Crua Hybrid Hammock/Tent/Air Mattress

Product Description

Ensure you have a comfy place to sleep no matter what type of environment you encounter in the wild by packing the Crua hybrid hammock/tent/air mattress. It includes a built-in self-inflating air mattress in addition to attached bug mesh to keep out

Top Reviews

DO NOT BUY ONE!
by Thomas Rossiter (1 out of 5 stars)
November 19, 2017

I am a Boy Scouts volunteer and do a bit of camping each year. Was thrilled when the Crua Hybrid Camping Hammock arrived just before taking a co-ed group of Venture Scouts backpacking in Minnesota last July. However, I immediately noticed it was bulkier and heavier than described in the original Kickstarter advertising. When I weighed it, I was really disappointed to see it weighed closer to 8 pounds than 6 pounds. I decided to take my standard Grand Trunk Skeeter Beeter hammock and Kelty Noah tarp rather than carry the extra weight. (I now know this was a great idea.) I considered trying to return both of the Crua Hybrids since the heavier than advertised weights and bulky size/shape would keep me from ever backpacking with them. In the end, I decided I would use them when car camping.

I used the Crua Hybrid for the first-time last weekend at a Boy Scouts camp where I was teaching a geocaching merit badge. It worked well as a low-profile tent (my Venturing crew picked a spot with no trees from which to hang it) but at a cost of almost eight pounds, I could have used a much larger tent.

This weekend I tried to use the Crua Hybrid as a hammock tent at our climbing campout. I hung it between two wooden poles at the camp, got it leveled, and received a lot of compliments from other campers including youth and adults. After inserting my Crua pad (which I really like and did take to Minnesota) and my sleeping bag, I carefully sat in the Crua Hybrid to remove my boots so I could lie down for the night. While removing my second sock, I heard a tearing sound. Before I could get out, my bottom hit the ground. The material holding the grommets at the foot end had torn most of the way across. I'm happy I didn't hang it very far of the ground. I'm very sad it tore the first time I sat in it.

I am also happy I had my Grand Trunk Skeeter Beeter in the car so I could hang it up. Resulted in my going to bed much later than planned but I got a restful sleep. I have used my Grand Trunk Skeeter Beeter for a few years and adventures including a 150 miles trek in the Quetico Provincial Park (Canada), 60 miles on the Superior Hiking Trail, many miles backpacking in Oklahoma, numerous nights a summer camps, weekend camps, Philmont climbing training, etc. It has served me well.

I'm very sad about having purchased two of the Crua Hybrids for $500 on Kickstarter. After waiting months (almost a year) to receive them then a few months to try them out, I'm so unhappy with myself for not returning them upon receiving a product that didn't match the description and disappointed with Crua for selling an inferior product while marketing as the perfect solution for hammock campers. I will attempt to return the Crua Hybrids for a full refund and will keep you posted. My recommendation right now, DO NOT BUY ONE!
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High Quality Multi-Functional One Person Tent Great for SHTF Preparedness Situations/Hiking Camping
by Christopher W. (5 out of 5 stars)
September 27, 2017

