Hey guys looking for recommendations for sleeping bags. Preferably 0 degree bags and available in tall as I am 6'5.
Big agnus park series can't remember the name of the 0 degree bag . Long and wide enough to turn over. Somewhat light, but it has a pocket for your pad so you don't roll off and a pocket to keep you pillow in place. I sleep as good as home every night.
I find that thing so cold. There is so much air space since the insulation is pulled to the edges of your pad. Then you move and all your hot farts come out and ya gotta warm the thing up again. The bag wrapping all around you is worth what ever weight you may save with the BA. It is roomy but I have the 15 and when it hits 30 and I put on everything including rain gear on to try bringing up the r value. Also running the silver thermarest so I can't really add any more pad.Big agnus park series can't remember the name of the 0 degree bag . Long and wide enough to turn over. Somewhat light, but it has a pocket for your pad so you don't roll off and a pocket to keep you pillow in place. I sleep as good as home every night.
Have you run that down bag with a bivy? I worry about it getting just a little wet every night and being cold a few days into the hunt. No clue how down works in the real world and you always hear horror stories about it getting wet.Don’t even mess around, go straight for a western mountaineering bag and don’t look back.
I find that thing so cold. There is so much air space since the insulation is pulled to the edges of your pad. Then you move and all your hot farts come out and ya gotta warm the thing up again. The bag wrapping all around you is worth what ever weight you may save with the BA. It is roomy but I have the 15 and when it hits 30 and I put on everything including rain gear on to try bringing up the r value. Also running the silver thermarest so I can't really add any more pad.
Not implying you don't like it, just advocating for the devil a little.
Have you run that down bag with a bivy? I worry about it getting just a little wet every night and being cold a few days into the hunt. No clue how down works in the real world and you always hear horror stories about it getting wet.
i'm looking for a 0 degree bag as well. I think i'm gonna try making one myself. I'm gonna use climashield apex 10oz and make a quilt. it seems easy enough and is only gonna cost me $120. if i don't like it i can buy a down bag later but the money for a high end down bag from katabatic or western mountaineering is steep.
Have you run that down bag with a bivy? I worry about it getting just a little wet every night and being cold a few days into the hunt. No clue how down works in the real world and you always hear horror stories about it getting wet.
I didn't realize they made 2 silver pads. I am running the R 5.7 one@308
Thermarest's Z-lite Sol weighs 14oz but only has an R value of R 2.6, hardly what I would call a winter pad. The fact that it is reflective silver doesn't overrule the low R value.
Thermarest's rectangular Neo Air X-therm, weighs 3 oz more but offers more than 2x the warmth with an R value of R 5.7.
Using a Z lite in cold weather you will continually lose heat to the ground when it's cold, An R-2.6 pad will make your winter bag seem (and be) less effective than it could be.
JL