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Testing the new sleeping bag
Recently bought a One Planet Nitrous -3 sleeping bag to use over the summer months, in its stuff sac with my silk liner it weighs 650 grams, it packs down really small and is a significant weight and space saving over my domex mountaineer which i will still use for the colder months.
To give it a good test the weekend gone in a roundabout way i climbed up onto the Ruahine tops above the Pourangaki river /Maungamahue . The weather was a bit a average on the saturday but with a southerly change sat afternoon it cleared up nicely and sunday was mint day after a cool start.
This area doesn't get much hunting pressure i suspect because of access issues into the Kelly Night hut areas so there were a few deer out and about, not mobs of deer but one there a couple over there, most were a fair distance 5 or 600 odd yds but i did see a couple of handy ones that i should have shot even just taking the back steaks only which i think is ok in these times of plenty, but with a long walk out around Maungamahue and down the Mania track i wasn't to worried . One young stag in particular was very lucky indeed as i had my rifle set up but fluffed around getting a photo and the stag walked over the ridge out of sight .
I was very pleased with my One Planet sleeping bag it was cool enough first thing sunday morning to need gloves and a warm coat but i was warm as toast in my new bag. Attachment 241249Attachment 241250Attachment 241251Attachment 241252Attachment 241253Attachment 241254Attachment 241255Attachment 241257
Young stag in that last photo was about 10 am and quite happy snozzing out in the sun .
