Quilt Instead of Sleeping Bag
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The snugpack is only £50 so I'm going to get one and use it as a quilt. Dunelm Mill sells a fleecy type material which may do for any extra insulation.
I normally sleep in the back of the Landy using a down domestic quilt, but I have made a hammock that I thought I would try this year.
The snugpack is only £50 so I'm going to get one and use it as a quilt. Dunelm Mill sells a fleecy type material which may do for any extra insulation.
I normally sleep in the back of the Landy using a down domestic quilt, but I have made a hammock that I thought I would try this year.
william# said:
Not at the moment. it is a SWB but I'm only 5' 7" so I can sleep across the diagonal of the rear by slotting 9mm ply in over the seats. There is room for me and a small cocker spaniel.
i remember a few years ago when a few i and a few of my friends decided to go camping for the weekend up north one autumn, that one of the lads couldn't find his sleeping bag so decided to take the quilt right off his bed 
it was a clear night (infact so clear we could see what looked like stars shoot across the sky real fast, we came to the conclusion that they must have been satellites!! any info??) so got pretty cold during the night. none of us got a good nights sleep as our crappy sleeping bags were useless apart from the quilt user! infact so sound was his sleep that we had to wake him up late every morning to get up, slept through breakfast and everything. i can see the temptation of a quilt now!! 
regards
james
it was a clear night (infact so clear we could see what looked like stars shoot across the sky real fast, we came to the conclusion that they must have been satellites!! any info??) so got pretty cold during the night. none of us got a good nights sleep as our crappy sleeping bags were useless apart from the quilt user! infact so sound was his sleep that we had to wake him up late every morning to get up, slept through breakfast and everything. i can see the temptation of a quilt now!! regards
james
nobby said:
Many years ago, my wife and I bought two down/feather filled sleeping bags. They were of the kind that could be completely unzipped -so that the bag could be opened out to make a quilt/duvet, or zipped together to make a double sleeping bag (for two people). I'd guess that these bags on their own would be good for about a 2/3 'season' rating. They're obviously no substitute for a proper cocoon/mummy type sleeping bag for colder, more extreme conditions, but over 20+ years they've proved to be very useful and versatile. I used mine again just this weekend.
Burnt Ash
nobby said:
I often use Hudson Bay blankets in the summer, and last year I found down comforters on sale for $15. I purchased three of them and have used them for camping. Very nice!
Stu, Sounds like you got a Nonok Endurance 0deg same as me. I to bought this for the width. The first time I used it it was -5deg. I was on a closed cell mat at the time. Couldn't get to sleep, the more clothes I put on the colder I got, or so it seemed.
Second time out, last month, I had bought a Gelert self inflating mat, But at 50cm wide my hips and shoulders were cold as they were pressing against side of hammock with only compressed bag for insulation. I even borrowed a reindeer skin the second night and eventually put that under my shoulders, but it moved in the night.
So after some thought have decided to see if I could get Snugpak to make a underblanket for hammock along similar lines to Kick ***quilts one. At the moment this is ongoing. See group buy. This won't move in night. will have plenty of insulation to keep me warm in winter and if it is a bit too warm in summer just leave sleeping bag open or even do without. This is the theory anyway.
Ian.
Second time out, last month, I had bought a Gelert self inflating mat, But at 50cm wide my hips and shoulders were cold as they were pressing against side of hammock with only compressed bag for insulation. I even borrowed a reindeer skin the second night and eventually put that under my shoulders, but it moved in the night.
So after some thought have decided to see if I could get Snugpak to make a underblanket for hammock along similar lines to Kick ***quilts one. At the moment this is ongoing. See group buy. This won't move in night. will have plenty of insulation to keep me warm in winter and if it is a bit too warm in summer just leave sleeping bag open or even do without. This is the theory anyway.
Ian.
for the past 2 years i have used a U.S.M.C gortex bivy bag, thermarest and softie9, (not a 6 anymore getting old and feeling the cold, )never had any trouble, even in heavy rain,CLEM said:
I have the same problem being of the 'larger' build
My way round it is to put a cotton liner over my therm a rest, open my sleeping bag out and bung the whole lot in a gore tex army bivi bag.
Not the most lightweight of outfits but the bivi bag is a lot more roomy than the sleeping bag and i have never been cold yet....and i LOVE being warm at night.
(once used a -15 rated bag at a rock festival in June!) 
My way round it is to put a cotton liner over my therm a rest, open my sleeping bag out and bung the whole lot in a gore tex army bivi bag.
Not the most lightweight of outfits but the bivi bag is a lot more roomy than the sleeping bag and i have never been cold yet....and i LOVE being warm at night.
(once used a -15 rated bag at a rock festival in June!)
I have one of these
http://www.littlewoods-online.com/r...item_id=15&Mis_item_loc_id=1&product=16579149
its a BIG sleeping bag, and warm
http://www.littlewoods-online.com/r...item_id=15&Mis_item_loc_id=1&product=16579149
its a BIG sleeping bag, and warm
I have a compact sleeping bag, but I also splashed out last year and bought one of these cashmere blankets. It was expensive, but from this store not too bad compared to normal high street. So I layer that on myself like a sarong and then get into the sleeping bag and I feel like I'm living in the lap of luxury, no matter where I am. I'm not much of a survival fiend I guess, I just like the great outdoors and I'm not ashamed of a few luxury comforts!
