The Hennessey Hammock usually takes time for me to get the line tension right (untying and retying the knot). With my old packing method I was also removing the insulation for the under padding, but with the new one it gets packed along with the hammock.

The basic change is to use a different way of tying up the hammock to make getting the line tension right a snap.

My experience is that even a good alpine two-hoop dome takes longer than the hammock. A lot longer. Usually I”m in bed relaxing while the tent pitching couple are still putting the fly on, let alone inflating mattresses and getting sleeping bags organised.

I have a HH with treesavers, underblanket and hex fly, and that comes out of the bag and onto the tree faster than any tent I”ve seen. I use an old sleeping bag bag for it (a four season alpin bag, so it takes the whole hammock with no dismantling), and I”m thinking the only speedup would be a slightly bigger bag with compression straps so I don”t have to remove my sleeping bag and pillow before bagging it. I use my own hitch for it that’’s fast and easy to do/undo (pics on link), but even without that… just how fast can you pitch your tent?

I made snakeskins (not sure how I like them yet, we”ll see in real world use). Mostly I”ve changed the binding to the tree. I”m using tree huggers (longer ones that I made) along with a marlin spike hitch, two climbing rings, and a garda hitch for tension. I can tension the hammock very easily and it all sets up much faster than the normal Hennessey knot.

I also got the Supershelter two years ago and really feel like I figured it out this year. I can sleep very comfortably through the night in normal PNW summer temps (40s).