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 With the ultra 20 i tend to have a thin foam mat under it and just use a short prolite for the top half with the straps under the prolite but ontop of the foam works for me not been cold with it as yet.
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I have played with my new toy!! Very nice, i am going for the toe box on top first strap under mat and then the top one loose so i can get it snug around me. Can't say i am a convert but mat+bag is 1400grams. Ultra lights and insulated core bigagnes aircore.
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 I think I am going to sell mine - I just sleep too cold these days to really get the best out of it  ...which is a pity as it seems to work for everyone else  
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 havent been cold in mine yet. perhaps when you get old like Ed, you have to wrap up warmer?  The only thing i would say about it is that I find the design of the straps fiddly. I think I will remove mine and add my own design but other than that its a great bag/quilt
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 maybe being a porker helps with the insulation Dave 
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so how come you arent warm then Ed?  seriously though, I have yet to find a night when the quilt and a decent mat havent kept me warm. I guess a truer test would be Scotland in winter
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I just sleep cold now I am no longer 'well upholstered'
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 Ed, I suspect that you are still over adjusting to being less 'well upholstered'. What puts me off quilts is the though of getting a cold blast all down my backbone while sitting up to cook and eat breakfast.
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 I've been tempted into getting a quilt several times. The Nunatak and Jacks look interesting, but a more expensive. Is the Golite quilt available in the UK? I haven't seen it stocked by the usual suspects! Thanks David
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 Here but they call it a backless sleeping bag.
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Missed that. Thanks
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.JPG) I've used my ultra 20 for about 15 nights since August. With a TAR PL3 short, and bit of foam or pack under feet. I like it, and am comfortable with the concept now, but could't see it going down to -7C (even with full length foam as well). A couple of times in Scotland I needed my Photon Hoody over a baselayer. From the new specs below, you can see that Golite have respecced their quilts for next year.The 1+ season quilt(+4degC) has the same weight (560g) and fill (270g) as the current Ultra 20 (-7degC) - quite a difference. The 'new' 20 (-7C) is over 700g now... I read a US review where the quilt owner has ditched the straps and sewn on a 6" strip of nylon along both edges as a draught excluder (like the RayWay quilt design) I may do this with mine, and replace the tapes with flat cord and cordlocks
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Trying to upload decent sized image - my pc has it at 249kb, but OM reduces down when I upload...... I originally downloaded it as a pdf, but have lost the link...
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Hi there, I bought one just before the summer holidays and used it in the Alps and in Norway during July and August. I found it really versatile and it was easy to ventilate in the Alps where the night time temperatures were higher. The bag's rating is nowhere near -7 degrees, as I found out on several chilly nights on the Hardanger plateau. I think the new models seem to be more realistic with their ratings David
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