The Hammock Hangers Podcast

The Hammock Hangers Podcast

A podcast where we talk about everything from hammocks and hammock camping to the group hangs from around the country.

Recent Episodes

March 21, 2025

Episode #91 - Travel Planning For HangCon Denmark 2025

Welcome back to The Hammock Hangers Podcast! In this episode, Pheonix goes solo to break down the details of planning an international trip for HangCon Europe 2025 at the Danish Outdoor Festival. If you're thinking about joining us in Denmark, this...
March 7, 2025

Episode #90 - Derek Tillotson (Haven Tent)

In this exciting episode of The Hammock Hangers Podcast, Skunkape and Pheonix welcome back Derek Tillotson, the founder of Haven Tents. Over the past year, Derek has been hard at work refining and innovating the Haven Tent design, and he joins us to...
Feb. 14, 2025

Episode #89 - Hammocking 101 (Going over the basics)

Are you new to hammock camping and wondering where to start? In this episode, Skunkape and Pheonix break down Hammock Camping 101, covering everything you need to know to get off the ground—literally! We discuss: ✅ The different types of hammocks...
Jan. 31, 2025

Episode #88 - Skunkape, Pheonix, Kory, & Shug (HangCon 2025 Recap & Looking Ahead to HangCon Europe)

In this episode of The Hammock Hangers Podcast, Skunkape, Pheonix, Kory from Majestic Hammock, and the legendary Shug gather to relive the incredible experience of HangCon 2025! With nearly 600 guests in attendance, this year’s event was bigger and...
Jan. 17, 2025

Episode #87 - Derek Hansen (The Ultimate Hang)

This week we have one of the OG's from the hammocking community join us to talk about everything from how he got started in hammock camping, to the 3rd edition of his very popular book on everything about hammocks, called The Ultimate Hang. Yes, I am...
Dec. 27, 2024

Episode #86 - Skunkape & Pheonix (HangCon 2025 Countdown & Look Back on 2024)

I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and is ready to bring in the new year as we roll into 2025. Join Skunkape and Pheonix as they do a look back on 2024, talk about what their goals are for 2025, and of course, talk a little about HangCon 2025,...
Dec. 13, 2024

Episode #85 - Cal & Kristen (YOBO Gear)

Pheonix catches back up with a couple of friends that are no stranger to the podcast or the hammocking community, Kristen and Cal, from YOBO Gear. Pheonix wanted to have these two back on so that they could talk some about their newest creation, the...
Nov. 29, 2024

Episode #84 - Danny Warnock (Superior Gear)

Welcome to Episode #84 of The Hammock Hangers Podcast! In this episode, Pheonix is catching back up with Danny Warnock, the founder of Superior Gear, to talk about the company’s latest creation: the Voyager hammock. This new hammock features...

About the Host

Paul

Paul "Skunkape" Collins

Podcast Host

What’s up everyone. I am the host of The Hammock Hangers Podcast. I just wanted to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about me. My name is Paul Collins, but I normally go by Skunkape in the hammock and hiking worlds. I got my start into hammocks back in 2011 when I was planning my 2012 thru hike of the Appalachian Trail. My first hammock that I owned was the Clark North American. Which is the one I did my thru hike with. Of course, I couldn’t have just 1 hammock, and I needed other gear like more quilts and all, so I started looking through some of the Facebook hiking gear swap groups to find more. What I found though was me spending hours just sifting through all the normal hiking gear to find something hammock related occasionally. That’s when I decided to start my own Facebook group for hammock related gear and items only and called it Hammock Hangers Flea Market and Trading Post. It is now the largest hammock related items gear swap on Facebook with over 10,000 members now. Since then, I have also become one of the organizers for the largest hammock gathering group hang in the country called HangCon which is held in Florida. So that’s just a quick introduction of who I am. I hope that you will listen and enjoy the podcast as new episodes come out each week. And maybe one day I can have you on as a guest too so that we can talk hammocks.

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