I Went HAMMOCK CAMPING on the Appalachian Trail! | Miranda in the Wild

what's up friends i'm miranda and today i'm out in the white mountains of new hampshire to try hammock camping extremely skeptical of how this will go full disclosure i did my research i read as much as i could i looked at pictures i watched videos so we're gonna try this yeah i think it's good is there any reason why i should be concerned about all the blood rushing out of my feet oh good look again i can't believe i'm doing this look how cozy it is in here though [Music] this is my show gosh darn so i have tried hammock camping before one time and i wasn't very comfortable i didn't sleep well it was really cold i didn't know how to properly set up my hammock the only reason i'm doing it again now is because so many of you asked for a hammock camping video this time i want to see if i can enjoy it more otherwise i wouldn't go hammock camping because i don't like sleeping like a banana so i'm starting here at the highland center at crawford notch and it's about a two and a half mile hike up this trail to mount jackson and then from there we go on to the naumann tent site it's about a four mile hike total the now intense site is actually on the a.t on the appalachian trail so i'm hoping to what appalachian appalachian trail appalachian i'm from virginia and we say appalachia it's a beautiful day definitely starting this a little bit later in the afternoon than i normally would but because it's such a short distance hoping to still get to the campsite early enough to find a good spot to hang my hammock that's probably what i'm most nervous about because i don't really know what that looks like and i don't know how to like designate a great hammock spot so we'll see how that goes great hammock backpacking you asked for it let's go trips on rock very professional q hiking montage [Music] i'm excited this trail's so cool this one makes me miss hiking on the east coast oh my bad [Music] whoa mushrooms little gills ooh buddy my back is sweaty so we are currently on this blue blazed trail but once we get on the 18 it'll be white blazes we should see a bunch of through hikers which i'm very excited maybe i can get a new trail name was your trail name before stumbles wait how can i even know this because i didn't tell you because i don't like it why is it stumbles i'll give you one guess god [Music] damn it [Music] i bet that this makes excellent toilet paper unless it's poison then it probably doesn't make good toilet paper look at how like wide and flat it is i'm not gonna touch you because i don't know what you are [Music] the difference between west coast and east coast trails is pretty significant i think that washington trails have many more switchbacks whereas here on the east coast trails are just kind of like straight up the old hills of the east [Music] i have to say i prefer hikes where you just get to the top quickly [Music] oh nice i love it i'm gonna put her some water [Music] all right cool let's go [Music] we're making slow time so we're trying to figure out the pace just a little bit did you not enjoy that we were going down i feel that we should be going up [Music] mushrooms oh my gosh listen there's a little waterfall right here and it sounds exactly like pee [Music] let's live here those rocks are a little slick that's so up all just straight up [Music] oh chipmunk you i bet are a little pack snack stealer aren't you [Music] it is humid i'm just taking a little rest i'm getting tired for sure it's beautiful i'm loving it but all the continuous up is feeling hard on my legs the idea of like lounging in a hammock at camp right now sounds really awesome so i'm looking forward to that all right up we go all right [Music] rock scramble more rock scramble okay still more yeah oh my gosh awesome [Music] oh yeah buddy yay [Music] cool wow gorgeous we have come up by my watch about two thousand feet about two and a half miles so it's like a decent climb for sure i feel awesome that was really fun sorry excuse me let's go to the sign yay sign all right so at this point i believe we are on the a.t we're headed on to the mitzvah spring hut and i think the hard part's over knock on wood i did kind of forget that i'm sleeping in a hammock white blaze means we're on the 80 [Music] pretty little planks to walk along oh muddy you can see where we came from hello i'm very greasy i'm ready to set my hammock up and pee [Music] whew another sign so our camp is just before then hut see that three times fast here we go to a camp oh there it is all right so this is our site for the night i'm gonna scope my trees all right okay so what little i know about hammock camping i'm trying to find trees that are pretty large around i think there's a correct diameter and that diameter is so my plan is to hang my hammock up between this tree and that one over there i'm hoping that that's enough distance ground looks soft underneath i don't really know much about setting up hammocks so we're gonna try this it's not that i don't know anything about setting up a hammock i did my research i read as much as i could so we have a hammock and my straps and my rain fly and my bug net all right so i think that should be good i think it's five feet off the ground i believe and then we'll do our other strap right here because this is my first time doing this you know i mean in a very very long time and definitely this whole system i think it's gonna take a little bit of adjusting so i'm going to start at around face height for me and then if i need to adjust and move things around i can do that ta-da i think this would be too low i mean i'm not touching the ground but i'm very close to the ground i'm just gonna try going higher i'm just trying to loosen this up and take the strap up take two let's see how this is oh yeah let me lie down a minute hold on yeah i think it's good i am very i am i don't know i don't know this is like if somebody were to like hand me like some fancy piece of like farming equipment and they'd be like isn't this amazing and i'd be like yeah this is great i think it's good i think so i don't know and i probably won't know until tomorrow morning but that's part of the fun of this is uh you know the actual sleeping part we're gonna say that this is good and i'm going to go ahead and throw on the rest of the like bug net and the rain fly i'm extremely skeptical of this by the time i go to sleep tonight i don't know if i'll be regretting this and i'll be banana boated again in here and hate it you know banana hammock do you know what that is those are those like those things that people like hang their fruit from right magnet [Music] let's see if i can do it what in the this had better be the best