Thread: Looking for new lightweight high performance sleeping bag?

With the boys getting into hunting we need a third bag. Currently have a Kathmandhu Moonraker (v.warm, little bulky), and a Sea to Summit Micro MCIII.

The MCIII is super light, and compacts well with 850+ down.

Looking for some similar but perhaps a little warmer. Any recommendations?

Next one up the list from the micro 3? Or add a liner

Yep but there are 3 of us, so chance to get a new one. Kuiu and Feathered Friends look good.

If you want super light, quilts are the business. My -7 rated quilt is 550 grams.
Convert | Ultralight Quilt-Style Sleeping Bag for Backpacking, Hiking | Enlightened Equipment
this is a hybrid bag/quilt. Look pretty cool

Or get a zpacks bag

547grams for a -7

Quilts are interesting! Prefer a bag though, water resistant too. Zpacks look good. I quite like the look of the Kuiu 15 Super Down Sleeping Bag: 15 Degree Sleeping Bag | KUIU and if you watch the video you can see the stretch in the material. Quite a difference in $ with Zpacks much cheaper for similar temp.

Mont Bell make good bags. Water resistant down is a load of shit by the way, it lasts a short while which is enough to sell it to people.

The kuiu bag will come in close to $1000NZD.

Originally Posted by K95

Mont Bell make good bags. Water resistant down is a load of shit by the way, it lasts a short while which is enough to sell it to people.

Rubbish...A couple of months ago I borrowed a Fairydown Down bag from 1977(Roughly). It still worked a treat!

Yep seems too good to be true...a water resistant shell is better...quite surprised how well the Moonraker sheds water. Mont Bell do make good gear what I have seen but don't have any personally.

exped do water resistant outers, waterblock its called

mont bell is hard to get in NZ now that iclimb arent distributing it

Originally Posted by scoped

mont bell is hard to get in NZ now that iclimb arent distributing it

Yeah, I think torpedo7 snaked the import/distribution from iclimb but they hardly stock anything. Maybe they were more interested in trying to squeeze out a competitor than actually selling the stuff.

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Yeah, I think torpedo7 snaked the import/distribution from iclimb but they hardly stock anything. Maybe they were more interested in trying to squeeze out a competitor than actually selling the stuff.

Mont Bell is piece of piss to get into NZ. Order direct off their US site. Reasonable shipping charges (free last time I bought a sleeping bag IIRC) and have a club card deal thing so you get the occasional cheap offer and discount pricing.

Why not a booster for current bag? Sea to summit do them

There are me and 2 boys, so chance to get another bag... - wife bought that story so am running with it. Zpacks hard to beat, and mate going to the States in a few weeks.