this is our Cave Creek pet palace this is how we have a camp with a dog WELcome
back guys and gals and welcome if you guys are new this is Maddie outdoors
I am Maddie my channel is all about hiking and backpacking and hammock
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talking about my cave creek pet palace this is what I've decided to go with as
my solution for hammock camping with my dogs so inside this stuff sack is a
fully integrated bug net and bathtub floor system for my hammock what we're
gonna do we're gonna get this thing set up then we're going to take a look at it
we'll go over all the specs all the dimensions all the weights and
everything but yeah let's get this thing out of stuff sack and get a setup on
this is actually ridiculously simple all you do first thing out of the stuff so
identify the bathtub floor it's different than the no seeum bug netting
that is pretty simple and find the door the door is going to be the giant
u-shaped zipper now what you want to do is figure out which side of your hammock
you want the door to go on this is a head into my hammock that's the foot end
of my hammock I want the door to be on this size what I'm gonna do just like
that next thing you want to identify is you
will find the ridgeline of the hammock which I find is pretty easy because
they've got a nice little cave creek hammocks logo on here so this is the
ridge line of the pet palace itself coming off of the ridge line you will
see these little sleeves this is where the end of your hammock actually feeds
into so now that you've located that you wanna go back to the door
find the zipper it splits in the middle and you're gonna open the door all the
way on both sides hold in my hammock so what I'm gonna do is grab the end of the
pet palette where I've got the door I'm going to reach my hand inside through
the door and I'm gonna put it through that little sleeve and you'll notice
that the end of that sleeve you've got a little cord and a toggle explaining that
in a second so you do as well what I find is you bunch up the fabric here and
you get a little hole so this is coming through the door and out that little
sleeve at the end and this is where having the ability to quick-detach your
hammock suspension really comes into effect here so on my field setup for my
hammock I've got Whoopie slings with Whoopie hooks from ducks we're here at
home I've just got toggles and a multi buckle or a multi buckle and my
continuous loop so you quick detach there feed your continuous loop through
the door and comes out through that channel hook it back up onto your
suspension and then what you want to do is pinch that cord up with the toggle up
against your continuous loop so what that does that's going to stop bugs from
getting in through the opening here against your hammock now we're gonna do
we're gonna go to the head into my hammock we're gonna hook that end up
head into my hammock okay pet palace pull it down along my hammock
same thing I'm gonna go in through the door do that sleeve bunch up that fabric
make a little hole just connect at multi buckle
leave my hammock through so now my hammock is inside the pet palace to
reattach on the multi buckle here I get the door zip back up
we've got the hammock inside the pet palace of the pet palace right now is
suspended by the hammock so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take our four
tent stakes stake out the bathtub floor at each of the four corners on the pet
palace you've got these little grill green tabs we do put your stake in there
it's pretty straightforward what's hard I've got the other three
already staked out does it for the bathtub for you've got the sleeve here
that you're having peas through on the pet palace and then above that you'll
see you've got an actual Ridgeline so this will actually lift the pet Palace
up even more so what they give you is you get a little tab coming off the end
here and you can decide what you want to do to attach that so what I've done is
I've just ran a piece of zing it off of either side and I've tied a little taut
line hitch so that I can adjust the tension on this so on my tarp I've got
two little titanium carabiners that go off of my d-rings so what I'll do is
I'll just clip this onto those so because I don't have my tarp up here I'm
just gonna hook these up and simulate it and then I'll back the camera off and
I'll show you guys how tightening and loosening up the ridge line works
regionally I'm just clipped on on either side like to tighten up those knots show
you how it lifts up
that makes a huge difference if you can see at the bottom here I'll go the
camera down if you see at the bottom there totally lifts up the bathtub for
so that's what helps give you your sidewalls on the bathtub floor there is
attaching those two pieces on the ridge line makes a world of difference having
a having those lines pulled taut off the edge ridge line I did originally try
shockcord and I found shocked or just the flexing the line this would just end
up sagging it's just too much weight there is a quite a bit of weight on the
from the bug netting here but yeah that's basically it so I found using two
solid lines so there zing it worked really well not having any stretch holes
nice and taut for the ridge line seems to work out really well now one thing I
did have added to mine was I had the tayo sat it on the front and back I'll
go to a side you and I'll show you guys how much of a difference having the tayo
two actually makes they're totally worth it back side view of the pet palace the
whole oats are not utilized but then on the front side they are utilized and it
just pulls that netting off so when you're actually inside you don't have
the netting slapping up against your face
so the pullets are totally worth using I usually don't stake the pullouts out
right to the ground what I'll usually do is I'll actually take the Toyota and
I'll loop it down and I'll tie it to the d-ring on the bottom of my tarp but
because I don't have my tarp out that's why I've got these things staked out to
the ground or I'll also like run that down a Taito to vegetation or whatever
or sometimes I will stake them out to ground but I usually tie it off to my
tarp that seems to be what's working best for me pass up will do a little
walk around so everything is sewn here there's no zippers on the ends I'm
pretty sure you can get an end entry so you'd have a zipper here on the end I
believe that's an extra but I just went with the normal side entry pull oh it's
done on both sides maybe a nice side view here you can kind of see how much
it opens up
then on the front you've got the huge u-shaped door that goes all the way to
the top which is nice you can flip it all the way over and tons of room inside
so the base dimensions on this one it is 60 inches long 48 inches wide and 1/8
inch high bathtub floor they do have an XL version that is 84 inches long and
the same 48 inches wide and the same 8 inches high I went with a standard
version just because I don't plan on having any person sleeping underneath me
so I figured the 60 inch length was more than enough room for the dogs pad and my
gear to go on the side as you can see
this is basically where I wanted sleeps
plenty of room yeah this thing is awesome let's let's bring you guys
inside and kind of show you guys you guys may have seen a few times if you've
seen any of my trip videos this kind of gives you an idea of what we're dealing
with for room inside here take a look at the details here I made us a tag and I
will say like everything on here is absolutely amazing quality I mean the
stitching and everything is top-notch let's turn around here this is just from
Wanda's footprint stepping inside but I mean we've we've ridden out storms in
this thing the bathtub floor definitely holds up the bathtub floor is a 2.2 hex
material and then it's a 0.9 no-see-um bug matting you can kind of see you get
for a room here with the pull outs how they kind of really open up on the
inside it's really nice yeah super happy with this thing this is
wicked yeah this is this is what we deal with for room inside it's not too bad a
Wanda those guys and gals are Cave Creek pet palace this well Wanda and I have
been rocking all summer for the hammock camping trips you guys have been seeing
popping up in the cards here yeah we've been using this thing a time
it is worked out it's been everything we were hoping it was going to be Cape
Creek was great to deal with Rick thank you so much man for all the help you
were getting the same built and getting it shipped up to us yeah we could not be
happier with this yeah if you guys have any questions for me or for Wanda please
drop us questions down below we'd love to help you guys out we'll put links to
Cave Creek down below as well please check them out they make some great
quality stuff so yeah that's uh that's it for us today guys that's our Cape
Crete pet palace this is Wanda as always I have Maddy thank you guys so much for
watching and we will see you guys on the next one