Kammok Python Straps Review
Five years in, the Python straps are a little gnarly with sap and still strong.
The Mantis hanging from the Python straps during my solo trip near Mammoth Lakes, September 2024.
The Python straps went around their first pair of trees at Middle Velma Lakes in August 2021, the first night I hung my own hammock, and the straps have gone up at every hammock camp since. The straps weigh 7.8 ounces on my lists and hung the Mantis through the Tahoe Rim Trail in July 2026.
Five years of pine have left the webbing a little gnarly with sap. The straps are still strong. Wide webbing also spreads the load around the bark, which a thin cord cannot do.
Trees are the part of a hammock camp I have learned to judge carefully. On a 2014 trip in Desolation I slung a bear hang over a dead tree, and a bear could have snapped the branch and brought my food down. I also carry a pair of strap extenders at 7.5 ounces when I cannot be certain of the trees at a camp. The extenders nearly double the weight of the suspension, and I would rather carry the extra ounces than arrive at a camp where the trees stand too far apart.
What works
- Still strong after five years of use.
- Webbing straps rather than rope around the trees.
What does not
- The webbing collects sap over the years.
- Extenders for wide trees add another 7.5 ounces.
Open the Python straps in Backpackers Friend
The link adds the Python straps to Backpackers Friend as a small gear bundle with the weight filled in, ready to apply to the gear list of your next trip.
The trip kits in Backpackers Friend
The Python straps appears in five of my trip kits. Each kit is a real trip and opens in Backpackers Friend as a gear bundle with every item, weight, and quantity.
- Tahoe Rim Trail, Leg 1, July 2026The first leg of my loop around Lake Tahoe, with the hammock as my shelter. 70 items on a 19.7-pound base weight. Read the trip report.
- Solo near Mammoth Lakes, September 2024A solo trip out of Mammoth Lakes. 80 items on a 21.5-pound base weight, including the only iPad I have ever carried.
- Ediza and Thousand Island Lakes, September 2024Two nights in the Ansel Adams Wilderness with my backpacking partner. 79 items on a 20.5-pound base weight. Read the trip report.
- Ostrander Lake and Buena Vista, July 2024A Yosemite loop with a guidebook shortcut through an old burn. 75 items on a 21.2-pound base weight. Read the trip report.
- Young Lakes, June 2024One night at Young Lakes out of Tuolumne Meadows in peak mosquito season. 77 items on a 21.9-pound base weight. Read the trip report.
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