Horsing Around in Montana

Visiting my sister's family in Montana, on a working cattle ranch. I was invited to "help out" driving a small herd through a pasture and up into a corral where some of them would be vaccinated. It took hours! So I had my camera, took some stills, took some clips. The landscape is the main interest here. And of course, when I was finished, I had to hit a hammock.

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Sports

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• hammock
• ranch
• cattle herding

[canoedad2]

What an urban cowboy, zip offs and a Tilley hat. looks like you had a good time. What are you recommending for an overnight hammock with no net these days?

[ProfessorHammock]

@canoedad2 yeah, I was the REI cowboy, I'm sure those real cowboys were snickering at me behind my back. Haven't got a recommendation for a commercial overnight no-net, sorry, because nearly all my overnights have been in netted commercial versions, or DIY rigs of my own. Thanks for watching!

[ProfessorHammock]

That ENO double is my go-to napping hammock when I have a car to haul it around, or a daypack if I'm on day hike and am going to get to relax along the way. There's too much "wall" for me to want to try and use it overnight, but the parachute nylon is soft and passes sweat through easily. I've got the Guardian bugnet for it too, which is quite nice, if a bit heavy. You use the right tool for the job!

[keikepono111]

I was just in cooke city montana, where were you?

[ProfessorHammock]

@keikepono111 About 40 miles to the east of LIttle Bighorn National Monument, and a few miles north of Lame Deer, MT

[medicjimr]

Such a lucky guy besides being bow legged low . You are so privileged my friend

[ProfessorHammock]

@medicjimr blessed indeed. and only temporarily bow-legged. thanks for watching.

[dragonflyhiker]

yeeehawwww

[coolkayaker1]

I was in that exact same model ENO in Chicagoland yesterday at an outdoor Shakespeare Fest. While all the others were hurting their backs in folding chairs, I was in a secluded area, stage left, in a grove of oaks, reclining in the ENO, half asleep. There were no cows to rustle. It's good to see a hammock maven like yourself, Grizz, still using the lowly ENO. LOL I'm kidding. It's a sweet hammock. Sort of.

[ProfessorHammock]

@runningstreammx Ha! Not on my calfs. But almost half the herd we moved were frisky calves and you better believe they got a lot of pressure to "move along little doggie"

[ProfessorHammock]

@RedwoodOutdoors That's an understatement. Chasing cattle beats boring meetings, methinks.