Camping Hammock
Which is better when camping to minimize back pain – a cot or portable hammock?
I often go Tent Camping with my family and am looking for something different to sleep upon. We used to use air mattresses, but they are so big and bulky and never last as long as they should because of air leakage. I was thinking about getting either a cot or portable hammock. Which would be better to minimize lower back pain, which I often suffer from? I think a cot would be fine so long as it didn’t have a metal bar in the center. If anyone knows of where I can buy one like that, please let me know.
Thanks!
I understand your pain. I had lower back surgery several years ago and had to modify my sleeping arrangements at camp.
Leave the cot alone. If you sleep on your back, you will wake up sore. They don’t have enough support to sleep on your stomach. If you are like most lower back pain sufferers, you sleep on your side. The rails of the cot will dig in to your knees.
Forget the portable hammock inside the tent. The portable hammocks I have experimented with are worse than the cots. I sleep in a hammock on backpacking trips but the hammock is equipped with a fly and a bug net and it is set up between two trees. It is still lighter than carrying a tent and sleeping pads and is much more comfortable. I can sleep on my back or my side in the hammock. Get a good hammock and learn how to properly set it up and sleep in it. You will enjoy.
If you are going to car camp with a tent get a ThermaRest mattress at least 2 inches thick. Thicker is even better. I use two of these mattresses. Lay this on top of a RidgeRest mattress and thank me in the morning.
None of these solutions are inexpensive, but, if you are like me, whatever you have to spend to sleep and get up without back pain is the right amount.
Winter Camping – Hammock Gear Testing
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