night sleep i've had at camp ever this goes back there that thing boom do the same thing on the other side okay tighten this one [Music] i mean okay it's kind of cool i would highly recommend doing this in your backyard before you do what i'm doing do as i say not as i do practice in your backyard with all your gear [Music] right tighten pardon me okay here's our rainfly hammocks are hard y'all [Music] okay all right other side so far this setup seems far more complicated than setting up my tent and so for that reason i still feel like i'm not convinced on why i would do this but i do think that if i got used to it it would go much faster so with that being said i'm gonna see if i can do this and get it right and guy everything out and get like all set up uh hopefully before i make some dinner okay like i guess that's good rainfly is on it looks pretty and here we have it i'm like struggling a little bit here because like my issue with hammock kitty the first time i did it was that i didn't sleep well so like all of this is cool all this is fun it's all like neat set up new fun gear and equipment but like i cannot shake the feeling that i'm just not gonna sleep well again i will drop my hammock camping judgment from here on out i will give it a fair chance [Music] i just had dinner and i finished organizing my tent and i want to show you the organization that i did i'm actually feeling pretty excited about it so let me show you okay first i have just flipped back the rain fly i think what i'm going to do is put this back on before i go to sleep but just like until i go to bed i'm leaving it off and then on the outside here i have hung my coola cloth and then my pack is also hanging off of one of these loops which actually allows it to be off the ground then of course i have my shoes and my sit pad okay you want to see inside the hammock so in my hammock there's not very much honestly i have my nemo inflatable sleeping pad and then on top of that my disc of 30 degree sleeping bag and my pillow and then the only other like stuff is this stuff sack extra socks uh an extra like pair of underwear so this is all stuff that i would have had in pockets of my tent since i don't have pockets in my hammock i've just put them in this little stuff sack still not graceful still not good at getting in look good oh good good i'm just gonna lie down into a little practice run so if i have to make any changes before i actually go to sleep i can do that test nap coming up [Laughter] okay okay is there any reason why i should be concerned about all the blood rushing out of my feet oh this is just total banana body this is not working so i'm going to make some adjustments and then i'll check in with you all before i go to sleep hopefully i can pull it off and get a good night of rest ah i should have done a practice nap in my backyard rookie move [Music] all right so i'm in my hammock i made a couple of adjustments to the setup that seemed to have helped a lot that being said my legs are still up pretty high i'm hoping that this is good enough it is a lot better than it was before and i'm definitely feeling more confident about sleeping well tonight than i was earlier in the evening i will show you all those changes in the morning bye good morning i think that i might be a hammock camping convert i slept so well last night which is hilarious because i was not expecting to sleep well at all and i woke up one time because i had to pee and that was it i didn't toss and turn at all like that was it i feel great look how cozy it is in here though beautiful view i get to see everybody's tents i'm gonna get out of the stomach and i'm gonna make some coffee yeah you don't wanna get up but i will there's a slug on my shoe look i love it [Music] get off i feel so good sorry i poo pooed on you hammock you were great that's one cup time to make some breakfast and graffiti and verve my new favorite instant coffee the street level is the blend i don't know if you could tell yesterday but you might have sensed that i was pretty anxious about sleeping in this hammock i love backpacking obviously and i think it's really fun but i also really like having a cozy set up and i was really concerned that i just wasn't gonna have that and i was gonna sleep really poorly but yeah then i slept really well and so now i'm in a really good mood wow this is the life i'm gonna eat my breakfast and drink some coffee and then i'll show you what i did to make the hammock work for me so when i first set up my hammock i was on this street where i'm still attached and this one but it ended up being too close together so then i moved it to this tree that allows for me to have the rainfly be totally horizontal and it gave me a lot more space so if you see now this is totally taught and straight across last night it was all bunched the other change that i made was actually just in how i organized and like arranged my stuff so i had originally been hanging my pack on this strap here but i realized once i got it set up properly that having a ton of weight pulling on this obviously like pulled on my hammock and it was just kind of like a bad counterbalance so i took the pack off and i just have it sitting on the ground and just left my cool cloth hanging here so this is definitely a much better setup cool let me show you inside this is one thing i absolutely love about this setup is that i can actually stand up in here and then of course my hammock set up which is for the most part the same as it was last night except i was able to get it a lot more horizontal and that's it that is really like all there is to it so this is my hammock setup when i set it up for the first time last night it was really bad and i was extremely skeptical already and that made me feel like i was just gonna hate hammock camping but with a couple of pretty minor easy adjustments i wound up having an awesome night's sleep and i might even say it was my best night's sleep i've had backpacking in a very long time so to all of you who suggested that i do a hammock camping video thank you so much for encouraging me to do this i am definitely going to hammock camp again if you enjoyed this video as always hit the like button subscribe to the rei channel and if you have any other ideas for videos or things you want me to test out let me know in the comments below and i will see you all in the wild i'm gonna pack all this stuff up and hike out of here bye friends bye later pretend this hammock is really high up okay like way above in the trees wait wait wait wait wait wait hamlet camping you

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Id: USAImiQ_BB0

Length: 17min 36sec (1056 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 12 2021