>>817900Ha! This just happened to me last weekend:
Two friends and I are hammock camping, but we got a little lost and didn't get on the trail till after dark. We only hiked a bit before finding a good spot to set up camp. Set up our hammocks in a triangle for some reason, each of us sharing our trees with the others.
Thing is, this was right next to a recent burn area. Since it was so dark, we didn't really check out the integrity of our trees. Yeah, you guessed it, we pulled down a tree in the middle of the night.
To my friends, it was no big deal, they were just gently lowered to the ground as the tree got ripped up. I, however, was the base of the triangle and so had a fucking tree pulled down on top of me when I was dead asleep.
It woke me up before it hit me because it was so fucking LOUD. Knocking shit loose in the canopy, breaking branches, pine cones everywhere. It sounded like a really intense hailstorm on my tarp. Honestly, in the 5 seconds between waking and having it fall on me, I thought a bear was batting my hammock around. Scared the shit out of me.
Anyway, the thing was like 30 feet tall, landed right on my thighs. My hammock stayed tied up, so I was totally pinned into it, had to get my mates to lift it off of me. Hurt like fuck and destroyed my hammock, netting, and tarp.
The bottom few feet of the trunk were burned to charcoal and the roots system was totally absent. Lucky it didn't land on my head.
