When sleeping in cooler weather, I also wear a wool or alpaca beanie and recently started using down socks/ booties under my quilt. The pair is well-worth the extra 2 oz to me. I¡¯m wondering about others¡¯ experiences with down hoods/ balaclavas for use with either quilts or sleeping bags that don¡¯t have hoods?
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18oz quilt with NeoAir inside bivy (bug bivy in season). ?Extended temp range comfortably to 20 degrees using hooded puffy, insulated pants and down booties. ?This gives me summer and three season options and allows me to drop weight easily. ?I am also too active a sleeper for a sleeping bag.
On Mar 16, 2022, at 4:38 PM, Rick <rick@...> wrote:
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I have a UGQ Bandit 20 degree top quilt which I use with a Nemo
Tensor. I am a stomach sleeper and have actually slept quite
comfortably at 20 degrees. (and I am also a "cold" sleeper.) I
cannot use a sleeping bag because they are too confining. On more
temperate nights I like to stick my feet out of the "covers" and
quilts make this easy.
My backpacking experiences started years without a pad, just a
ground cloth, even in the High Sierras. I am older now with tired
bones and I have grown use to sleeping in comfort. I love my quilt
and my Tensor.
On 3/16/2022 4:14 PM, Mike B wrote:
I too have both quilts and bags. I am a side /
stomach sleeper that moves a fair amount and I sleep cold. I use
a bag when temps are below freezing and use a quilt otherwise.
Being a cold and mobile sleeper my pad is always insulated and
my sleep clothes are wool base layers and I wear a hat always. I
also use bags / quilts that are rated below anticipated temps.
Temps in the 40¡¯s would be a 10 or 15 degree quilt, temps on the
30¡¯s would be a 15 degree bag or I have used a 0 degree quilt
(still cold though), temps 0 to minus -5 would be a minus -20
bag. Anything colder then that and I start to wonder why I am
out. Lately I have started sleeping with my puffy jacket and I
have been warmer it seems to cut down on the drafts around my
shoulders. Hot water bottles help as well.?
Mike
I
have both a quilt and a sleeping bag. Several bags,
actually. The main advantage of the quilt is that it's
lighter. The secondary advantage is that it is less
confining.
The main disadvantage is that it is more prone to leak warm
air when you move around than a zipped up bag. And unless
your quilt has a hood or is extra long it's harder to keep
your head and face warm in really cold weather.
But in the context of the JMT, from June-September, it's
quilt all the way for me.
--
"The time is at hand when
you will have forgotten everything; and the time
is at hand when all will have forgotten you.
Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and
nowhere."
Marcus Aurelius
