Stealth Camping in Toronto

A short video showing a stealth camping site in the City of Toronto using the Hennessy hammock

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Hennessy
• hammock
• stealth
• wild
• gypsy
• camping

[allanstokell]

This is a Hennessy hammock. They do have a winter cover, but in Zone 6 a Thermorest will keep you warm 3 seasons providing you have a good 3 season down sleeping bag. I don't camp much after October.

[toounfazed]

I love my Hennessy Hammock. Yes, you get into your sleeping bag, then fall back into the hammock. Though I prefer to use an open sleeping bag or quilt. Yes, you can use a pad in the hammock. You don't have to. On a warm night I climb into my hammock with nothing at all, and without the rain fly. Then for a brief moment before nodding off I picture myself as a "bear taco". Wink

[Woodoak5962]

Try setting you hammock so that your only 6 inches off the ground when your in it. It will give you a lower profile, it's warmer, the rain fly will almost reach the floor and that will cut out any lights you use at night (and the wind) When I get my vid cam back I will show you my setup. It's spot on for stelth camping.

[99bugout]

Check out the 4 season - Jungle Hammock dot com. Even better than Hennessy and lighter.. more storage and heavy duty... Camo options, read the specs.

[ZebbMassiv]

I wonder if you could use a series of slacklines to act as a tree ladder and have a Hennesey hammock way on top. If you're nimble you could sleep up higher. surely a bear can't climb like that

[WatchRyder]

What's this like in winter conditions?

A buddy of mine used a hammock, not this one, in late autumn and he nearly caught hypothermia!

[coremanjim]

@skecanj From what I understand (which may be wrong), it's called "stealth camping" because you are indeed "leaving no trace" that you were there. Hence the stealth aspect. The meaning doesn't have to be so narrow as to say it only means your being hidden at the time of camping.

[plutoplatters]

@woohog1 not at all.... that would be a good choice,i agree. just a random comment on all the tubeperts of today.

[woohog1]

@plutoplatters So are you saying that the .38 is actually a viable option? No way I would want to go camping with you then. I keep my kimber custom 1911 in 10 mm for just such an occasion.

[plutoplatters]

@woohog1 everyone's an expert today. got to love it.

[toounfazed]

@animaltendencies It's all those years of camping on the Appalachian Trail that have my "bear radar" on high alert. We sleep many, many yards away from where we cook, eat and store food, and we don't wear the clothes we cook and eat in within tents or hammocks. No consumables or smellables go into the tents or hammocks, like chapstick, deodorant, toothpaste, water, sticky drinks, contact lens solutions. Yes, we Yanks jest love to "rough it" outdoors with the wildlife. LOL

[animaltendencies]

@toounfazed In England the worst you have to worry about when you're hammocking is a Badger biting your arse! Know what a Taco is though... Hahahahahahahahaha!