Adventure Blog

Journals and guides from the DD Hammocks team and special guest writers - read through the blog entries for exciting expedition reports, helpful camping tips, and inspirational photos of set-ups and spectacular scenery across the whole world!

February 4, 2017

Scouting for Hammocks!

Who are the Scouts? They represent one of the biggest and longest-standing clubs we know! Beginning in the early 20th century and with the first Scout camp held on Brownsea...

January 3, 2017

Slideshow: Best DD photos of 2016

Last year we saw you take your DD hammocks and tarps up mountains, into deep forests, across continents, in the snow, through the desert… We think a good way to...

November 30, 2016

Winter camping: Keeping warm in your hammock

Winter can get a bad rep. For many it means packing away the camping gear and avoiding the chill, willing away the cold days and dreaming of summer. We think...

September 28, 2016

Video: No-trace hammock camping

We at DD will often wax lyrical about the advantages of hammock camping, especially when you consider how environmentally-friendly it can be as a camping method. Eco-travellers, backpackers and bushcrafters...

August 23, 2016

Guest blog: Hammock camping for the motorbike tourist

It was while researching for my first big motorbike tour that I discovered camping hammocks. I'd never heard of them before. I was looking for a lightweight, easy to pack,...

August 10, 2016

Around the world on 4 wheels

In 2015, a 19-year-old Richard and a team of friends - the Top Hat Explorers - drove an old car from England to Mongolia with a DD hammock each as...

July 22, 2016

Top 7 hammock hanging places

Not that we needed an excuse to share more brilliant hammock camping pictures with you all, but let's face it - International Hammock Day is as good an excuse as...

June 28, 2016

Guest blog: A guide to kayak camping

My first kayak camping trip was a disaster - a brilliant disaster that got me hooked on the sport for life. Three of us (kids at the time) set out...

May 18, 2016

Photo Feature: Global Adventures

We receive so many incredible photos from our DD fans the world over, it's almost impossible to choose our favourites. The 3 globetrotters whose expeditions we're featuring this time have...

April 12, 2016

DD goes Enduro with Lauren Gregg

When we learned about Lauren’s thrilling Enduro mountain bike adventure coming up for summer 2016 - during which she’d be touring America in her campervan - we simply had to...