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>Be me 2 years ago 27 years old
>Finally go camping again after 3 years in the infantry
>Cold as shit but want to try hammock camping for the first time
>wind wicking heat since I'm an idiot and used a hollowfill sleeping bag that just crumples up beneath me providing no insulation whatsoever.
>whelptimetofreezetodeath.wav
>Brother in a shitty 25 dollar tent a few feet away
>Need to tough it out to show what it means to be infantry
>grab two quilts from car and put them in hammock
>barely tolerable cold is slightly more barely tolerable
>Eventually fall asleep after drinking some shitty screwdrivers from a jug
>Wave up to my hammock swinging somewhat violently back and forth
>"What the fuck dude?" at my brother
>look at his tent
>still zipped up and I can hear him snoring
>shitjustgotreal.jpg
>roll out of hammock and grab machete
>headlamp on flashlight on shitty string of LEDs I use as decoration on my hammock line on
>only other campers left yesterday because it was too cold
>realize how vulnerable sleeping in a hammock makes me
>basically just a bag of meat suspended at chest level
>PTSD starts creeping on
>seeing shadow people ducking behind trees like I did back downrange when deprived of sleep and paranoid
>rebuild fire and stand watch the rest of the night, drinking shitty screwdrivers and holding machete while scanning the treeline
I still have no fucking clue what pushed me. Plan on visiting campsite again this year. This time bringing a gun.