Ok, so my girlfriend and I are planning a thru hike in 2 years after we get out of college. We are both in love with hammocks and hear hammocking the AT Is great. We have experience with shorter hikes and overnighters, but never in a hammock as we have only recently made ours.
When we slept in them in sleeping bags we quickly realized it's just not going to work that way... We began to read about underquilts, overquilts, and peapod type quilts, but we don't know which would be best... We prefer to make our own gear as well, so could anyone point us in the right direction for a hammock setup on the AT?
Overquilt/underquilt? or peapod?
If overquilt/underquilt, are there any specs out there for them? and how does the overquilt even work? Is it used as just a blanket you cover up with?
Thanks