There is a recent trend of students hanging hammocks between the trees on campus. Hammocks can be spotted around campus and have drawn many onlooking eyes to this new fad.
Raven Moise, a 22-year-old biology major, and Kole Carnegie, 19, like to nap in the trees between the AD and ED buildings.
There is a recent trend of students hanging hammocks between the trees on campus.
“This is the best spot because anywhere the sun is, you’re in the shade,” Moise said.
Moise has a five-hour gap between her classes and doesn’t have enough time to go home her solution– hang her hammock up and chill out.
While Moise is an experienced hammocker, Carnegie is new to the scene. He was inspired by Moise who brings two hammocks to campus to sit in for herself, Carnegie and their friends.
“It’s really chill; I’m loving it so far,” Carnegie said.
Moise is from Washington and used to hang in a hammock all the time when she lived there.
Moise said everyone hangs their hammocks wherever they want in Washington, especially hikers. She noticed the atmosphere here is different because it is not common to see a hammock hung up on a school campus.
Moise has noticed people staring at her in her hammock on campus and warned Carnegie on his first day of hanging with her.
“People will take pictures or videos as they’re walking by and I’m like you’re not slick, I see you,” Moise said. “Some people will even come up and ask questions about it like why we’re hammocking and stuff like that.”
Moise also experienced a high school tour stopping near her hammock indicating the new hammock trend to the high schoolers.
Sean Bradley and Dereie Blow had never sat in a hammock before Moise invited them over, after she noticed them staring.
“I like when people come up and ask if they can get in because it’s something that I would share with everybody because it’s really fun and relaxing,” Moise said.
Bradley and Blow had an unfortunate experience for their first time in a hammock on campus. They sat together in one hammock which ended up breaking the carabiner that attaches the hammock to the string tied around the tree.
They plummeted to the ground but laughed at the experience.
Blow hit his head on the ground which knocked off his hat but “had fun swinging while it lasted.”
Moise usually sleeps in her hammock although she does find time to write essays while she hangs.
Carnegie said he finds the hammock fun to swing in but hard to focus on schoolwork so he likes to listen to music and scroll through Instagram in his hammock.
Carnegie used to sit in his hot car before he started to hang in his hammock.
“It’s nice and breezy out here so it’s much more comfortable than my car,” he said.
Moise notes that she has tried to flip a hammock while she’s in it and has fallen out a couple times but she hopes to achieve this one day.
Her and Carnegie also want to try to stack a bunch of hammocks on top of each other with a bunch of friends but the issue of safety made them reconsider.
Moise said she would love to see more people hammocking on campus but is afraid of people stealing her spot.
Students like to hang out and relax between classes, but some colleges are banning hammocks because of tree damage.
The main reason for banning hammocks is because students are leaving their hammocks up for others to use which leaves the tree exposed to the damage the ties can cause when a hammock is up for hours.
Moise checked with campus security before she started hanging up her hammock and they said it was okay because she is not hurting anyone.
