The surplus merchants at a person time have been (probably nevertheless are) chock jam packed with "down" mummy baggage that were generally a failed Army Quartermaster experiment to try and use rooster feathers. Large, and none far too warm.
Excellent assessment, Emjay! Many thanks for this. I've been eyeing up Wiggy's bags for a few yrs. I loathe sleeping baggage and have really angry when I'm pressured to succumb to at least one.
I need to figure out an attachment technique. It's actually not critical for me though, I have no problems with the scratchiest of wool. Guess I lucked out! I hear many people Will not get yourself a poison ivy rash, I am very reactive to that, but wool has no effect.
An instance the place I am actually happy I am not an ultralight hiker. My pack loadout is generally all over 35-40lbs. simply because I'm employing waxed canvas and wool.
Fearful which the bag would not be at ease, an future cold snap would let me check the bag out. I chose to build a TCOP tent, as they've usually performed nicely in chilly temperatures...
I don’t know if he was seeking to utilize it for winter weather conditions. I’ve normally wanted to try out 1 to have a sensible heat evaluation as the bag thought seems to be excellent.
NJ Jan 9, 2014 #12 The grabbers are merely iron filings and salt that rusts seriously rapidly and so are completely Protected The Zippo I might By no means place in a very bag mainly because it's essentially "burning" gas There isn't a flame but there's an ember of sorts YMMV
Who is familiar with everything and needs a little much more ease and comfort in his age or in additional complicated conditions usually has the 100€ with the Snugpak SF bivvy bag during the wallet and also to him I like to recommend this expenditure.
With my GI Protect along with the fleece liner, I had been great, granted I had been under address, but nonetheless inside the ambient temp. I even have a Glacier's Edge Rucksack that I purchased Once i acquired this sleeping bag. I applied it quite a bit in Alaska and had no problems in the slightest degree.
The opposite aspect, planed as the higher facet, we folded again, the internal aspect was protected by one other quarter stripe.
This detail is good and weighty. I surely wouldn't want to take it on a lengthy hike but it surely'll operate great for the truck tenting I will be performing. Once rolled out on to the floor it disappeared as the top aspect is camouflage. The below facet is woodsy brown. Interior has, what File & S calls, "Hydrodri"-a humidity wicking layer. Offset double layered insulation to remove cold places. I've hardly ever endured from chilly spots in the sleeping bag unless you happen to be talking about round the complete zipper but the coldest I've at any time camped is 25-30 levels.
Northern Bohemia, Czech Rep., Europe Jan 9, 2014 #eleven I applied a Zippo - like hand warmer in my sleeping bag a number of times. I felt incredibly easily and i am still alive. I had the hand hotter in a pouch on my chest. Czech
I employed my outdated EMS sleeping bag from highschool, it had been a thirty diploma bag when it had been new, back again from the '90s, but remaining old has misplaced a little bit of loft. That combined with my wool bag as an inner liner was super comfy.
Yukon, Okay Coton Sleeping Jan nine, 2014 #seven Rusty, that MSDS is for butane. The top hotter that the OP is speaking about doesn't use butane. It works by using the normal zippo fluid. I don't see an MSDS to the hand warmers on This website in any way.