Overdoing it?

[IrishnId]

I've got a Mountain Goat hunt starting soon, and we've been slammed with some early snows. I was going to use a twenty degree bag with a bivy sack over it inside a floorless tent. I'm now going to go to a 0 bag with a better bivy sack over it on top of a medium range insulated pad. But the weight gain is almost 4 lbs. Still keeps my pack under 36 lbs for 4 days. Am going overboard?

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[jherald]

I would look at it more like how good do I want to sleep? I've skimped on sleeping bag/pad setup to try and shave weight off my kit and regretted it with tossing and turning cold sleep all night long and feeling like absolute garbage every day during a backcountry hunt.

The bag I normally take on colder hunts now is a good down bag made with dri-down rated to 15 degrees, a Thermarest NeoAir X-Therm pad and a Outdoor Research Helium Bivy. With that combo running the insulated pad and the bivy I've been pretty warm on colder hunt.

Good sleep on a cold hunt is gold.

 

[justinspicher]

Good sleep on a cold hunt is gold.

I couldn't agree more!