telling you how he did it out on the sand dunes of the desert I I through I usually always throw up a ridge line just to hang my like knife and light and stuff like that on during the night or other things but I just threw it clear over the ridge line I thought well I might be better to let it lay right kind of more on me so what I did was I i draped it over me and I used the hood tie from the from the hood and wrapped it around my

I around the ridge line and put a toggle through it just to hold it in place then that made it so when I got into here I just slide that back like that I get in and then pull it over me so you see now I'm in here I'm out comfortable now I just pull this thing up over me like that and now now I'm good to go i'm fine i can lay on my back my side whatever and now i'm all the way inside of here and and this thing gives me a covering now underneath me i have the underneath me i have the the under quilt snapped in and so I've so I've got I've got something under me and now I'm turning this into my covering over top of me and by doing this a let's let's a kind of lay on me and then just drape over the sides I always know when I've slept well at night because I don't get up to go to the bathroom and the night I think I've said that in a couple videos before that that's one of the things the more you toss and turn in the night the more your body fluids swished around everything and they wind up in your bladder and you got to go to the bathroom now if you if you lay down you just fall asleep and you're gone everything's just kind of sitting there not moving around and you find that more often the nut you sleep straight through the night without getting up to go to the bathroom so I you know not only that but i know i didn't i didn't get up or wake up in the night i just slept till morning so this was very very very comfortable really nice and up here it's on the ridge here it's very breezy it can be calm and then it can just gust and really blow like crazy so this thing did really night really nicely alright so let me show you something else that i did here now I didn't do this chill just now or just a few minutes ago but anyway the way I slept last night I just I just threw this thing over me the only thing I did notice is when I woke up this morning this thing had this thing had pulled down some and my toes were sticking out but I had my nice thick acrylic socks on so I didn't wasn't like I got too cold or anything it wasn't cold enough to wake me up but i thought well it would be nice to be able to hold that hold this end up a little bit the end where you're headed is is easy because you're there and you you know you sense it now the other thing i did do was right here on the was right here on the bottom on this end i snapped these two snaps together they're double sided so you can make it work and that way that way i was worried about this thing shifting in the night and just falling off so i thought at least with that it would keep it there but if you take now this is a MIDI clip so this is the this is a little bit larger size here so i just put that in the middle of this and engage that thing and then now i just take this just a cord that's actually holding the holding the hammock up and I just just take like that threw yourself a couple half hitches in there like that and now this thing can't come off of you so you know you're good on your foot end you'll be you'll tell on your head and I didn't have a bit of problem with it falling off of me anything like that it just stayed right in place down at that end you know all around in these trees in through here there's still patches of snow in spots that are you know just haven't got hit by the Sun yet in the night if it gets a little chillier I could just pull it over me and you know it works pretty nice one of the things is because you're laying kind of down in here this thing doesn't lay right on your face you know now if I wanted to I could use here I'm just ad-libbing this if I wanted to take another one of those midi clips and say clip it right here and then tie it up the same way like this then I could have that thing position over where my head is if I wanted this a little more off of my face so I'm just this is on the fly stuff right here this is just this my little brain running here so let me show you the other thing I did here which is kind of cool but alright so now here's the other thing I did so if you look here this is a this is a poncho out of a tax a you the arid urban camo pattern and I have and I have taken this is the this is the under under quilt that I've been using on my on my on my multicam psso and I just snapped it of course you know they all it doesn't matter what color they all go together and put whatever color on whatever punch you want the love fit so anyway so I just snap this on to my au just because I wanted to use the au last night just for something different well so then what I have here if you take a look is this is my multicam poncho because the snaps on the under quilt or double-sided i'm using one side to snap to my poncho that i'm using as a hammock then what I do is I use the other side to snap a second poncho over top of the under quilt but what I had to do because the snaps the snaps that are here on the head end don't match what's left over in other words what's the part that's left over on the under quilt doesn't match what you'd need for a second poncho to go over the top of there so what I did is I flip

flip the multicam on in friends so this is the head end of my au poncho and my under quote this is the foot end of my multicam poncho and you can see that right here because see the head of this thing is facing that way so my head is that way so what that does is that put that puts the right snaps right here the mail the stuff the stud right here to match up to the socket so now all i do is i take my multicam poncho and I snap those snaps up and the only place right here right here near where the right here near the middle there's one spot where the snaps won't match up so you just skip those and then keep going doesn't matter it holds up just fine so now i have a poncho that i'm using as a hammock with an under quilt snap to the outside of that with a second poncho snapped over the outside of the whole thing the reason why i did it was an experiment because up here like I saying I'm up on the ridge and this is just a little grove of trees right here so you look out there that's what it looks like it's just sagebrush and and other kind of little brushes and stuff like that there's so that being the case what I was thinking was I'm right here in these trees that's kind of towards the outside of the little Grove right here and that wind blows right across through here so my concept last night to experiment with was why not try snapping a poncho over the top of the under quilt and now the wind cannot get through that at all so now I've created a totally sealed barrier in there that the wind cannot get to now because it's also a separate piece it actually has the effect of trap of developing another little atmosphere inside of there that kind of traps things as well so I mean it it really really was very very nice and so anyway so that's what I was tinkering around with with here was this combination of of adding a second tarp or a second punch over the top of the under quilt and then adding the fleece has a cover layer over the top of the whole thing and this is really it's a lot this a lot nicer to sleep this way than I thought then a beautiful thing is this kind of setup right here I mean if you already have our gear you can already do this you don't need anything else other than if you don't have a MIDI clip or something you know you might want to get one of those or something but are a couple of them maybe but other than that this is just stock off the shelf you know just hooking it up we had some gusts at times you know probably 20 30 miles an hour so blasted through here and I'm down in this thing I'm not feeling anything I mean I am I am isolated from I was nice and warm but I didn't feel like I was confined and closed in so anyway that's what I've been experimenting with this is just a heads up just some stuff like I say if you already have our gear you can do this right now and so anyway get out there all you can enjoy the outdoors enjoy the gear have fun be safe be warm be comfortable and enjoy the stinking outdoors it's great perry peacock willingness innovation have a break you