I first purchased this item through their Kickstarter program back in March 2017 and finally received it around mid-July 2017 while visiting my brothers up in the Pacific Northwest. Once I received it I immediately added it my personal 72 Hour Survival Bug Out Bag that I built myself over the past few years and I keep making slight adjustments and improvements to it to have more capabilities but be hopefully lighter in weight and more compact. I'm constantly trying to find newer and better products that have more multi-functional uses but be reasonable with weight. This Crua Hybrid Tent is not the lightest or cheapest one person tent I've ever purchase but it is the most compact multi-functional 2-in-1 tent I've ever purchased. I have had to make a few modifications to the stuff sack of the 2-in-1 tent in order for the mouth of the stuff sack to remain closed and to be able to attach the entire tent in the stuff sack to the outside strap webbing of my survival backpack and I've also suggested these modification improvements to the Crua Outdoors Company. Besides the 2-in-1 tent itself, which can be a one person ground tent or a one person hammock tent, it also comes with a rain-fly, stakes, para-cord strings, flexible tent poles, a self inflating one person air mattress like yoga mat with stuff sack similar to a Klymit Static-V blow-up mattress but 2-3 times larger . It also comes with your choice of a 35 degree or 20 degree antibacterial fabric sleeping bag and stuff sack. The tent itself in its stuff sack weights 7.2 LBS but it weights a bit more with the one persona air mattress and sleeping bag. It is a very easily setup tent compared to other tents, except maybe compared to the IBNS/Badgers one person spring loaded pop-up tents from Catoma Outdoors that connect to military COT frames. I very much like the feature of being able to chose to whether I want to sleep on the ground or off the ground between two trees/poles and the fact that if you purchase two of these tents you can lay them side by side and attach them together from the outside middle of the tent and then unzip the interior walls between the two tents turning two one person tents into a two person combined together tent. I had a great time using this tent to sleep in front of the base of Panther Creek Falls north of Carson, WA., by a beautiful flowing creek at the beginning trail of Falls Creek Falls north of Carson, WA., at the begining of the hiking trail heading to the Lower Lewis River Falls 90 minutes east of Woodland WA., at the top of Sahalie Falls on HWY 126 east of Eugene, OR., at the Tamolitch glacier blue pool north of the Belknap Hot Springs Lodge east of Eugene, OR., and at Proxy Falls 9 miles east of the Belknap Hot Springs Lodge east of Eugene, OR. I would definitely recommend this product to others whether your packing it into your car and driving up to the camping spot or your adding it to your hiking/survival backpack to travel through the wilderness and setup camp.
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A Great Tent At Worst
by Amazon Customer (5 out of 5 stars)
September 26, 2017

I am not a pro outdoorsman at all but hopefully you can find a bit more of a moderate review here: I recently took the Crua Hybrid on a trip to the French River up here in Ontario, Canada. I was in the backcountry for 3 days and 2 nights so I opted to leave the hammock modules at home to reduce weight.* Very easy to set up as a tent and easy to pack up again. Temps only went down to 48°F. I slept comfortably all weekend. Typical condensation on the fly in the morning, perhaps exacerbated due to camping along a river system. I would say that the air mattress that the Crua Hybrid ships with is comparable to a Thermarest Pro-Lite. An instruction manual, if needed, is available as a free online download.
* The product description is accurate - I am also a Kickstarter backer of this project and I was not at any point led to believe things about the weight of this product that were not true.
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Do not buy if you need a hammock!
by Catherine A. Amolsch (1 out of 5 stars)
October 6, 2017

I bought the hybrid on Kickstarter and based on the video, I had high hopes. When I first opened the box, my first imperssions were that it was well made, though there was a lot of overkill, especially if you wanted to use it for backpacking. The carabiners were way too heavy and are the screw type. I immediately replaced those. The suspension ropes were also heavy and one of mine actually had some fray. When I set it up, the thing would not lay flat, it was turned to the right. So I decided to re-rig it with dyneema, which I would have done anyway. When I was taking it apart, they had cut the extra ends off so even if I just wanted to loosen some on the lines, it wasn't possible. I'm sure this was to keep it neat for the tent users. With the new suspension, I hung it and it was still crooked. I took it on a trip and tried to work with it. Immediately, the grommets started to pull. I took it to people who sew, and we decided it was sewn wrong at the bottom. Anyway, after only 20 days, the whole bottom ripped out and I ended up on the ground. I have emailed Crua twice now with pics and I have gotten no response. I would have thought they would be interested in seeing where the problem was, but no. I can't tell about the quality of the sleeping pad or bag since I never used those. But now I'm stuck with this useless piece of $300 garbage. Note to self, don't buy things on Kickstarter that you have to rely on. So I'm back in my awesome Lawson which I have used 2 weeks every month for the past 3 years and I'm laying in it shopping on Campsaver to buy another one. Go with what you know!

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