Winter camping essentials: Sleeping Bags
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at
10:59 am
MEC in Montreal offers a wide range of winter sleeping bags. Crawling into a sleeping bag that you know is going to be warm and comfortable is one of the singular pleasures of backcountry adventure. Just as a good sleeping bag can make for a good night’s sleep, an ill-suited one can spell discomfort or worse.
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Western Mountaineering great bags that is the one i used in the Himalayas last year
Wow sleeping bags are expensive although I suppose you get what you pay for if you get cold might as well
i have the thermal light -15 field and stream bag it was on sale for 70 bucks i guess that means i am going to die in winter surivial ?
Its a comfort rating depends if you usually get cold although I would say you could add a bivi bag and fleece liner to increase temperature rating, get a bivi bag that breathes otherwise your sweat will freeze
Good tips.
Wear your poly or fleece thermals.
Eat a fatty meal before hitting the sack.
Fluff the bag up by giving it a good shaking.
heat up water and take it with you into the bag. It better not leak tho.
Put your feet in in your gloves.
The cheapest and highest quality bag will be a Canadian or U.S. military surplus bag. The U.S. bags are down and poly filled and rated to -20. Roomy and time test tough. $60 Used.
i saw you at mec in montreal hahaha
No Way that is so strange, Great Shop
i saw this gorgeous woman being filmed by some guy that should of bin me lol he was actually using a sony 5 mp hd video recorder i think lol i went and got the MEC Fleece Bag Liner Mummy … i love mec
i use the northface synthetiic sleeping bag cuz condensation is a BIG PROBLEM in the winter
and in rainy situation .
For those of us who doesn’t care to help the Western Mountaineering owner buy his next BMW, what below zero bag is best that costs under $500?
I don’t care if its a established name.
get a silk lining for in side the bag! keeps it clean and makes it a bit warmer.