Thread: Sleeping Bags - Down or Dacron (synthetic)

Again experts - what are your recommendations for Top Quality Bags

I prefer Down - but to be honest probably done better long run with Synthetic Bags
Prefer wide rectangular Bag over Mummy Style Bag

So desires are:

Lightweight
Compact
Prefer full Zip so can be used at home as Duvet for extra bedding (or if used in a hut/house away and summer temps etc)
Water resistant (mainly from condensation from tent/fly)
No pretty colours :-)

To be used in what conditions? 3 season, winter etc

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Originally Posted by Sarvo

Again experts - what are your recommendations for Top Quality Bags

I prefer Down - but to be honest probably done better long run with Synthetic Bags
Prefer wide rectangular Bag over Mummy Style Bag

So desires are:

Lightweight
Compact
Prefer full Zip so can be used at home as Duvet for extra bedding (or if used in a hut/house away and summer temps etc)
Water resistant (mainly from condensation from tent/fly)
No pretty colours :-)

Main condensation may well be from your body. Down "best" insulator for its weight, but loses that title fast on getting moist/wet. If you depend on it in extremes, have vapour barriers outside and inside of bag, or the down will evt get wet - unless of course you can dry it in the morning. Synthetic insulators are more forgiving.

Just got a Mont bell burrow #3 synthetic, worth a look

Originally Posted by Kooza

Just got a Mont bell burrow #3 synthetic, worth a look

Yea - been looking at them - good prices too

spend $15 at the warehouse and buy a liner whatever you go with....Ive used synthetic for years and are a very warm sleeper so sleep head and shouders out most times .gone to down as just so much smaller inside a pack,if you get into them cold it wont matter how good they are you will still be cold.
personally I believe a liner ups rating by about 5 degrees on any bag.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

spend $15 at the warehouse and buy a liner whatever you go with....Ive used synthetic for years and are a very warm sleeper so sleep head and shouders out most times .gone to down as just so much smaller inside a pack,if you get into them cold it wont matter how good they are you will still be cold.
personally I believe a liner ups rating by about 5 degrees on any bag.

Are you talking like a fleece liner of some kind? Or a cheap second $15 sleeping bag? I looked on the warehouse and the sleeping bag was the only thing i could find that i think you mean?

Great fèed back on this and the tent thread.
Much appreciated and deff big assist on da tents

I would go with a Quilt, https://enlightenedequipment.com/revelation/

You can get a really warm one which is half the weight of a normal sleeping bag

Originally Posted by hotsoup

I would go with a Quilt, https://enlightenedequipment.com/revelation/

You can get a really warm one which is half the weight of a normal sleeping bag

Got any photo's for size comparison when packed down?

Originally Posted by Nibblet

Got any photo's for size comparison when packed down?

Not yet, to be fair I haven't got mine yet. From the research I've done they're the bee's knees if you're wanting to cut down on size and weight. I'll have a more experienced opinion on the bag in a few weeks! Maybe I'll do a review

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Not yet, to be fair I haven't got mine yet. From the research I've done they're the bee's knees if you're wanting to cut down on size and weight. I'll have a more experienced opinion on the bag in a few weeks! Maybe I'll do a review

Please do, I'm always looking for ways to unnecessarily burn money

Originally Posted by Nibblet

Please do, I'm always looking for ways to unnecessarily burn money

Haha, I'm on the same boat! Got to burn it on something

Originally Posted by hotsoup

Not yet, to be fair I haven't got mine yet. From the research I've done they're the bee's knees if you're wanting to cut down on size and weight. I'll have a more experienced opinion on the bag in a few weeks! Maybe I'll do a review

Are You planning to run this with an xtherm?

Originally Posted by Nibblet

Are You planning to run this with an xtherm?

Yeah that's the one. I originally had a curved shaped Neo Air. Since upgraded to the Xtherm square shape which I find far more comfortable. Not much weight difference either.

Hoping the xtherm + quilt combo will work well, being that the Xtherm is meant to be 4season. Going by my research it should work well... @Nibblet