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Hennessy Hammock Expedition Zip in Colorado

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It’s a great portable shelter that can be set up quick and easily that provides protection from bugs with mesh netting that runs the full length of the hammock, and a wind/ sun/ rain shelter with the rainfly.

Hennessy Hammock
Expedition Zip 2lbs
Height limit: 6′ tall / 180 cm
Weight limit: 250 lbs / 115 kg
Hammock fabric: 210 D oxford nylon
Hammock dimensions: 100″ x 52″‘ (diagonal)
Mesh: 30D polyester No-See-Um netting
Suspending ropes: 10′ long 1600 lb. test polyester rope

30D Silnylon Monsoon Rainfly
18 oz. 8 tie out points including side panels for harsh conditions
shock cord & nylon cord provided

Location:
Signal Mountain
Estes Park Colorado
www.mullenphoto.com

Today was a good day in the mountains

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It was a windy day today in certain areas but in other areas it was great

Near the end of the trip we ended up getting first tracks


Liz breaking some trail. first tracks on this trail

Rocky part of the trail around 9,000ft. around 4 miles round trip alittle bit past campsite 6

We ended up turning around at this point since there was loose rocks buried under new snow would not be a good place to twist an ankle.

Into The Mountains

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-Into The Mountains-
(This video has been in the works for over a year now from filming to the editing.)

Into The Mountains from Patrick Mullen on Vimeo.

Camping through all the season was a great experience always learning something new every trip or exploring the best things mountains have to offer and finding out its tough work to survive.
Last year decided to just get out and do some hiking / camping solo ended up going on 15 solo trips to new locations almost every weekend. These are some of the experiences that happened out camping in the mountains from moose at 4 a.m. to a lightning storm while camping at 11,000ft at Twin Crater Lakes.

Locations:
High Park Fire, Emmaline Lake, Twin Crater Lake, Island Lake, Timber Lake, Browns Lake, Roaring Creek, Mirror Lake, Blue Lake, Lake Agnus, Nokhu Crags, Mummy Range mts, Medicine Bow mts, Commanche Lake, Cirque Lake, Signal Mountain, Colorado, Wyoming

Gear/ Equipment
Hennessy Hammock Safari Zip / Expedition 30D Monsoon Rainfly
Gore Tex Rain Jacket / Pants / Military Bivy Cover
GoLite Shangri La3 Tent
Northface 20 degree Sleeping Bag
Big Agnes r. value 5.0 Sleeping Pad
MSR Denali Evo with 6″ Tails
Black Diamond Icon Headlamp

Music:
Led Zeppelin The Rain Song

Into the mountains.

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Location: Signal Mountain Colorado
Camera: Canon 40D
Lens 50mm: 1.8f.
Shutter Speed: 1/125
Aperture: 9f. stop
Iso 160
Date Time : 3/10/2013 – 6:13 PM

Today was a good day to hike a mountain ended up leaving the house around 1 p.m. and decided to find a trail with less people around ended up heading up to Glen Haven and checked out Signal Mountain trail ended up hiking 4 miles round trip and found this great place to relax and enjoy the sunshine without dealing with the high winds in town. This was a great mini trip as always arriving back home to only pick another spot to see next weekend.

One of my favorite places I found this summer

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This experience was great hiked to Island lake and the storms rolled in so ended up hiking down to a lower lake across the valley and eventually decided to get to some trees so Im not sitting on a mountain in a lightning storm. Ended up finding this water fall along the way and camped within 100 feet of this badass place. Camping in the mountains is epic.