Exped Scout Hammock Combi

To try it out I first wandered up to the woodland we use as a teaching area for our courses and found a couple of trees that looked to be the right distance apart. The nylon straps loop around the tree and back through themselves, terminating in a strip of cord pre-stitched into loops, a little like a climber’s daisy chain. With a strap around each tree it’s simply a matter of clipping the two karabiners into the two lengths of cord, with a bit of adjustment to keep both ends roughly the same height above the ground. You are trusting your weight to the suspension system, so as with climbing equipment it would be wise to inspect the straps and daisy chains periodically for signs of wear. While the chance of anything really serious happening is remote, falling onto your back in the middle of the night is still a startling way to wake up, and not entirely painless.