Kilted backpacking

**cavscout** · 23rd April 09, 08:50 PM

No better way to hike than kilted. What Hammock are you using? I'm in a Skeeter Beeter Pro with a ring buckle suspension system. If you don't know about hammockforums.com give it a look.

**Iain Robb** · 24th April 09, 04:08 AM

Originally Posted by cavscout

No better way to hike than kilted. What Hammock are you using? I'm in a Skeeter Beeter Pro with a ring buckle suspension system. If you don't know about hammockforums.com give it a look.

I'm using the older Skeeter Beeter. Not the Pro.

I've got to upgrade my suspension system. I used 6mm utility cord to make a system I could use for my hammock and tarp, and it's not adjustable enough. What I've come up with for an adjustable suspension system is probably going to be too heavy. Guess I'll have to head over to hammockforums.com!

And by the way, I am metrically challenged. It's a 60L pack, not 30L.

**cavscout** · 24th April 09, 06:12 AM

Nice setup. I've been very pleased with the SB. Look me up over on Hammockforums, I'm Cavscout over there also ad there are quite a few kilt wearers also.

**SgtKmack** · 24th April 09, 07:17 AM

Another hammocker hear too. I'm doing 30 miles (2 nighter) on the AT in Southern Mass in mid May. I will decide at the last minute on wether to kilt or not, weather and ticks being the issue.

**Dan R Porter** · 24th April 09, 07:36 AM

Thats a neat setup, I am still a tarper.

Is that an external frame sporran? haha.

**Alan H** · 24th April 09, 10:44 AM

Wow, I haven't slept in a backpacking hammock in DECADES....

However, backpacking in a kilt is the schiznit....absolutely. I'm hooked.

**Tartan Hiker** · 24th April 09, 07:41 PM

I'll never hike in anything but a kilt, again, ever!
I'll never sleep in anything but a hammock, again, ever!

But if the mercury drops below 20 degrees F, the statements above are null and void, maybe.

How's that for dedication?

**Iain Robb** · 25th April 09, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by Tartan Hiker

I'll never hike in anything but a kilt, again, ever!
I'll never sleep in anything but a hammock, again, ever!

But if the mercury drops below 20 degrees F, the statements above are null and void, maybe.

How's that for dedication?

I'm right with you. I've worn my MacFarlane Sportkilt backpacking when it's warm (70s to 90s), and it's been great. Much cooler than shorts. But in cold weather? I doubt it.

And I've been chilly in my hammock on 50-degree nights. I've got my eye on a lightweight synthetic bag to replace the fleece blanket I've used so far. I have a down bag, but I'm afraid my tarp will let rain through in a storm, and a wet down bag is no help at all.

**starbkjrus** · 25th April 09, 07:17 AM

That very nice I suppose but...but...

Where is the three room tent with the screened porch? The portable solar shower? The Coleman stove / grill / water heater / lighting tree / dishwasher / refrigerator / ice maker? For God's sake man - where is the battery powered cocktail stirrer?!?

I mean there is primitive and then there is uncivlized.

How do you make a gin and tonic?

**Cerebite** · 25th April 09, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by starbkjrus

That very nice I suppose but...but...

Where is the three room tent with the screened porch? The portable solar shower? The Coleman stove / grill / water heater / lighting tree / dishwasher / refrigerator / ice maker? For God's sake man - where is the battery powered cocktail stirrer?!?

I mean there is primitive and then there is uncivlized.

How do you make a gin and tonic?

I thought that I saw somewhere that Panache has one of those for when he is roughing it with the F.H.C.A.G. and then breaks out the big tent when they take the kids.